value of Guru 2

Guru suggests – gu means darkness, ru means dispeller – dispelling darkness. How to dispel darkness? You cannot kick the darkness out of a place because darkness is not an existence by itself. Darkness is absence of light. We value light for the clarity that it brings us. 


The reason why there has always been so much importance and stress on a Guru is that without a Guru, you cannot transform yourself. It is possible to work towards what you know, but how can you transform yourself into something that you don’t know?

A Guru is not a person, but a certain possibility. It is not that only certain people get access to this possibility. Everyone may not have access to the person, but anyone who truly longs, always has access to this energy.

Being with a Master is never comfortable because he will break all your limitations and ideologies. Knowing the person or having access to the person can be on many levels. Having access to the possibility is only because of the longing that one may have. 


 If you really want to make use of a Guru’s Presence, you must be willing to allow that Presence to overwhelm you, to overpower you, to destroy you in one way. At least for those few moments that you are with him, you should no longer be yourself. What you consider yourself to be, should be absent in his Presence.

A Guru creates his personality in such a way that people don’t know whether to love it or to hate it…

That which is not in your experience cannot be taught to you intellectually. To take a person from one dimension of experience to another dimension of experience, you need a device which is of a higher level of intensity and energy. That device is what we call as Guru. The Guru-shishya relationship is on an energy basis. A Guru is touching you in a dimension where no one else can touch you. There are many ways to move your energies to Ajna. But from Ajna to Sahasrar, there is no particular way to do anything. It is just a jump. It is because of this that the Guru-shishya relationship has been held as the most sacred relationship in this culture. If you have to take this jump, you need deep trust – otherwise, it is not possible.

~ Sadguru

Value of Guru - Adi shankara

Body is handsome, wife is attractive, fame spread far and wide, 

wealth enormous and stable like Mount Meru; 

but of what consequence are all these, 

if the mind is not riveted in devotion to the lotus feet of Guru? 

Really of what use is all this, what use, what use?

Wife, wealth, son, grandson, and the like, house, relations, 

even if all these are there fate is certain, of what consequence is 

one’s life if his mind is not devoted to the feet of Guru? 

Ascertain, what use is any possession, person or object? 

Of what use, of what use, of what use indeed?

All the Vedas are mastered and ever present on the lips; likewise, knowledge of all the sciences is well gained. he ability to write prose or verse is also present. Even then, of what ultimate benefit is all this, if one’s mind does not devoutly rest on the feet of Guru? By whose grace along can one’s soul be liberated? Of what use, of what use, of what use indeed?

I am honoured well even in far off places, held in high esteem in my own locality; in good conduct and noble deeds there is no one to excel me. If one has occasion to think like this, of what avail is it if the mind is not steeped in devotion and humility towards the feet of the Guru from whom alone can flow wisdom and immortality?

Your feet may be worshipped constantly even by the great kings and emperors of the world for reason of your greatness and scholarship; but of what real consequence is that if the mind is not graced by the blessing of unflinching devotion to the Guru, by whose loving ‘touch’ alone can redemption and peace be realized?

Of what avail if one has enough merits to think my fame has already spread in several places due to my unique generosity and a result, all things of the world stand within my easy reach? For, the virtue and quality that count ultimately is only one’s unflinching loyalty and devotion towards the Guru whose blessings are the ultimate factor for realization of Truth by a devoted seeker.

The mind may have turned away from external delights through dispassion and from attainments like Yogic concentration, possessions like horses and the like, the enchanting face of the beloved, in short, the entire wealth of the earth; yet it will be of no real merit if the mind is not absorbed in piety and devotion to the feet of Guru. Bereft of this devotion, of what benefit is anything, of what benefit, of what benefit?

Even if I find in my possession precious stones or pearls and well decorated and dressed lovable bride, yet if my mind is not absorbed in devotion to the lotus feet of the Guru, of what use is any other possession?

The mind may have lost its charm to live in forests, and likewise in the house; may have lost all desire to achieve whatever; even the concern for the body’s welfare may have been outlived; the most invaluable treasure of the world may not hold any allurement. Even then, of what avail are all these if the supreme devotion to the Guru is not held by the aspirant? Determine, of what use? of what use?

