Guru: The Rarest Life Treasure
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Guru: The Rarest Life Treasure is the second book of the Guruvakya Meditations series that is designed to help you deepen your inner relationship with the Divine Source, which you might know as Krishna, Christ, God, Divine Mother, or, as is the focus of this book, the Guru or spiritual Master. In this volume, you’ll get 365 Guruvakyas so you can use a different insight each day of the year. Use them for the five-minute 3-Step Guruvakya Meditation described inside, and you’ll quickly deepen your unique connection with the source of Divine Love, the indweller of your heart, your Guru. Paramahamsa Vishwananda is an enlightened spiritual Master who has the unique ability to awaken the soul’s inner Light and Love, helping us all advance more quickly toward the ultimate goal of life. Naturally being a living example of the focus of this book, His personal connection to ‘the Guru of all Gurus’, Mahavatar Babaji, is profound and timeless.
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Guru: The Rarest Life Treasure
Bhakti Marga Publications
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First Edition, English
ISBN: 978-3-940381-61-3
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GURUVAKYA MEDITATIONS COLLECTION
Guru
THE RAREST LIFE TREASURE
A SELECTION OF 365 INSIGHTS
BY PARAMAHAMSA VISHWANANDA
1DEDICATION TO OUR BELOVED GURU
All praises to our beloved Satgurudev, Paramahamsa Vishwananda, whose words are like precious gems. Priceless beyond measure, they fill every desire of our eager souls that long for truly limitless Love.
Yasya jñānādidaṁ viśvaṁ
na dṛśyaṁ bhinna bhedataḥ
Sadeka rūpa rūpāya
tasmai śrī gurave namaḥ
Salutations to the Guru by whose knowledge this creation is no longer seen as different from the Supreme Lord Himself whose form is Truth.
SRI GURU GITA, VERSE 39
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Dedication to our Beloved Guru
About Paramahamsa Sri Swami Vishwananda
Preface
Note from the Editors
INTRODUCTION
The Soul’s Call
The Meaning of the Word ‘Guru’
Why do we Need a Guru?
The True Guru Finds the Sincere Seeker
How do we Recognise our True Guru?
The Roles of the Guru and the Disciple
How to Use this Book
THE CORE OF THIS GURUVAKYA MEDITATION
Developing Your Connection
The Surrender of the Mind
The Supreme Form of the Guru
The Power of the Name of Narayana
How to Get the Most out of the Guruvakya Meditation
The 3-Step Guruvakya Meditation
Mahavatar Babaji, the Guru of Gurus
365 GURUVAKYAS ABOUT THE GURU
Guru: A Servant of Mankind
The Eternal Love Relationship
The Divine Nature of the Guru
The Love of the Guru
The Word of the Guru
The Grace of the Guru
Love, Devotion, and Service to the Guru
Surrender to the Guru
RESOURCES
ABOUT BHAKTI MARGA
Paramahamsa Sri Swami Vishwananda is a fully realised spiritual Master, whose international mission, is known as 'Bhakti Marga', the path of devotion. He travels the world to encourage all people to recognise the universal Love that lies within each human being, and to awaken their innate ability to express that Love in their daily lives.
Effortlessly connecting principles of eastern spirituality with elements of western spiritual tradition, Paramahamsa Vishwananda reveals the underlying oneness of the Divine and inspires a unique experience of spirituality, regardless of culture, religion, gender or age.
The simple yet transformational spiritual practices he teaches are designed to help each individual move toward more peaceful and inspired life experiences. Accessing the wisdom of the heart, these practices help change the way you relate to yourself, others and the world around you.
Giving Darshans and Satsangs tirelessly as he travels throughout the year, Paramahamsa Vishwananda introduces simple but profound concepts in a very personal way, answering questions about love, life, death, healing, and faith.
Most recently, his commentaries on supplementary Vedic texts and on the Shreemad Bhagavad Gita, one of the most popular sacred Hindu scriptures in the world, help a worldwide audience gain a deeper understanding of the universal messages they contain, and make ancient wisdom accessible and applicable to contemporary life.
PREFACE
What are you searching for?
Everybody goes through life, consciously or unconsciously, in an unavoidable quest for love and happiness. The real question is: how many people really achieve everlasting love and happiness in their lives? Very few.
In the physical plane, everything has a dual nature and nothing lasts forever. Everything on Earth has a beginning and an end, but most often, human beings ignore this impermanent and transitory nature of life. They take their existence for granted, rely on earthly things for temporary satisfactions, and unknowingly doom themselves to continual suffering in a perpetual vicious cycle. They keep turning around and around and around, unaware, and without a true sense of direction or purpose in life.
Since time immemorial, Masters have come on Earth to remind us of our divine nature and of the true purpose of our existence: to realise the eternal Love relationship of our soul with the Supreme Soul (commonly referred to as Creator, God, Divine Source), even while living on Earth. Only then can one be truly happy, feeling in continuous connection with this Divine Love and supreme bliss at every moment, wherever one is, whatever one is doing.
Today, millions of people are actually searching for a new direction in life. When this longing reaches a point where people start searching sincerely, and are willing to purify and transform themselves, God appears before them, in flesh and blood, in the form of the Guru.
Although a true Guru, a Satguru, is a great mystery that human minds can’t fathom, we can say that the Guru is a pure embodiment of Divine Love, a manifestation of the Divine Consciousness. It’s a sacred universal phenomenon, where the Supreme Divine Source descends on Earth and lives in a body to be close to human beings and to serve them.
The Guru has been often referred to as the Kalpataru or Kalpavriksha (wish-fulfilling tree), because the Guru fulfils people’s wishes and helps them to advance spiritually until they are ready for the fulfilment of the soul’s unique desire.
The Guru is also seen as the Philosopher’s Stone: a catalyst for transformation. This means that whomever comes in contact with the Guru begins to change from a human being into Divine. In fact, across all traditions, the Guru’s Grace has converted even great sinners into great saints, such as St. Paul (Christianity), Angulimala (Buddhism), and Valmiki (Hinduism), among many others.
Whether you have met your Guru or not, this book was designed to be a precious daily companion to help you to develop and strengthen your attunement to your inner Guru, your inner Self, so that you may fulfil your higher life purpose in the world.
It contains 365 sacred Guruvakyas (insights spoken or