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The Fruit of the Guru's Word
A spiritual discourse on the importance of the Satguru and the power of a saint's darśan.
"The most terrible incident... is that a human will leave this body, i.e., will die. If a person dies without self-realization, then there will be no worse event than this."
"By seeing the Satguru, the darkness of ignorance, anger, lust, and greed, etc., is dispelled... and that soul gets ultimate peace."
A spiritual teacher delivers a satsang, emphasizing that life's ultimate failure is to die without self-realization, which is only averted by faithfully following a true Guru. He explains the Guru as a dispeller of ignorance and narrates an extended parable where the sage Nārada learns that even a single glance from a saint can liberate a soul across multiple lifetimes, from hell to a royal birth. The discourse concludes with a shorter tale illustrating the importance of obeying the Guru's word.
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The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:
- Yoga in Daily Life - The System
Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. Ibera Verlag, Vienna, 2000. ISBN 978-3-85052-000-3 - The Hidden Power in Humans - Chakras and Kundalini
Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. Ibera Verlag, Vienna, 2004. ISBN 978-3-85052-197-0 - Lila Amrit - The Divine Life of Sri Mahaprabhuji
Paramhans Swami Madhavananda. Int. Sri Deep Madhavananda Ashram Fellowship, Vienna, 1998. ISBN 3-85052-104-4
