Guru-Disciple Relationship
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[edit] Guru in Hinduism
The importance of finding a guru who can impart transcendental knowledge (vidyā) is emphasised in Hinduism.
A Guru in a Modern World
Moreover, there are problems in the tradition of Master and Initiate today.
Guru
spiritually enlightened soul, who can dispel darkness, ignorance and illusion from the mind and enlighten the consciousness of a devotee/disciple, Teacher, spiritual preceptor, spiritual teacher.
Gurupunkti ...
The guru/disciple relationship changes with each age. Since we have started the Satya-yuga sub-period in Kali-Yuga the relationship of teacher/student is changing.
THE BLESSINGS OF GURU
(Spoken on the occasion of Guru Purnima in 1993)
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He met his Guru Swami Shivananda Saraswati in 1934 in Rishikesh and adopted Sannyasa way of life.
Guru Purnima - July 15 (Friday)
Festival of the Guru, Birthday of Maharishi Ved-Vyasa
(western calendar: Saturday, July 02 in Vep)
Sri Devpuriji's Mahasamadhi - August 01 (Monday)
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GURU STOTRA
"Salutations to the Guru who has made it possible to realise Him by whom all this world, animate and inanimate, movable and immovable, is pervaded." ...
Guru. Spiritual teacher, described as the "dispeller of darkness."
Hatha yoga. Many yoga styles spring from hatha. It is the yoga of physical well-being, designed to balance body, mind, and spirit. See article on Yoga Styles.
Guru-Yoga: The discipline relative to one's teacher
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guru: one who leads a seeker from darkness to light. "Gu" means "darkness" and "ru" means "light." Guru is therefore the spiritual master who initiates and guides a seeker from darkness to light. A master; teacher.
Guru
Spiritual preceptor, one who illumines the darkness of spiritual doubt.
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GURU DEV - Gu is short almost G. Roo (as in Runes) is also short. Deeeeeeeev is extended. Pronounced like the E in Evan.
NA MO - the same as the first.
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Guru
the syllable Gu signifies 'light', and the Ru signifies 'the destroyer of darkness'; Lit.
Guru ("he who is heavy, weighty"): a spiritual teacher, master who has attained oneness with God and who is able both to initiate seekers and to guide them on the spiritual path to liberation.
Guru: teacher; spiritual master: selfrealized soul capable to lead people on the way of selfrealization and thus to liberate from the cycle of birth and death.
Guru
Spiritual teacher. Gu means ignorance, ru means one who dispels.Thus a guru is a learned master who dispels the darkness of a student's ignorance.
Hiranyagarbha ...
Guru: A personal spiritual teacher or guide who has himself achieved spiritual insight. From at least the time of the Upanisads, India has stressed the importance of the tutorial method in religious instruction.
Guru-Yoga ("Yoga [relating to] the teacher")
a yogic approach that makes the guru the fulcrum of a disciple's practice; all traditional forms of yoga contain a strong element of guru-yoga
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Siri Guru Granth Sahib
Literally, the Great Honored Spiritual Teacher Book. It is 1430 pages of the spoken words of seven of the ten Sikh Gurus along with those of other enlighten people of many faiths.
Guru
Glossary of Sanskrit Terms
Garhasthya - The second of the four stages of human life prescribed by the Vedantic scriptures:
1. Brahmacharya---the celibate student stage
2. Garhasthya---the married householder stage
3.
Guru:
(lit., one who leads a seeker from darkness to light - Gu, Darkness; ru, light.) A master; teacher.
Guru means teacher, the dispeller of darkness who can help you see who you really are....Divine. G-U-R-U (Gee! You Are You!).
Guru - spiritual teacher
Gurupunkti - worlds or universes where gurus reside (see shishapunkti)
Hanuman - son of the wind god, depicted as a monkey; a great devotee of Rama who helped Rama in his fight with Ravana (see Ramayana) ...
GURU'S FEET:
The Indian scriptures revere the Guru's feet, which are said to embody Shiva and Shakti, knowledge and action, the emission and reabsorption of creation. Powerful vibrations of shakti flow from the Guru's feet.
Guru
one who guides us in our process of evolution and enables us to become stable in our spiritual life; dispeller of darkness; that inspiration which manifests within
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Guru is Brahman Himself. Guru is Ishvara Himself. Guru is God. A word from him is a word from God. He need not teach any. Even his mere presence or company is elevating, inspiring and soul-stirring. The very company itself is self-illumination.
The guru-shishya (teacher-student) relationship that exists without need for sanction from non-religious institutions, and which gave rise to all the great yogins who made way into international consciousness in the 20th century, ...
