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Title: GURU–CHELA Relationship Post by: Jitendra Hydonus on Sep 24, 2020 03:13 pm GURU–CHELA RELATIONSHIP A Guru can cut out the sinful mistakes of sexual desire (kaam) and anger (krodh), fulfilling all hopes of the devotee (108-7). The text has given a special position to the Guru, who may be interpreted to play the role of a teacher or a therapist in the life of the dukhi, showing him the way to moksha or relieving him of dukh. Without the Guru, one loses his way and wanders around in the forest (57-3). The Guru has been equated to Lord (442-18) who resolves our affairs (kaaj sawaarey) (13-15) and to a ladder, a boat, and a raft carrying the victim across the “world-ocean,” which is probably the metaphor for melancholy. He is known to fulfill the hopes of the hopeless (p17), revealing the path to peace (60-9) and having the quality of empathy (soorat) (intuitive understanding; page 18-3). When one involves self in the service of the Guru, peace (61-5) and intuitive balance (sahaj; p. 68-5) is obtained. Through the Guru's sermons (upadeis), pain and pleasure become alike (131-12), and joy (harakh) and sorrow (sog), feel the same to one's consciousness (214-13). The Guru's word has been equated with amrat (ambrosia) (185-5); suffering (dukh), agony (klesh), and fear (bhau) do not cling to those whose heart is filled with the Gurumantra (51-4). The mind, body, and soul, all are appeased (47-19). Those who suffer keep on wandering around the world begging, but get exhausted and find a solution only with the Guru in his teachings (p. 34). The solution is usually a jaap (chant), by which the name of the Lord and hence peace comes to dwell in the mind of the diseased (p. 34), leading to the state of moksha/mokha (salvation) (114-11). The Guru's word saves one from falling into hell (177-8), which may again refer to melancholy. Renouncing (tiyaag) sexual desire, anger, and greed (408-19) to seek Nirvana (219-3) has been advised. Blaming (dose) others is of no benefit and one should instead blame his or her own karma which most often leads to all the suffering (433-14). The verse, Bin gur rog na tutai, haumai peerh na jaaei, makes a reference that the disease is not cured and the pain and egotism do not go away (36-3) without the Guru. From the Guru Granth Sahib, a Sikh religious text https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3705682/ |