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Guru Ashtakam 

Whoever reads, studies and recites this Ashtaka on Guru and remains devoted and attentive to the sayings of the Guru, he, no matter if he is a holy person, ascetic, king, neophyte, or householder, attains his coveted object, namely the supreme abode of Brahman, the unassailable seat of immortality.

Value of Guru

1. Even if the Guru is wrong, if your devotion is there you can never go wrong.
2. The Guru Tattva is placed even higher than Lord Shiva Himself! 
3. What are the benefits of having the Guru in life?  When you consciously acknowledge the Guru, that is when you learn more. You also might have experienced, that in life sometimes you feel stuck and the Guru’s presence moves you through, so that you don’t get stuck. Events, situations, concepts can all make one feel stuck. Firstly, one does not even know that one is stuck. Guru’s presence makes you realize that you are stuck, and helps you move.
4. Moving from where we are stuck to having the flow in life towards its ultimate goal is the second benefit of having a Guru.
5. The Guru principle or Guru-tattva will give you that which is good for you and not everything that you want.
6.   Guru does not let you remain in an illusory world but helps you wake up and look at what is the ultimate reality of the universe. That is freedom or liberation.
7. Self-effort is only in the conscious mind. For the subconscious mind you cannot put an effort. You need someone else or some other higher power to influence that. In fact to turn the unconscious mind into the super-conscious mind one definitely needs help and therefore nature has provided tradition of masters
8. There are some who are very sensible but not sensitive and there are some who are very sensitive but not sensible. That wisdom which brings the balance in life is the Guru principle.
9. Guru is essential. Leading from darkness to light, from known to unknown
10. Guru expects nothing from you, except your well being and progress in path.
11. Guru does not stuff knowledge to you, but kindles life force in you.

by Sri Sri

Value of satsang

After obtaining deeksha, on doing meditation regularly we can lead a better life. It takes time to get into the track and pick up the meditation on Thiruvadi. For mind not to get confused/distracted in between, attending SATSANG is mandatory. When you come for a satsang, you talk to people, get to know experience of others. If you don't talk any one is also fine.. Its enough if you sit in the group of meditators. You will get recharged. Everyone gets recharged in satsang. 

Satsangatve nissngatvam
nissangatve nirmohatvam; nirmohatve nishchalatattvam nishcalatattve jiivanmuktih - adi sankara said. Even vallalar said if you are not in commune with thiruvadi meditators, its difficult to stay at holy feet of God. 

How much ever meditation you do, it does not matter, but its important to be in the satsang. If you are alone, a bad company can ruin your meditation. If you are in satsang, there is no need to worry about your activities. You will get the vibration. If you goto temple you will get a relaxation. In satsang you will 100 times better relaxation. Some can realize this, some can't realize the benefit due to karmic accumulation. We are wrapped by the karmic layer that don't let us experience this. Only when karmic veil started removing we can realize each and every small things. There will be full of divine sensation in the body. We can confirm that all naadis are activated.

Gnana sarguru sivaselvaraj Ayya

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Guru - the way

If your son/daughter made some mistake, will you ignore him for his mistake? We will try in all possible ways to make him come out of his mistake. Will God let down(discard) us for our mistakes? We might have done mistakes based on expression our karma and ignorance. If we realize the mistake and surrender to the holy feet of God, then we have solution for everything. We can get rid of all our karma. To achieve that we need grace of Guru.

God is like a law-maker(president/prime minister) He wont violate the laws. Guru is like our mother. If her son is murderer or thief or doing any mistakes, she wont compromise. Guru is mother to his disciples. Guru will look for all possible ways to overcome the problems/karmas of his disciple, will make him(guide) to clear their karma and mistakes. Guru always be with disciple, reduce the impact of karmic reactions. Only the guru makes the disciple pure. Only Guru can resolve all our karma. We have to cooperate to GURU.

We have to identify our mistakes and surrender to the feet of Guru.

Guru gives instructions to follow. We have to follow them first. We need do the penance(meditation) at thiruvadi and reach certain state. Only then they will join us and reduce the impact or intensity of our karma, alter the karma and save us. Without following the words of Guru, it is meaning less to blame God saying he didn't help in life to over come the problems.

