Guidance And Growth...............Only from Guruji.
When people do not have a guide, they wander around bumping into each other. They can't see the consequences of their actions. They perform good, bad and mixed actions and don't keep on the right track and therefore end up wandering around in circles. They don't listen to their mothers. They don't listen to their fathers. They don't listen to their spiritual Gurus. They don't listen to their local religious mentors. But they do listen to the hottest rock star, to their drug dealer and their gang leader.
Unfortunately, some children are raised by their parents these days to not listen to anyone. "Don't ask me. Make up your own mind," they are told, "I just want you to be happy." Children are raised to be confused. They are raised to be loners in a complicated world. They are raised to be lower-consciousness people. And in many schools they are raised to become educated criminals. Let's get back to the basics of raising children properly, giving them proper guidance. It is the duty of the parents to raise their children properly, and it is the duty of the parents to follow the guidance of the Guru, to see that they do it.
It is the duty of the disciple/devotee to be responsive to the Satguru and not resistive. I was very much impressed at Nimishananda Ashram ,I was privileged and graced by my Guruji, to visit couple of months ago with how responsive everybody was to their Guru. The Guru there merely looks, and devotees ask, "What can I do to serve?" The guru speaks, and everyone immediately responds. No resisting: "I have something else to do. You already gave me ten things to do. How can you possibly want me to stop now and do something else? Isn't there somebody else around here who can do it?" I saw none of that there. Things were being done with perfect precision with divinity and devotion mixed with love and affection.
Each and every one was just on their good behaviour and conduct because it certainly took a lot of practice. They must have been practicing to be on their good behaviour and conduct under the guidance of the Guruji and made it a habit to behave and conduct good. Wonderful responsiveness. Because of such responsiveness, the connection between the disciple/devotee and the Guruji maintains a systematic growth, and the spiritual life comes up within the individual which breaks all routine and yet works within routine, is beyond all intellectual and reasoning abilities yet works within the intellect and through reason, is unpredictable yet predictable in that it is consistently unpredictable.
However, we must remember that blind obedience is never the spiritual way. It is intelligent cooperation that is the binding force in a well-run ashram. Intelligent cooperation means obtaining an extremely clear understanding of what is requested to be done before proceeding. Often this requires asking questions, discussing the direction or project, as one would do in a modern corporation, then, once all is understood, making the Guru's direction your own direction. This is intelligent cooperation, not blind obedience. Those are the spiritual qualities that was found in all connected with the ashram and which are manifesting in disciples/devotees in the ashram.
The divine secret behind all these best qualities in devotees/disciples is..................................................................... only because of the guidance from Gurugi towards divine growth.
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