HAPPY GURU PURNIMA!
21 Comments Published by Madhukar Organisation on Monday, July 6, 2009 at 7:26 AM.
Mere Gurudev, charanon par sumana shraddha ke arpita hai
Tere hee dena hai jo hai. Wahi tujha ko samarapita hai
My Gurudev I offer these flowers of my faith at your feet
Whatever I have, you have given to me, and I dedicate it all to you.
Na priti hai pratiti hai, na hi puja ki shakti hai
Meraa yaha man, meraa yaha tan, meraa kan kan samarapita hai
I have no love, nor do I know you.
I don`t even have the strength to worship you,
But this mind of mine, this body of mine,
my every atom is dedicated to you.
Tuma hee ho bhaava men mere, vicharon mein, pukaron mein.
Banaale yantra ab mujhko mere saravatra samarapita hai
You are the only one in my heart and my thoughts.
You are the one who I call out to.
Now Make me your instrument; all I am I offer to you
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Looking for your Face - Rumi
4 Comments Published by Madhukar Organisation on Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 2:20 AM.
From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it.
Today I have seen
the charm, the beauty,
the unfathomable grace
of the face
that I was looking for.
Today I have found you
and those that laughed
and scorned me yesterday
are sorry that they were not looking
as I did.
I am bewildered by the magnificence
of your beauty
and wish to see you with a hundred eyes.
My heart has burned with passion
and has searched forever
for this wondrous beauty
that I now behold.
I am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of God
to call it divine.
Your fragrant breath
like the morning breeze
has come to the stillness of the garden
You have breathed new life into me
I have become your sunshine
and also your shadow.
My soul is screaming in ecstasy
Every fiber of my being
is in love with you
Your effulgence
has lit a fire in my heart
and you have made radiant
for me
the earth and sky.
My arrow of love
has arrived at the target
I am in the house of mercy
and my heart
is a place of prayer.
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Kabir was a weaver, and when he was waving his shuttle back and forth the loom he was singing “Ram, Ram, Ram”.He attained liberation that way, simply while he was weaving. One day when he was weaving again, many people sat around him. Somebody asked him: “Oh Kabir, how to attain enlightenment?”. Kabir just kept on weaving. After a couple of minutes his shuttle fell on the floor. He was calling his disciple Kamal and said: “Kamal, bring a big lantern. My shuttle fell on the ground.”
Everybody in the room was puzzled over this. It was broad daylight and the sun was shining brightly. What does Kabir need a lantern for? Kamal brought the lantern and he found the shuttle which was laying directly at Kabirs foot. Kabir started weaving again. After some time the person who asked the question before said: “Kabir, you did not tell us yet how to attain entlightenment.” Kabir still did not answer.
Instead he again called Kamal and said: “There are so many people here. We have to feed them” . (In India there is a sweet dish called kava; milk is cooked for a long time and then is mixed with sugar). Kabir said: “Go now and prepare kava. Put lots of salt in it and let everybody have some”. Kamal did as he was told. He put lots of salt in the kava, was stirring it thoroughly and gave it out. Everybody was eating from it although ist was tasting salty. Kabir just kept on weaving and repeated constantly “Ram”. After a while the same man was asking: “Kabir, you still did not answer my question.”
“How do you get the idea that I did not answer your question?” Kabir asked. “Did you see Kamal? Do you believe he does not know that in broad daylight there is no lantern needed for searching a shuttle? Do you believe Kamal is not intelligent enough giving me the shuttle without looking for it with the lantern? Do you believe he does not know that kava is made with sugar and not with salt? When I said to give salt in the kava he could have thought: ‘Kabir is so old, he does not know what he is doing. I can give sugar into the kava and give this to the people.’ But instead he just did what I told him. That is the way to attain enlightenment. When somebody is serving his Guru in this way enlightenment comes to him.”