You created all problems/karma in life, it's not intelligent to blame God. If we follow the words of Guru then we have exemption from our karma.

As God follows law-order, if you approach him, he will not violate the laws enforced by him. Guru is like a mother who save/protect you from your karma to realize god. Who ever its, whatever the status he has in society, if he has Grace of Guru only then he great person. Guru is sath sath para brahma. There is nothing else to say. There is no alternative explanation needed for Gurur brahmaa gurur vishnuh
Gurur devo maheshvarah Gurur saakshaat parabrahma. if we surrender to Good Guru we can overcome the cycle of birth-death.

Cry - tears

’Let your eyes become clouds pouring rainwater.’ Let tears flow from your eyes in a deep longing for God. Feel that you are missing your beloved – cry for it, weep for it, let your tears become your prayer. All other prayers are poor compared to the prayer that happens through tears. All words are poor.

God is not to be searched for, your eyes have only to be clean

 God is not somewhere else – you need not go to the Himalayas. God is not somewhere high in heaven, God is here now! This very moment! But your eyes are not luminous, you cannot reflect Him. God is not to be searched for, your eyes have only to be clean, unburdened. Let the past disappear.  - OSHO

luminous eyes to see this reality

You will need luminous eyes to see this reality, to recognize this secret one inside you. To recognize this vastness, this totality, this wholeness, you will have to create luminous eyes.

What does he mean by ’luminous eyes’? Your eyes are too dusty, the dust goes on collecting. It is like a mirror which has collected so much dust that it reflects no more.

What dust? Beliefs, religions, idols, ideals, ideologies, scriptures, -isms. All kinds of dust have accumulated on your eyes. It is really a miracle how you go on seeing the little bit that you do – even that should not be, because with so much dust

Kabir's meditation

...Kabir says: You will have to create luminous eyes. Empty eyes are luminous eyes. Drop all dust.
Sacred or mundane, drop all dust; holy or profane, drop all dust. Cleanse your eyes: that’s what
meditation is all about


Eyes are lotus feet of God.
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Remove the dust

Jesus says ’Unless you are like children you will not enter into my kingdom of God.’ And remember, that kingdom is not far away – it surrounds you.

That kingdom is here. You are still in it, you have just lost the eyes to see it.

The kingdom is not to be gained, eyes have only to be regained, rediscovered – and it is not a difficult phenomenon, because you once had those eyes. They are only covered with dust.

The mirror has become covered with a layer of dust, but the mirror is there. Remove the dust, and again things will become beautiful, again things will have meaning and significance .

Purpose of Human Birth

Realize Soul and Lord

Dear soul,

Welcome to Thanga Jothi Gnana Sabai!  You have taken birth as human in India where Innumerable saints are living. You should be virtuous soul to take birth as human being. You have taken birth without any defects in the body, don’t you have to know the reason for this birth and fulfill that?

Contemplate! Why we have taken this birth? Why we are living as human in this world? How we should live this life!?  Where were we before our birth? What is our origin? How did we come to this world? Our parents and grandparents gave birth to kids, lived their life in this world and then died and left this world?  World was there before our birth.  It was there before our parents took birth, before our grandparents too. Our ancestors lived in this world too. Is it not?

After our death our son, our grandson, great grandsons are going to live?!  We live our life as if we are in a running race. In this race, at the most we might live for a 120 years!  But we humans live almost like an animal by getting addicted to bad habits and eating non-vegetarian food!? People who are living in a wrong way can survive only for 70 years; it’s very difficult to cross that age.

Bible says “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”  Hindu Vedas also says the same truth!? All Human beings are taking birth based the previous birth’s good and bad deeds. The karmic accumulation of previous birth(s) decides our current life! This is the truth! This is what our scriptures say!  Man who has taken birth with both good and bad karma. A man with karmic accumulation is a sinful person! What bible says is the truth! All saints in our country said the same!  Man is sinful – He forgot his athma and lives the life with body mind limitation. Lives like animal by only eating, sleeping and reproducing. He ignores the great power with-in that manages all functions in the body.  He identifies himself wrongly with his body and mind.

