The Full moon day on Aashada month which falls on 3rd July, 2012 is the Janma dina (birth day) of Veda Guru "Veda Vyasar" and is celebrated as Guru Poornima. The Hindu culture strongly emphasize the importance of learning knowledge from a Guru and more importantly doing Seva (self-less work) for Guru as the foremost thing. The reasoning behind Guru Seva is to inculcate humility in the hearts of the Shishya (disciple), which is a requirement that enables the learning aspect from Sishya.
On this auspicious Guru Poornima day, I would like to share an incident from Life of Sri Krishna, which shows how Guru takes care of a Shishya both in terms of being strict and showing love towards his Shishya.
When Krishna was ruling Dwaraka, His childhood friend Sudhama visited him. They both were having friendly chat and was recollecting incidents from their childhood days at Guru Sandeepani's ashramam.
One day Krishna and Sudhama went to forest to collect dry wood as per the orders of their Guru Sandeepani. After few hours, the clouds turned black and there was a heavy downpour of rain in that region. The heavy rain had blocked the way back home and both the children (Krishna and Sudhama) find it struggling to find their way, as the roads were filled with rain water. Being afraid, both of them got hold of their hands and wandered the forest all night without food.
Guru Sandeepani not finding his Shishya's return from forest, got worried and went in search of them. After he saw both the Shishya's next morning, he felt bad on how much trouble they have gone through because of his orders. However, Krishna and Sudhama were happy to see their Guru and told that they were saved from wild animals and heavy rain because of their Guru Seva. Guru Sandeepani was pleased with their response and blessed them that the Vedic knowledge they possess would protect them forever.
This incident recollected and shared by Krishna to Sudhama conveys that while Guru is strict to his Shishyas, he is bountiful of love towards his Shishya at the same time. So as a Shishya, it is important to oblige Guru's orders, though we might not get the implied meaning behind their strict teachings.
Story taken from: "Deivathin Kural part 4" by Sri Ra. Ganapathi
On this auspicious Guru Poornima day, I would like to share an incident from Life of Sri Krishna, which shows how Guru takes care of a Shishya both in terms of being strict and showing love towards his Shishya.
When Krishna was ruling Dwaraka, His childhood friend Sudhama visited him. They both were having friendly chat and was recollecting incidents from their childhood days at Guru Sandeepani's ashramam.
One day Krishna and Sudhama went to forest to collect dry wood as per the orders of their Guru Sandeepani. After few hours, the clouds turned black and there was a heavy downpour of rain in that region. The heavy rain had blocked the way back home and both the children (Krishna and Sudhama) find it struggling to find their way, as the roads were filled with rain water. Being afraid, both of them got hold of their hands and wandered the forest all night without food.
Guru Sandeepani not finding his Shishya's return from forest, got worried and went in search of them. After he saw both the Shishya's next morning, he felt bad on how much trouble they have gone through because of his orders. However, Krishna and Sudhama were happy to see their Guru and told that they were saved from wild animals and heavy rain because of their Guru Seva. Guru Sandeepani was pleased with their response and blessed them that the Vedic knowledge they possess would protect them forever.
This incident recollected and shared by Krishna to Sudhama conveys that while Guru is strict to his Shishyas, he is bountiful of love towards his Shishya at the same time. So as a Shishya, it is important to oblige Guru's orders, though we might not get the implied meaning behind their strict teachings.
Story taken from: "Deivathin Kural part 4" by Sri Ra. Ganapathi
That was an interesting story. One of the punyam is getting a good GURU. But whoever GURU we got, we should believe that he is his/her best. That belief will make a better sishya.
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