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the word Guru:
Gu
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Darkness
Birth and Death
free from Attributes
creates Maya and Gunas
Ru
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dispels darkness
destroy Birth and Death
formless
Parabrahman, transcends Maya and Gunas
Guru is composed of the syllables 'gu' and 'ru', the former signifying 'darkness', and the latter signifying 'the destroyer of that [darkness]', hence a guru is one characterized as someone who dispels spiritual ignorance (darkness), with spiritual illumination (light) -as per Advaya-Tãraka Upanishad (verse 16),
In the Gita, Krishna speaks to Arjuna of the importance of finding a guru: Acquire the transcendental knowledge from a Self-realized master by humble reverence, by sincere inquiry, and by service. The wise ones who have realized the Truth will impart the Knowledge to you.
Saints and poets in India have expressed the following views about the relationship between Guru and God:
Kabir: Guru and God both appear before me. To whom should I prostrate?
I bow before Guru who introduced God to me.
Brahmanand: It is my great fortune that I found Satguru, all my doubts are removed.
I bow before Guru. Guru's glory is as great as God's.
Brahmanda Purana:
Guru is Shiva without his three eyes,
Vishnu without his four arms
Brahma without his four heads.
He is parama Shiva himself in human form
Adi Shankara:
Guru is the creator Brahma, Guru is the preserver Vishnu, Guru is the destroyer Siva. Guru is directly the supreme spirit — I offer my salutations to this Guru.
Gu
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Darkness
Birth and Death
free from Attributes
creates Maya and Gunas
Ru
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dispels darkness
destroy Birth and Death
formless
Parabrahman, transcends Maya and Gunas
Guru is composed of the syllables 'gu' and 'ru', the former signifying 'darkness', and the latter signifying 'the destroyer of that [darkness]', hence a guru is one characterized as someone who dispels spiritual ignorance (darkness), with spiritual illumination (light) -as per Advaya-Tãraka Upanishad (verse 16),
In the Gita, Krishna speaks to Arjuna of the importance of finding a guru: Acquire the transcendental knowledge from a Self-realized master by humble reverence, by sincere inquiry, and by service. The wise ones who have realized the Truth will impart the Knowledge to you.
Saints and poets in India have expressed the following views about the relationship between Guru and God:
Kabir: Guru and God both appear before me. To whom should I prostrate?
I bow before Guru who introduced God to me.
Brahmanand: It is my great fortune that I found Satguru, all my doubts are removed.
I bow before Guru. Guru's glory is as great as God's.
Brahmanda Purana:
Guru is Shiva without his three eyes,
Vishnu without his four arms
Brahma without his four heads.
He is parama Shiva himself in human form
Adi Shankara:
Guru is the creator Brahma, Guru is the preserver Vishnu, Guru is the destroyer Siva. Guru is directly the supreme spirit — I offer my salutations to this Guru.
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Focussing on a true Guru, this is a human being who I trust. This faith never goes away also when outer circumstances are not going well for me. Inside is this warmth, it was gone for years and now it is there. Faith is in my heart now. There is peace. Towards this I turn, that is the Yes! Sometimes it looks different in the head, but then I turn to the warmth in my heart. This I experience through Madhukar!
"Until now I have dreamt. In my dream I walked through forests of illusion, birth by birth overwhelmed by all kinds of sorrows and sufferings, subject to rebirth and death and decay. The tiger of selfishness unceasingly jumped at me. Now, by your infinite compassion, o Master, I awoke from my dream. You released me forever! Reverence to You, o great Master, You are one with Brahman. You are one with the shining light that throws a shadow called "world"."
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"The infinite darkness inside that even billions of fires, moons and suns cannot light up, the enlightened one banishes with a single look."
(Sankaracarya)
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"The seeker of wisdom does not need any other help than a real master."
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"The infinite darkness inside that even billions of fires, moons and suns cannot light up, the enlightened one banishes with a single look."
(Sankaracarya)
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"The seeker of wisdom does not need any other help than a real master."
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Who is Shankara?