The karma which is root cause for birth and death, varies from being to being! The birth taken and the life he lives is based on karma!  No one can receive other’s karma!  It is we who decide how to live our life! Our children and relatives are the athmas to which we had karmic relation in the previous births!? Once the karmic relation gets over then they leave you and go! Really there is no relation between son and a father! This is real life! Karma is also called fate. Our ancestors referred to karma as fate. Karma comes with the soul upon birth and goes with the soul upon death. All the relationships between human beings are maintained by the society for better living this world.

We took this birth with the grace of God!  The real father and mother of all living beings in this world is the almighty God! He is called as Ammaiyappan(Mother-Father).  The physical body is given to us by our parents.  Soul-Athma is given by God! In this birth  God has given us this chance as human to realize our self-athma.  Realize soul and God. This is possible only in human birth.

All human are unique because of our karmic accumulation. God can be classified as male and female physically but as a soul-athma all human beings are the same!  All human souls of this world are similar to almighty God.  People varied by karma but by jeevan-soul all are the same! The difference is only due to karma. God is one! He is Param-athma!  He is also jeevathma who lives in all living beings of this world.

Oh people of this world, although we are different by karmic accumulations, as per the soul we are all the same!  Don’t we need to realize that we are one by soul-athma? How long will our soul be suffering due to mind which acts as per our karma? When soul will be liberated? Don’t we need to know our self-athma?  Don’t we need to work to destroy the karmic accumulation which is the obstacle to know self-soul? In this world we learnt each and everything from others.  From our birth we have learnt from our mother, father, relatives, neighbor, friends, books and teachers.  We have blindly followed whatever they said and we still continue to follow the same! When we took this birth we only knew how to cry. Don’t we need do penance on the lotus feet of God?  Lotus feet of God is our eyes.  While doing penance (Thiruvadi Davam after obtaining Thiruvadi initiation from a gnana sarguru) tears will flow and drench the whole body. Only committed penance will help you to clear all the karmic accumulation and see the soul (yourself) and God.  We know only to cry and should obtain Gnana (divine wisdom) by crying (tears should flow like river by penance). See how God has created us excellently?

Soul takes care of our body and mind.  All complex activity in our body (digestion, blood, nerves, brain, and heart) happens only when soul/athma is present in our body. Don’t we need to realize the God who gave soul to us, who is dwells as soul in our body? This is the purpose of our life! We took birth in this world to not to take any more births ( to stop the birth-death-birth chain).  Pay attention to athma suffers from pain of birth, pain of mind and pain of death. We should not die in this birth to avoid next birth.  We should live a deathless life!  We have to become Siranjeevee!  All siddhas, saints, gnanis and religions accepted that God is one and he is vast grace divine light! Soul is tiny divine light which present in our body. This is the truth! God is omnipresent, he who is glittering in all atoms, is present in our center of head as soul-athma (divine light).  This is the truth told by all Vedas!!  God who is present in the center of our head he blesses us by expressing himself in our two eyes!  Bible says “Eye is the lamp of the body”.  The secret revealed by Kathopanishad is that lord is as smokeless divine light in our body and is expressing or displaying himself as divine light in our eyes!

I reveal this secret, sathya hidden by many people with the grace of great Gnana Siddha Thiru Arut prakasa vallalar! Let each and everyone in this world attain Gnana (realize the soul and god)! Let everyone attain the birth right! Let everyone in this world reach lotus feet of God! These are the goals of vallalar! Vallalar is inviting all the people in this world to attain deathless life!

We have learnt each and everything from others. So don’t we need a person who can help in spirituality? To attain gnana (know self and God), to attain self-realization we need someone to teach and guide us! He is called “GURU”!  For the people of this world to attain gnana there are four Vedas, Bible, Quran, Thiru-madniram and Thiru-arutpa. There are also so many other books on spirituality! All the books show way (guides us) to know the one God who is in the form of divine light.

We should be ready to listen when there is a Guru to teach spirituality to us! Gnana guru is the one who helps us understand  and realize this!  Gnana Sarguru is the one who lights the lamp of the divine light and removes the darkness/ignorance.  Come to Thanga Jothi Gnana Sabai to lamp the divine light in you. With the grace of Ramalinga swamigal Thiru Arut Prakasa Vallalar, this humble being understood that instead of giving food to thousand people if we show the way for one soul’s liberation it’s considered as ultimate service.  This humble being donates this knowledge to all people in this world. The greatest service is to help the seeker of God instead of giving food for so many people. The greatest service is to help a person in attaining self-realization! This humble being is helping all souls to know themselves!