Every guru I met asked me to try, to test and to do. I was asked to suspend judgement only temporarily until I had my own experience, but I was never asked to simply believe.
laghu-guru [in Bengali prosody: a metrical system in which long and short vowels are given their full quantitative value; quantitative verse].
laghuta lightness, swiftness and adaptability (of the nervous and physical being).
laksana feature.
1. The guru explains to the students the teachings of vedanta and what is Brahman. He often uses stories and analogies to make his point. The students listen attentively and this step is called sravanam, which literally means listening.
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Salute your Guru and Sri Ganesa as soon as you sit in the Asana. The time for Abhyasa is early morning 4 a.m., 10 a.m., evening 4 p.m., and night 10 p.m., or 12 p.m. As you advance in practice you will have to do 320 Pranayamas daily.
By the grace of (guru) sage Vyaasa, I heard this most secret and supreme yoga directly from Krishna, the lord of yoga, Himself speaking before my very eyes. (18.75) ...
Some Yogi's and Guru's from India have described him as a "man of god". ...
Guru: A spiritual teacher or advisor who helps direct the yogi or yogini toward enlightenment. Hatha Yoga: A branch or path of yoga.
We should learn yoga from a guru who is leading a Yogic life and not from a person who himself is leading an untruthful life and teaching yoga for the sake of teaching! Everyone has his own pace of evolution depending on his conscious awareness.
The source is the Yoga Karunta (Korunta means groups), an ancient manuscript found in the archives of the Calcutta Library by Pattabhi’s guru, Krishnamacharya.
So such authentic teachers act as surrogates (such as the Adi Buddha, sat guru, kundalini, siva/shakti, the Mother/Father, or just plain Grace) for the eternal trans-personal teachings which are adjusted as to time and place, language, culture, ...
Filled with a tremendous desire for spiritual growth and enlightenment Kuppuswami went to North India in search of his Guru. After spending time in Varanasi (Banaras) he travelled north to the Himalayas.
If possible get expert personal attention and supervision from a guru.
Wear comfortable clothes and avoid garments that pinch or restrict circulation.
Exercise in your bare feet to preserve your body's natural alignment and balance.
Under the guidance of his guru, Bikram started several Yoga schools in India. These Yoga schools became so successful that Bikram toured many countries, including Japan, to open Yoga centers. There has been no looking back for Bikram since then.
Have you seen the people who go guru hunting, looking for a yogi who, in samadi, has achieved this non-attachment? These hunters go around looking at all the different yogis, and get quite worked up over this non-attachment business.
A unique process and a ceremony of initiation into Sadhnas, which a Guru performs on his disciple. It is in fact a procedure of bestowing the divine powers of a Guru to the disciple, through which he progresses continuously on the path of divinity.
One who acts according to the advice of a Guru can get rid of ignorance and all the afflictions of this world by way of dedicating himself to Lord Krishna and by rendering constant service.
Krishnamacharya in the early 1900's by his Guru Rama Mohan Brahmachari, and was later passed down to Pattabhi Jois during the duration of his studies with Krishnamacharya, beginning in 1927" ("Ashtanga Yoga").
Though I have known many yoga teachers, all of them good, some of them excellent, I have known only one Guru, the destroyer of darkness, Patricia Walden.
On the wall so yoga ashrams, (the place which usually secluded residence of a religious community and its guru) are large paintings of the cakras with all their symbols.
I bow to the lotus feet of the guru
who awakens insight into the happiness of pure Being,
who is the final refuge, the jungle physician,
who eliminates the delusion caused by the poisonous
herb of samsara [conditioned existence].
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In 1936 he was deputed by his guru to teach yoga in Pune, Western India.
In 1943 he married Ramamani. They went on to have five daughters and one son.
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I just have started yoga practice, but I feel drowsy all through the day.
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Acarya (sometimes spelled Acharya in English): a preceptor, instructor; cf. guru
Advaita ("nonduality"): the truth and teaching that there is only One Reality (Atman, Brahman), especially as found in the Upanishads; see also Vedanta ...
initiation given by a guru.
Dosha
the three humours of the body, see kapha, pitta, vata.
"My heart felt blessings to you my guru."
Dedicated to B.K.S Iyengar
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Kundalini refers to an impulse and an energy which has both personal and collective dimensions; it is enduring and can offer us guidance from within - it is our inner guru.
With the exception of hasta mudras, these techniques have traditionally been kept secret and could only be learned from a guru. A list of hasta mudras is now available in our premium yoga poses section.
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