0 Comments Published by Madhukar Organisation on Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 11:57 PM.
Shankracharya was one of India's foremost philosophers, his exact birth date is uncertain but was thought to have lived during the 8th Century AD.
Shankara interpreted Vedanta philosophy in a strictly Advaita (non dual, monistic) spirit. In essence this philosophy involves attaining the Supreme Transcendental Consciousness (Brahman) by detaching oneself from the material plane (also know as Maya or illusion.)
Despite teaching about the essential unreality of the world Shankara lived a life of great energy and action. In his short life span of 32 years he travelled to every corner of India spreading his advaita philosophy. Shankaracharya left a profound legacy on the spirituality of India. By the end of his life the Vedas were looked upon in a new light helping to unify the spiritual beliefs of India. He also reorganised the ancient monastic Swami order, which still continues to this day.
Shankaracharya engaged in many epic discussions with renowned scholars about the Veda's. Shankaracharya would invariably win these debates. It is said that many of his adversaries later became his followers because they were so impressed with his wisdom. Shankaracharya also had many disciples and he selected the best of these to be bestowed with the title "Acharya" These disciples were sent to different parts of India to propagate the teachings of Advaita and Shankaracharya.
After only a life of 32 years Shankaracharya embarked on his last journey to the Himalaya's. His last resting place was Kedarnath where Shankaracharya is said to have merged into Mahasamadhi. Many consider Shankaracharya to be a reincarnation of Lord Shiva
Shankara interpreted Vedanta philosophy in a strictly Advaita (non dual, monistic) spirit. In essence this philosophy involves attaining the Supreme Transcendental Consciousness (Brahman) by detaching oneself from the material plane (also know as Maya or illusion.)
Despite teaching about the essential unreality of the world Shankara lived a life of great energy and action. In his short life span of 32 years he travelled to every corner of India spreading his advaita philosophy. Shankaracharya left a profound legacy on the spirituality of India. By the end of his life the Vedas were looked upon in a new light helping to unify the spiritual beliefs of India. He also reorganised the ancient monastic Swami order, which still continues to this day.
Shankaracharya engaged in many epic discussions with renowned scholars about the Veda's. Shankaracharya would invariably win these debates. It is said that many of his adversaries later became his followers because they were so impressed with his wisdom. Shankaracharya also had many disciples and he selected the best of these to be bestowed with the title "Acharya" These disciples were sent to different parts of India to propagate the teachings of Advaita and Shankaracharya.
After only a life of 32 years Shankaracharya embarked on his last journey to the Himalaya's. His last resting place was Kedarnath where Shankaracharya is said to have merged into Mahasamadhi. Many consider Shankaracharya to be a reincarnation of Lord Shiva
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Guru Purnima, The Day of the Guru & Vyasa
0 Comments Published by Madhukar Organisation on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 9:14 PM.
Guru Purnima, the full moon day of the month of Ashad (July/August) is especially in India also called Vyasa Purnima.
On this day, which is dedicated to the big sage Vyasa, Sannyasins (people who have abandoned the world) come together to study and explain the threefold blessed Brahma Sutras (aphorisms about the creator God Brahma) Vyasa has written, and to get into Vedantic philosophical questions (Vedanta = one of the six main philosophical systems of India, literally: end of knowledge).
With the four Vedas (oldest texts of Indian literature), the eighteen Puranas (Indian tales of the Gods), with the Mahabharata (Indian heroic epic describing the fight of the descendants of Bharata) and with the Srimad Bhagavata (the tale of Krsna), Vyasa did an unforgettable service for mankind for all time.
In honor of this divine personality a puja (rite of veneration) is performed that day, and the disciples worship their teachers.
That day all believers worship Saints and the ones who have surrendered to God, and they offer them presents.
On this day, which is dedicated to the big sage Vyasa, Sannyasins (people who have abandoned the world) come together to study and explain the threefold blessed Brahma Sutras (aphorisms about the creator God Brahma) Vyasa has written, and to get into Vedantic philosophical questions (Vedanta = one of the six main philosophical systems of India, literally: end of knowledge).