Equality (Samarasam) taught by vallalar is that people of this world are children of the God. People should unite without discrimination of caste, religion, language!  Accept and embrace all kinds of people without any differences and try to merge with God vast grace light (from where we/soul came).   Practice makes a man perfect!  Penance will help you to know soul/self and God. This is Samarasa Sanmargam.

Four Vedas preaches this Samarasa Sanmaargam

Bible preaches this Samarasa Sanmaargam

Quran preaches this Samarasa Sanmaargam

Thirumandiram Thiruvaasagam Thiru arutpa  is says the same.

All the scriptures preaches us to live in this world by knowing our self and God.

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God is one. God is experienced as Artuperunjothi –
Divine light with abundant grace.

We are children of God. We are brothers and sisters.

Do not differentiate people by caste, religion, language and race.

Don't kill animals in the name of God.

Don't eat Non vegetarian food.

Feeding food to the hungry is real worship.

Teach people how to live deathless life .

Open your pupil of eyes-lotus feet of lord through a GnanaSarguru.

Don't hide knowledge about God, teach every one.

Live a disciplined life, follow indiriya, jeeva, karana and aanma ozhukkam.

Look at your self-athma and others with compassion.

Thiru artuprakasha vallalar  Ramalinga adigal.

Quotes of Gnana sarguru sivaselvarj

Sathya gnana sabai is the temple of self realization established by vallalar.
Sirsabai and Porsabai in either side of sathya gnana sabai  is our eyes.
Real guru is one who explain the secret  where all our five senses subdue(adakkam)

Where is athma located? its present at the center of head as divine flame. Don't we need to know the path to realize the Athma.

To do penance/Thavam one need not leave the family and goto forest.
No need to roam the world by wearing kaavi (Saffron) dress with beard and utraksha .
Marriage is not the obstacle for mukthi. You can start you peance now in your current status.


God is within you. Dont search him in outside temples, mountains and lakes.
One who does penance should eat only veg food. Should not starve for food.
He should eat minimal required food.

Siva destroys the tiripura means the Penance on Lotus feet.Kaama (Lust)- Maaya (illusion) - ego are the three shits are the Thiripura.a


Why we fondle(konju-tamil) as kanne?
Male lovers calls his better half as Kanne?Husband calls wife as Kanne?  (I think first three line can be removed as it is more relevant in Tamil)
 
We fall in the feet of elders and keep the hand in eyes?
In temple aradhana we pray the aarthi and keep hand in our eyes?
Bettle leaf and paaku in temple?
Coconut given for God has three eyes?
- eyes are lotus feet/padakamala of God

God is beyond the Body and mind.
Silence/mouna is the language of God. One who destroyed the form of mind can realize and reach the God-ArutperumJothi.
Medicine for the birth-death disease is Divine light present in the eyes.
How to do Davam-meditation? It is not chating of mantras, not doing pooja
Not  doing yagna(yagam), Not doing pranayama or other yoga.
Its not troubling the body by any means. Davam/Penance means keeping our mind always in the divine consiousness/sensation got in the pupil of the eye through Deekshai from a Guru and doing nothing.

Bakthi yoga, Karma yoga, Raja Yoga are steps to obtain Gnana. To obtain Gnana one should know sanathana dharma (Should Live a Compassionate, Virtuous and moral life).

Saivites praised God as Siva
vasinavites praised God as narayana
Like this Muslims, chiritstinas sikhs and jains praised with different names of ONE God - Divine Jyothi. Gnana is to  realize this one God that is as Divine light.


There is a way  to live a blissful-prosperous life and realize God.
Do meditaion where the mind subdues easily.  Its our eyes where karmic accumulation present as veil. Our mind orginates from the karmic veils present in Sukshuma in the eyes. Peance is not to allow the mind go out of eyes and make it to stay there. Mind subdue in its orgin easily. "Summa iru" (Doing Nothing and Just being in the divine light of the eyes) is the peance.  
Divine light present in our eyes is the Kundalini sakthi. This the divine secret.

