YouTube
  Channel
 


Thought for the Day:

 


""
 
Paramahamsa Omkarananda Saraswati

 
 

Back to Contents

   

My most heartfelt Adorations to your blessed, divine feet!

You are nothing, if not direct manifestations of the omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient Divinity.

There is no one that is to be called as Guru unless he is rooted permanently in the experience of the infinite Truth. No one can be called a Guru unless he is rooted in the Consciousness of the absolute divine Joy, Peace, Perfection, Beauty, Freedom and infinite Truth.

Be such a Guru. This is the destiny of your life. This is the glory of your human existence here on earth. Arrive at this stage! The quintessence of the Holy Scriptures consists in the simple fact: "I die and God lives in me." There is no dying! The "I" disappears into the perfections of the infinite wondrous divine Consciousness. The human mind and heart and soul and consciousness are displaced by the Consciousness of the divine Being. It is no more the human individual that is seeing through the eyes of the person called Guru, but the Divine Itself. Such a person is sinless, he is uplifted above all limitations of human existence, perfectly established in the poise of the transcendent Reality. His mind is the Wisdom of God. His heart is the Love of God at operation. He is in tune with the whole creation. His speech is the speech of the Divine. His breath is the breath of the Divine. He has no existence apart from the Heart and Centre of the Divine.

He is a Devotee, he is a God-Lover, who is constantly established in the realization of the all-wondrous Being that God is. In his life unconditioned Happiness, unconditioned Peace, unconditioned Freedom are operative. There is nothing in this universe that could fulfill his existence, for his existence is united with the Perfections of the divine Being. Glory to such a person! This person's state and condition is the highest evolutionary status to which you have to rise.

It is a shame to die. That means, it is a shame to experience a phenomenon called death. There is no such thing as death for one, who is established in the Consciousness of God, the Eternal, the Immortal. He is always all-conscious, supra-conscious. He is established in Consciousness. He does not sleep. He is ever awake, ever joyous. He is face to face with the infinite wonders of God. Blessed is the life of such a person. Such a person can lead mankind towards Truth and God-experience. It is such a person that becomes the vessel for the revelations and intuitions and illuminations, embodied in the greatest scriptures of the world.

Blessed are those, that meet such persons. Blessed is the earth, which bears the presence of such persons. They are our best teachers. They condition our existence to the beatitudes of the divine nature and character. All life becomes a divine ecstasy in their presence. All life discloses in such presence its real face, the face of the divine Truth. All life assumes an infinite purpose and bears an infinite joy in the presence of such persons, such Gurus.

Any Guru, who falls short in the description hereon presented, does not deserve the name Guru. Humanity has to be critical, has to exercise the power of reason and judgement at every step of life, but a judgement, that is guided by Wisdom, Love, Devotion, Grace of God. God is pulsating everywhere within us, around us, above us, below us; everywhere He is pulsating with all the perfections of his Being.

We are sorrowless Beings. Problems of existence caused by the space-time universe and the circumstances of the human society rise and disappear like clouds leaving the sky unaffected. May there be a million clouds, but nothing touches the space, contaminates the space. Space is not air to be contaminated. Space is untouchable, it cannot be defiled. It is the subtlest principle open to our senses' experience. Subtler than the space is the Divine and resident in the space is the Divine. The eyes of the Divine are everywhere. The protecting hand of the Divine is upon your blessed heads. You are blessed. Adorations to you. Realize spiritual greatness! Do not come down! Do not descend from highest standards of existence. Material goods do not make high standards of life. It is the imperishable treasures of the heart, it is the endless and inexhaustible treasures of the luminous and all-enlightened Intelligence within us, it is these, that raise the standard of our existence.