With the four Vedas (oldest texts of Indian literature), the eighteen Puranas (Indian tales of the Gods), with the Mahabharata (Indian heroic epic describing the fight of the descendants of Bharata) and with the Srimad Bhagavata (the tale of Krsna), Vyasa did an unforgettable service for mankind for all time.
In honor of this divine personality a puja (rite of veneration) is performed that day, and the disciples worship their teachers.
That day all believers worship Saints and the ones who have surrendered to God, and they offer them presents.
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Guru Purnima 2009 on the 7th of July
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Guru Purnima is the day (and the night) on which the moon reaches its greatest fullness during the whole year (mostly in July). It is said that is the day on which the sunbeams touched the earth for the first time, the day of the light.
Guru means "He who banishes darkness" and Purnima "full moon night". GuruPurinma is the festival in praise of the Guru, who takes away the darkness and bestows the light. Around the world on this day the Guru is honoured by his devotees, because it is the Guru who removes the illusion of bondage and shows the reality of freedom.
On this day of pure thankfulness, love and devotion we remember clearly the grace of the Guru to whose lotus feet we may sit. To recognize the grace of the master, his purity and his love is beyond words - pure grace.
Om Guru Om
Guru means "He who banishes darkness" and Purnima "full moon night". GuruPurinma is the festival in praise of the Guru, who takes away the darkness and bestows the light. Around the world on this day the Guru is honoured by his devotees, because it is the Guru who removes the illusion of bondage and shows the reality of freedom.
On this day of pure thankfulness, love and devotion we remember clearly the grace of the Guru to whose lotus feet we may sit. To recognize the grace of the master, his purity and his love is beyond words - pure grace.
Om Guru Om
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"Om Asatoma sat gamaya, tamasoma jyotir gamaya, mrityorma amritam gamaya"
"Bring us from unreal to real, from darkness to light, from poison to nectar."
"Bring us from unreal to real, from darkness to light, from poison to nectar."
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Surrender and devotion
makes us soaring high
In this dire melting
there is no question why
Dear me! I wanted to write:
In this dear melting
there is no question why
Beautiful!
Thanks for the pictures,
Elisabeth
Wow what a life spirit and beauty we shared in Dolce Vita, Guru Purnima, thank you dear Madhukar, thank you dear sangha! Thank you all for your help and lovely being. Dolce vita 2010 will be from July 10-31! possible to come 2 or 3 weeks! Make up your mind and we will dance again until the morning light!! Love Pranava Lohita
Ciao carissimi!
"La via piu' semplice", Madhukar's first book in Italian is now available! Finalmente!
Publisher: OM edizioni, Bologna, ISBN: 978-88-95687-22-3
In bookstores from Autumn on.
Have much fun reading it and with Italian course lesson 1!
Bacioni e un abbraccio
naima
Namasté !
How did you like our celebration in Tuscany?
Please share your experiences... :)
You can also upload photos if you made some.
Love,
Arati
From Susanne and Peter:
Guru Purnima
Only love is,
that is why I am here.
Beloved One,
Thank you from the heart for you loving rejection.
For a very short moment sadness and disappointment were here. But already while we received your refusal via Lohita we found a wonderful stone in a plane heart form directly in front of out feet. Emmediately we could feel relexation, and sadness turned into loving acceptance. The sms we immediately sent to you via Lohita already came out of a laughing heart.
With big joy we completed the garlands of flowers we had started on and put some additional adornment on them because then we had enough time.
Guru Purnima 2009 – a special celebration of love.
In the shelter of darkness, with three pictures of the Beloved Ones, adorned with the garlands of flowers, with a candle and delicate butter biscuit as prasad, we were sitting silently in the fragrant meadow in front of the retreat house, gently caressed by the light of the full moon, surrounded by countless joyfully dancing fireflies.