Meditation at Pada kamala should not be done with eyes closed.
Our two eyes should be purified and opened along with the third eye.
Seek a gnan sarguru to obtain Thiruvadi upadesa/preaching.Obtain deeksha and do penance with eyes open. To cross the samsara sakara stay with eyes open and with consciousness in the eyes.

In 24hrs of the day, we think about many things not related to us.
But we dont spend time to know athma which is resonsible for functioning of Body.
Then that day becomes useless.

Without Guru Grace one can never obtain Grace of God. Disciple has to follow the Words of Guru as Veda.
Surrendering to Guru, Doing service to Guru is easy way for mukthi.

God is one -  This is accepted/preached  by all the relegions, siddhas/enlightened masters
God is one and he is experianced as of Jothi. He is within us a Athma.
Without him nothing happens in this world. This is the truth accepted everyone.
God - Vast grace light -  Omnipotent God is present in our body as tiny jothi.
This is the truth that needs to be realized by all human beings in this world.

You have father and mother in this world. Have you ever thought a Guru?Only through Guru you can see and realize the God. Guru is para brahma.

From childhood you learned everything from others. They are not Guru.
Guru explains Who You Are?  He initiates(deeksha) you to realize  you self.Search for a Guru who can Give Deeksha in Pada kamala.

God is not hidden from us.
Our karmic accumulation seperates us from God.
If we do penance/meditation on Lotus feet(pada kamala)
we can get rid of our karma then God will express from within.
Then we can live in bliss.

"The purusha, who is of the size of a thumb, resides in the body.
The purusha who is the size of a thumb is a light (jyoti) without smoke."
 Katha Upanishad (1.12-13)
In Katha Upanishad (1.12-13) answer by Lord Yama (God of Death) to Nachiketa is "God is present in our body in the place which can be measured in our thumbs.
In that place God is present in the form of smokeless divine flame!?"

Two things have to be noted here.
1 he is in human body 2 he resides within us as smokeless divine flame.

Holy feet??

True Meaning of Kundalini Yoga

Kundalini in Gnanam means the following: Kundalini = Kundu + Oli + Nee. In Tamil Kundu means ball. Oli means Light. Nee means You. So Kundalini the word gives the meaning like this "The light in the ball is you". So we the Soul is what represented by Kundalini. Where is the light in the ball? The Soul which is in the center of our head is accessible and expressing itself as the light in our eye ball. This divine light that is expressed in the pupil of our eyes is what called as Kundalini.

Yogam means union. Kundalini Yoga means uniting our mind in the light in the pupil of our eyes. This is the true meaning of Kundalini Yoga.

Yoga Sastram tells that the Kunadlini is in the end of spinal cord. We donot want that. TiruArutPrakasa Vallalar has clearly told that Pranayam or any other breathing practice will not lead one to to the Supreme Lord. Yoga and Pranayam were not recommeded in this age.
TiruArutPrakasa Vallalar also tells

"Any Spiritual practice will give a vision of small light, many get struck with arrogance and ego and remain in the same state on getting these visions".

Siddhar Tirumoolar also warns about yoga practices in his song in TiruManthiram which is as below:
“Even if one does yoga for 8000 years he cannot see and realize the divinity in the eyes.
Only if you see within yourself with the divine light of eyes you can realize that the SupremeLord is mixed in you” – Saint Tirumoolar

To explain furthur, all the saints of the world have described the Supreme Lord as Light. One who tries to attain the Supreme Light using the air will not succed.

The Soul light is accessible from the Eyes and hence eyes are called as holyfeet of god. (TiruVadi). Capturing the holy feet (divine light in the pupil of the eyes) with the divine consiousness got in the eye via Tiruvadi Deekshai will lead one to self realization and God Realization

Lotus feet - Great masters

Shri Adi Sankaracharya’s Guru Ashtakam

Even if you have a pretty body, a beautiful wife,
Great fame and mountain like money,
If your mind is not attached to the Lotus feet of Guru

What is the use? What is the use? And What is the use?

Even if you have a wife, wealth, children grand children.
House , relations and are born in a great family,
If your mind is not attached to the Lotus feet of Guru
What is the use? What is the use? And What is the use?