Look at yourself always in terms of the Infinite. See with the eyes of God! See with the eyes of Wisdom! Work with Love! Be ensouled by Love! Even as you are possessed by anger, be possessed by Love. Be moved by Love, impelled by Love. Be impelled by Devotion. It is the finest emotion known to the human nature. It is the liberating emotion. It is the uplifting emotion. It is the messenger that leads us to God-experience. Devotion is a mighty power. Develop devotion. Govern your daily existence by the Wisdom of God. Talk of the Infinite. Thus purify the tongue by talking of God. Purify the ear by hearing about the glories and the nature of God. Make the place, where you dwell, a heaven on earth, a powerful heaven, a heaven, where the living God is present, where God is supremely pleased in you, where God loves to dwell with you. God dwells with those, who love Him most.

Do not come down from your infinite strength, my dear friend. You have everything necessary here and now. You live, move and have your Being in God. You are rooted in the Divine, You must grow conscious of this Reality. You have no real reason, no real intelligence, no real vision, until you recognize this Truth, that you are inseparable from the all-functioning, operative presence of the infinite God.

Gurus are mirrors to your inner spiritual greatness. Their presence uplifts you, energizes you, elevates you, brings you closer to a close accessibility to the presence of the all-loving Divinity. My adorations and prostration to you.

Guru is one, who does not see a difference between himself and all other Beings. A man, who is governed by sensorial differences is no light, is no guide, is no wise man, is not a good contact for our daily life. He is no inspiration. He has to dwell in the nature of God and express it in life, in inner experience. He must behold God, whether he opens his eyes or closes his eyes, whether he is here or there. No matter where he is, he is directly in the Heart of God. There are all heavenly Beings present, there God dwells. This is the assurance of God Himself! This is the experience of the real Gurus, Teachers and Spiritual Masters and Saints and Sages and Mystics and Yogis and Mahatmas.

May the Grace of God flow through your blessed hearts! May the Grace and Beauty and Sweetness and Love and Wisdom and Life of God throb in your veins!

God is the only Mother of mothers, the real Mother and the Mother of all mothers. He is the Sweetness of sweetness, Tenderness of tenderness. He is the Quintessence of Compassion. He is not blind. You are blind. Yet you can become by His Grace a seeing person. Acquire this grace, grow in spirituality, evolve! You are bodiless, you are spaceless. Such is the nature of the Consciousness. Even through psychological techniques, psychological self-analysis you can arrive at this fact, that Consciousness is beyond and above the body's eating habits. Live as Consciousness, not as a dead matter, not as a perishing body.

Live as a Consciousness, a Consciousness, that is luminous, that cannot be touched, that is subtler than the space, that cannot be cut, that cannot be burdened with daily problems, while all problems dissolve themselves, when they touch Consciousness. Consciousness is Wisdom of God, Knowledge of God, Fire of God, Light of God. Light is the nature of God. He is the supreme Light, the Light of all lights known to our experience. You are Light; that Light, Divine Light. Each of you is the Divine Light Centre! As such, I give you my adorations and prostrations.

The word Guru is fantastic, because it signifies a force, a factor that removes darkness. It is a principle of the Divine that illuminates and liberates you. That is Guru. Guru is an embodiment of infinite divine Knowledge. He liberates you from human conditions, unites you with the Heart of God, makes you divine, purely by knowledge, dynamic knowledge, divine knowledge, a knowledge which is experienced the moment you know and experience, that you are not the body but the timeless Spirit of God, indestructible, all-perfect, all-fulfilled, the fullness of Joy, the fullness of Wisdom, of all Arts and Sciences, or all forms of Joy.

The moment you know yourself as the infinite Truth, you are liberated, you are free from all limitations to which time and space condition you, to which the birth in human life conditions you, freed from the limitations of human mind and heart and will.

Knowledge is Power, Wisdom is Power. Wisdom is the Liberator. Wisdom is the eternal Life-giver. Guru gives you Wisdom. Where there is Wisdom, there is Light. The nature of Wisdom is Light, it is Knowledge, it is Consciousness. The nature of Consciousness is Light. By Light, Guru illuminates you.

Guru, the Remover of darkness, the Illuminator, the Enlightener - such a Being is in perfect Union and Communion with God.

Back to Contents

Copyright

Copyright © 2025 Omkarananda Ashram Himalayas. All Rights Reserved by Omkarananda Ashram Himalayas.
Send mail to omkara@oah.in with questions or comments.