Very close to you – One with the Beloved.
Untouched, silently loving, joyful devoted – happy, fulfilled, loving Being.
Very close – One with the Beloved.
With a loudly pounding heart, full of joy and thankfulness, happy and free, we listened to the wonderful song of loving silence inside.
One with the Beloved.
A present beyond all description!
Guru Purnima is always – pure love – independent and free!
Each moment of our spontaneous journey to the Beloved in the Tuscany was guided and carried by an invisible loving hand. Everything was easy and without any effort with many heart-touching moments.
Even the Guru Purnima flowers are – in spite of the long drive and the heat in the car – still beautiful, brightly and astonishing fresh.
Because I am happy I am here with you!
Thank you beloved Guru for this wonderful, loving present.
Thank you Beloved One.
In absolute devotion,
thankful and silently loving
Susanne and Peter
Namaste,
Mystic silence ... warmth ... love ... abundance ... myriads of dancing fireflies in the Tuscany full moon night ... in the end also with stomping techno beats … a new morning … !
Shalom and Salaam,
love ... Anand Virya
A wonderful beautiful celebration with the beloved Guruji and the wonderful cheerful people in a fantastic landscape – a wonderful dream …
The band, this special connection between Guru and devotee – the most beautiful dream there is at all and more, much more – unexplainable, beyond all words …
Unlimited faith is,
Eternal thankfulness is,
Love is.
Hare Madhukarji !
Hare Krishna !
In reverence, angela
Thank you very much for the love greetings from Italy! Found them
just now..... therefore joy is so much bigger :)I am just clicking thru You Tube. Everything you are saying is so true and right!Everything is always leading back to the One. Really true is only silence.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart! It was and is wonderful! and the youtube video is fantastic !!!
Love Anja
Wonderful! Wonderful Guru Purnima, danced under the bright full moon towards enlightenment. The Guru shines from inside.
purna
It was wonderful! Laughing, singing, dancing and full of thankfulness we celebrated with our beloved Guruji under the magnificent full moon!
Jaya Madhukarji!
Ki Jai Ho!
Immeasurable grace being allowed to celebrate Guru Purnima with you. Deep silence and hot rhythms until dawn. Wonderful.
Jutta
A ceremony full of love and devotion, being touched and immeasurable ecstasy. May it never end. Pure grace to be allowed to be with you beloved Guruji.
Jaya Jaya Madhukarj
Leela
Love called me to Tuscany to celebrate the thankfulness to the Guru together with the Sangha. Pure joy. Silently preparing all arrangements, creating a carpet made of flowers, sitting to your lotos feet, singing and dancing under free skies until the morning sun replaced the full moon. Enjoying Satsang at the beach.
Thank you from my heart beloved Guruji
Shivani
I am so happy that I was allowed to be present in Tuscany. Thank you very much for this wonderful present, adored Master Madhukarji. Thank you very much. It was so abundant, so full, so blessing for me!!! It is, it is like this!!! Your Bernd
at the pulse of eternity
in the silence of timelessness
in the pulse with the Master and the Sangha
in the boundlessness of joy
overflowing joy and thankfulness
under FREE sky endless
eternal youth of danced through nights
without words
grace
blessing
From Bernd:
According to the wish and suggestion of a dear friend I write some lines about Guru Purnima, the celebration of veneration of the Master, that took place in the night from July 7 until 8, 2009 in Monticello Amiata, at the mountain Monte Amiata, the mountain of love, in Tuscany, Italy.
Hello dear friends,
Yes, Guru Purnima was a very special festival, two days as I never experienced before, three, four, with the ones afterwards and before, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten… At the ceremony on July 7 Rita – brightly shining – was reading to us from a wonderful book that the bands between Master and disciple, between Master and devotee would be renewed and strengthened. The day started with having breakfast together, fruits and tea, water, milk and honey was offered. Actually the day started with getting up, washing, showering, getting ready and driving together by car to the place of the celebration. But all these details and immensenesses of that day cannot be told here.