Even if you have a wife, wealth, children grand children.
House , relations and are born in a great family,
If your mind is not attached to the Lotus feet of Guru
What is the use? What is the use? And What is the use?

Even if you are an expert in six angas and the four Vedas,
And an expert in writing good prose and poems,
If your mind is not attached to the Lotus feet of Guru

What is the use? What is the use? And What is the use?

Even if you are considered great abroad, rich in your own place,
And greatly regarded in virtues and life,
If your mind is not attached to the Lotus feet of Guru

What is the use? What is the use? And What is the use?

Even if you are a king of a great region,
And is served by kings and great kings,
If your mind is not attached to the Lotus feet of Guru

What is the use? What is the use? And What is the use?

Even if your fame has spread all over,
And the entire world is with you because of charity and fame,
If your mind does not bow at the Guru’s feet,
What is the use? What is the use? And What is the use?

Even if your mind stays away in the forest,
Or in the house, Or In duties or in great thoughts
If your mind is not attached to the Lotus feet of Guru
What is the use? What is the use? And What is the use?

Even if you have priceless jewel collection,
Even if you have an embracing passionate wife,
If your mind is not attached to the Lotus feet of Guru
What is the use? What is the use? And What is the use?

That blessed one who reads this octet to the Guru,
Be he a saint, king, bachelor or householder
If your mind is not attached to the Lotus feet of Guru
He would get the great gift of attainment of Brahman.

Katha Upanishad

The Purusha, of the size of a thumb, is like a flame without smoke. The Lord of the past and the future, He is the same today and tomorrow. This, verily, is That.

The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.  ` Matthew 6:22

Eyes are windows to the soul - William Shakespeare

Lotus feet of God is home of my mind – Guru Granth sahib

Surrender fully unto lotus feet of God that is the only business of the perfect human – Srimad bagavatham 1.5.20

That who submit his mind to Govinda, washes all the sins by

Meditating on the lotus feet of Godvinda – Adi shankara

O My Lord Narayana! You are full of unlimited Grace. I

Sincerely take refuge at you lotus feet – Adi shankara

All five elements are present in the lotus feet of God eyes.

-         Gnana Sarguru sivaselvaraj,

I offer my respectful obeisances unto my spiritual master, who with the torchlight of knowledge has opened my eyes, which were blinded by the darkness of ignorance. – Prabhupada

The mind can dis-entangle itself from worldliness, if through her grace, she makes it turn toward herself,

Only then does it become devoted to the lotus feet of Divine mother. One must propitiate the divine mother, the primal energy, in order to obtain God’s grace. God himself is mahamaya, who deludes the world with her illusion and conjures up the magic of creation preservation and destruction, she has spread this veil of ignorance before our eyes.  ~ Sri Ramakrishna

The big difference between a scholar and holy man. The mind of mere scholar is fixed on ‘woman and gold’. The saadhu’s mind is on the Lotus feet of Hari – Sri Ramakrishna.

Love for the Lotus feet of God is alone real, and all else illusory. – Sri Ramakrishna

For a true sikh, Lotus feet of the beleoved satguru is a heaven of Bliss, spiritual

Peace and joy and abode eternal. Immersed in the fathomless depth of this

Ocean of Bliss, one loses one’s “I’ ego and separate individuality and identity and

Experiances a taste of eternity in one’s own luminous soul. – Sri guru sranth sahib

Placing the attention on the lotus feet with a reverential attitude can dispel mundane preoccupations of ego, such as desires born out of vanity, pride and

Greed. Suffering, affliction pain fear and discontent fade away as body and mind

Become purified through attaching mind to the lotus feet. The illusion of separation from divine fades away. ~ Anonymous

Taking refuge at Gurus lotus feet, the devotee can receive innumerable spiritual

Benefits, just as he might attain through making pilgrimages, fasting, doing charitable acts, performing austerities and engaging in yogic disciplines. – anonymous.

The whole idea of the Mahabharatha culminates in the ultimate instructions of the bhagavath gita, that one should relinquish all other engagements an should engage oneself solely and fully in surrendering unto the lotus feet of Lord.

