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Guru Purnima 2025 - Celebration from Om Ashram
Guru Purnima marks the day to honor the spiritual teacher who dispels darkness and reveals the divine light.
The teacher’s darshan is celebrated once a year, yet the teacher remains constantly present through given knowledge, mantra initiation, and the path shown. Human birth is rare and obtained with difficulty; the world is an ocean of sorrow. The teacher acts as a mediator, holding the seeker’s hand to unite with the supreme. The syllable “Gu” means darkness of ignorance, and “Ru” means light; the teacher removes worldly darkness and bestows spiritual illumination. On this occasion, a resolve must be taken to abandon past misdeeds and harm no one through mind, action, or speech. Love for all beings must be cultivated. The mantra given by the teacher must be practiced daily for light to enter life. Satsang, bhajan singing, and chanting Om circulate divine energy and remove mental impurities. Essential human qualities include knowledge, character, endurance, charity, self-restraint, and virtue. Religion is a garden of diverse flowers, each with its own fragrance, offering harmony and peace. Gathering physically demonstrates devotion beyond digital convenience. The teacher’s path leads from mortality to immortality, from falsehood to truth. All who follow with faith cross the worldly ocean. The teacher came to every land to liberate seekers. Receiving such a master makes life blessed.
“Gu-kāra means darkness. What does Gurudev do? He takes out the light from this world’s darkness and unites us with Paramātmā.”
“I take the determination from today that I will not harm anyone with any kind of mind, karma, or promise.”
Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India
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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