A day of fasting for preparation, for catharsis and focusing on the Self. At first, Satsang took place together with the Master in silence. Keeping still, being silent during the day, only important communication for focusing on what is essential. It was wonderful, a beautiful, magnificent retreat place as I have seldom experienced it. Located in a deep valley surrounded by marvelous lushly green meadows and dark Tuscany forests, the sun was shining, the bees were humming, everything was soft, warm, sunny and fresh. The people gathered together in groups to make the preparations for the celebration, Guru Purnima, and a magnificent night afterwards. Dear women were walking through meadows collecting flowers for a flower-carpet and for mandalas and hearts for the Master, a music stereo system that would have fit each professional DJ, set up on the terrace in front of the Satsang room, with lighting system, cross-beam, light and sound show etc. A very special present for the Master: Some of the beams were sending the M-logo in the most glowing colors onto the floor, on the houses of the residence, into the sky and out into the world. It was grandiose. I was allowed to film the people, the surroundings, taking impressions of the day, and was allowed to see the place with other eyes. Other eyes? Which should that be…!?!
Well, the day was passing by, the mermaids were swimming in the pool and the evening came closer and closer. Slowly the sun disappeared behind the hills and colored the people, the flowers, the houses and everything into a beautiful, warm, sunsetredyellowsunbeautiful Marvelous. Arati, the singer, was preparing mantras and songs with the ones who got pleased by it. It was great. All together going after their small and big tasks, or were just simply being there, being. We were staying at the Satsang place for a couple of hours before the event took place. Singing, dancing, laughing. Some sunken into the effect of the holy celebration and anchored in the Here, in the Now, in the presence of the Master and of Being.
You dear ones, I could keep on writing for a long time for telling you what I have experienced these days, so full of abundance, beauty, ecstasy and intensity. So beautiful with deep encounters with many people, while driving through the landscape of Tuscany, Satsang in the sunset at the beach with the Master, the rush of the ocean and the screaming of the sea gulls.
60, 70 or even more searchers and having found ones together at a hidden beach, facing ocean and sun, holding each others hands, and, guided by the Guru, arms up towards the sky and then - just like on single, joyful, happy wave - running towards the flow and diving down, still united with the hands, fizzy, happy.
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What a wonderful picture; and the night during and after the ceremony was one big party. Each one laying a rose down to the Master’s feet, bowing low in front of the grace of the Self, chanting, singing, louder and louder, stronger and more powerful than before. So that the whole world gets to know what is celebrated here. Before this, the Master’s feet have been washed and anointed and have been embedded in blossoms of roses. Beautiful, so many shining, happy and delighted faces in the room!
The party night, breaking our Lent with having dinner together in the middle of the night. Fried vegetables, risotto, candlelight, moonlight ….. Purnima and sweetest food were served to us.
The organic red wine the people of the property are growing on the surrounding hills started to flow, all were one with the Guru, sitting together on a long table. What a present, so wonderful encounters of people who cherish each other, love each other and who are focused on THAT. Gorgeous, wonderful. We danced through the night, driven by the power of Madhukarji, his awakeness, truth, clarity and joy of life. We danced, laughed and were celebrating under the full moon in the never ending sounds of the electronic music of our DJ Sukkhadas. Fortunately, it did not end, and some of us did without any sleep to celebrate love together.
The next day we had breakfast together. We were full of what happened the last 24 hours and we were looking forward to what is and what is yet to come. A further present: Meeting the Master at a hidden beach. Well, I could write and write to share all these impressions and moments with you, hold onto them, letting them go, freedom, love, happiness. Thank you venerated Guruji, thank you dear Master for your everlasting focus on what is essential, clear, bright, straight and pure like the brazen blade of a sword. Thank you for what we were allowed to experience during these days of the celebration and after it.
It was a true present that we were allowed to be there. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Your Bernd from Freiburg