To destroy the form of the mind, enquire into the ego, the delusion, and enter the heart. This indeed is the worship to the lotus feet of Guru’s Holy form who abides

In the still silence that is beyond the mind- Ramanar

Like a cataract upon the eye, the ego- view plays trick on us, masquerading as being – consciousness even as it moves about in the insentient body. To prevent its formation and growth is worship to the graceful Twin lotus feet of the Guru  who exists and shines as the transcendental firmament.  Ramanar

If you want to attain liberation and redeem yourself by cutting asunder with the sword of true knowledge that false ignorance that has strongly bound you in the  form of an individual self, let your mind spring up immediately with surging love and without wasting a moment of your life, meditate constantly upon the Golden Lotus feet of the reality who, in the form of the guru, has taken you into his fold.

Ramanar

Great devotees are valled adiyars because they lie at the Lotus feet of Lord. In Sanskrit too we have similar term Acarya pada Govindpada Bagavathpada

Foot is called pada in Sanskrit, its known as ADI in tamil – Maha periyava.

Once the devotees mind, captivated by the Good qualities of the Lords, dwell on his Lotus feet, all their sins are absolved ar they will not see even in dream, yema and his lieutenants armed with roaps in their hands. – Srimad bhagavatham

Hearing singing or chanting remembering and thinking about your auspicious names and forms, engaged in various activities, but at the same time the mind

Thinking of lotus feet, such person will never again be subjected to the cycle of births and deaths. - Srimad bhagavatham

Nayana Deeksha is deeksha by the eye i.e by the guru looking on the disciple and communicating spiritual light. – Anonymous.

Surrender yourself to the lotus feet of the Guru with your senses and mind disciplined, and free from the shackles of samsara you will behold the Lord -

Bhaja Govindam.

O my mind,worship the lotus feet of the indestructible One! Mira says offer mind to those Lotus feet – Mirabai.

Mira’s Lord is the Mountain-Holder the suave lover. I sacrifice myself in devotion to his Lotus feet.  – Mirabai.

They are supreme ascetics who keep their Guru’s feet in their conscience. – Sadavsiva brahmendra

Madhvas and Gaudiyas share many of the same philosophical points. Both

Need to surrender to the Lotus feet of the Guru.

Even by the sightest rememberance of Krishna’s Lotus feet, all your sins may be burned up. Then through wholehearted devotion everything else will be attained.

~Jagadguru Madhavacharya

Lamps burn in every house,

O Blind one! And you cannot see them. One day your eyes shall

Suddenly be opened, and you shall see; and fetters of death will fall from you.

-          Kabir sahib.

80% contact with the world is through eyes. You move into the world almost only through eyes; They say 80% = osho

There are thousands and thousands of stories.. just by look one can become enlightened. They donot appear rational to us. How is this possible? This is possible! Even a look from the master into your eyes will change your total being,

But it can change only if your eyes are vacant, valley-like. – Osho

Remove the 7 veils to have athma jothi darsan. – Vallalar

Lift the veil that obscures the heart and there you will find what you are looking for – Kabir

Just between these two eyes is the third eye, the wisdom eye. The energy falling back from eyes hits third eye. – Osho

Blind man is 80% non-alive, he lives 20% - osho

You never look at each others eyes. You can touch the body there is not so offensive – but never look into each others eyes because that will be too much. Too near. You will penetrate the real man.– Osho

Through eyes 80% of the energy moves out. You are moving into the world through eyes. – osho

Focus your consciousness on his lotus feet and the inverted louts heart shall blossom forth. – Guru Granth sahib

One who enshrines his Lotus feet, meet the beloved lord; the divine light is revealed to him. – Guru Granth sahib

Your eyes show the strength of your soul – Paulo Coelho

I pray to you and worship at your golden lotus feet in complete faith – Thiyagaraja

O mother Tualsi! Deign to come and protect me; I have placed faith in only your holy feet.  Thiyagaraja

A single jump from the eyes can lead you to the source. That is not possible anywhere else from the body. From elsewhere you will have to travel long the distance is great. But from eyes a single step is enough to enter into yourself. – osho

Eyes are meeting point of you and your body. No where else in the body meeting is so deep. Human body and you are so separated, a great distance is there. But at the point of eyes you are the nearest to your body and body nearest to you. That is why eye can be used for the inner journey. – Osho.