When the disciple sits in
front of the Guru, it is darshan. Darshan in silence is the most beneficial.
The boost one receives from the Guru’s Aura is powerful and will affect the
quality of mantra japa and meditation later. The radiation from the Guru’s body
means exposure to cosmic light and cosmic sound of Aum. Sitting in front of the
Guru in silence gives great peace to body and mind. The emanations of Love and
Peace from the Guru permeate the system and heal.
When the disciple is with the
Guru, he should sit in respectful silence. There is no need to ask questions.
His focus should be on the Guru. He must pay full attention to what the Guru is
saying. By doing so, he will learn invaluable lessons which are difficult to
learn and know and can’t be otherwise easily learnt. The Guru knows what
information is needed for boosting the disciple’s progress and what
knowledge to impart and which questions to answer. There is no need for the
disciple to ask.
If the disciple sits in front
of the Guru with his focus on the questions he seeks to ask, the darshan will
be incomplete. All his attention and energy will be focused on the question to
be asked and he will wait for the right opportunity to ask the question. The
attention will be on the gaps in the talks in order to raise the questions and
not in the meaning of what the Guru speaks. By doing so he loses both the
knowledge imparted by words and also will not be able to absorb the radiations
and blessings from Guru as there is no silence in him.
There is no need to ask
questions to the Guru. He answers most of the questions unasked. Even if the
question is not answered by the Guru, the blessings of the darshan always
smoothens the problems and the solution to the problem is arrived at. Generally
the disciple wastes his entire energy and attention in asking a question of no
consequence to growth of self or spiritual rising. The disciple should speak
only when the Guru asks him if he wishes to ask something.
The Guru has enormous capacity
to give. Let the disciple sit in silence and take as much as he can.
