EYE ON VEDIC HOLIDAYS: GURU PURNIMA AND JULY 10TH FULL MOON
The primary full moon after the summer season solstice may be very auspicious spiritually, and it happens through the fifteenth lunar day, which runs July 10TH UNTIL ABOUT 1500 EDT on Thursday within the Jap US. It’s a very auspicious time to obtain grace from the Guru or the Huge Thoughts. A beautiful time to learn non secular literature and do puja to your Guru. A superb time to donate to non secular masters and their colleges, supporting non secular data. Meditation and pujas completed on Guru Purnima are notably highly effective.
When you don’t have a Guru, it’s a day to honor our academics. Our first trainer was our mom, after which our faculty academics, and possibly our native priest, after which our faculty mentors. Take time to fondly bear in mind all of those that introduced you out of ignorance with deep love and gratitude.
Komilla Sutton discusses the significance of the Guru and says: Gu means darkness, Ru means Dispel, eradicate. Guru means the one who dispels the darkness of ignorance. A guru is a non secular trainer who reveals the aspirant the trail to increased data. He brings mild to his disciples by displaying them the means to search out the everlasting mild. Non secular gurus are seen as a bridge between the person and the divine, and due to this fact maintain nice significance in Vedic philosophy. Gurus open the eyes of the aspirant to their increased self and present them the divine mild the place they, the aspirants, could have been struggling in darkness. Subsequently, honored and revered for hundreds of years greater than some other particular person, as solely the Guru can present the aspirant a path again to the divine and convey them from darkness to mild.
Guru Purnima is the day on which one expresses one’s gratitude to 1’s Guru. In India, for 1000’s of years, the Full moon in Sagittarius after the summer season solstice is well known in honor of the divine gurus. Ved Vyasa is considered the Guru of all Gurus and the Guru Purnima is devoted to him. Vyasa edited the 4 Vedas and wrote the 18 Puranas, the Mahabharata, and the Srimad Bhagavata. He additionally taught Dattatreya, who unfold Vyasa’s data to the opposite gurus.”
The historical past of Guru Purnima is fascinating. Sarabini Rath discusses it says:
” In yogic lore, it’s mentioned that Guru Purnima was the day that noticed Shiva change into the Adi Guru or the primary Guru. The story goes that over 15,000 years in the past, a yogi appeared within the Himalayas. His presence was extraordinary, and folks gathered. Nevertheless, he exhibited no indicators of life, however for the occasional tears of ecstasy that rolled down his face. Folks started to float away, however seven males stayed on. When he opened his eyes, they pleaded with him, eager to expertise no matter was occurring to him. He dismissed them, however they persevered. Lastly, he gave them a easy preparatory step and closed his eyes once more. The seven males started to organize. Days rolled into weeks, weeks into months, months into years, however the yogi’s consideration didn’t fall upon them once more. After 84 years of sadhana, the yogi checked out them once more. They’d change into shining receptacles, splendidly receptive. He couldn’t ignore them anymore. On the very subsequent full moon day, the yogi turned south and sat as a guru to those seven males. Shiva, the Adiyogi (the primary yogi) thus grew to become the Adi Guru. Adiyogi expounded on these mechanics of life for a few years. The seven disciples grew to become celebrated because the Saptarishis and took this information the world over. Guru Purnima is held sacred within the yogic custom as a result of the Adiyogi opened up the chance for a human being to evolve consciously. The seven totally different facets of yoga that have been put in these seven people grew to become the muse for the seven fundamental types of yoga, one thing that has nonetheless endured.”(From Sarabini Rath).
So take a break day, take pleasure in deep meditation and celebration, and spend time together with your non secular group.
I’ll go away you with a lovely quote from one of many nice non secular academics from my non secular custom, Swami Brahmanada Saraswati Jagaguru Bhavan Shankaracharya of Jyoti Math:
To get a human physique is a uncommon factor. Make full use of it. There are 4 million sorts of lives {that a} soul can collect. After that, one will get an opportunity to be human. To get a human physique, due to this fact, one shouldn’t waste the prospect. When you don’t worth this, then you may be left with nothing in hand and you’ll weep in the long run.
Since you are human, God has given you the facility to suppose and determine good and unhealthy. Subsequently it’s best to by no means contemplate your self a weak or fallen creature. No matter could have occurred thus far could also be since you didn’t know, however now watch out…after getting human, should you don’t attain God, then you’ve gotten bought a diamond for the worth of spinach.
So particular due to Komilla Sutton, Sarabini Rath, and all my non secular Gurus!
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