Mother’s Love is the most supreme love on Earth. She nurtures and nourishes the baby within her body for 9 plus months and then gives birth to him. She feeds the baby with her milk and takes utmost care of him. The love and sacrifice of the mother for child starts when the mother holds the baby within her body and continues till she gives up her body. The mother will easily give up her life in order to save her child from any danger – perceived or real. The mother is revered as Divine, as she gives birth and nurtures and protects her baby like God gives birth to and nurtures the Universe. The mother fights tooth and nail to take care of the child and protects him as long as she lives. Despite her tremendous love for the child, there is no guarantee that she would be his mother again. After the death of the mother, the laws of Karma can take the mother away from the child and place her anywhere in the Universe.
The ParamGuru is like the mother. He nurtures and takes care of the disciple. The ParamGuru differs from the mother in a very important way. When a disciple is guru bhakta and loves his guru, the ParamGuru takes care of his disciple in this life and all other lives too. The ParamGuru is not a body. He is a principle of Supreme Godhead which manifests itself at any time through the five elements or its combinations. The ParamGuru is with the disciple throughout the life of the disciple in his present body and after death in forthcoming bodies and guides him to the Supreme. The disciple should be full of love for the ParamGuru and live in manner which helps the ParamGuru to help him.
Consider this story. There were many fishes in a river. Some were small and some were large. They had different types, colors, characteristics and qualities. Amongst these fishes lived one large fish who always survived the onslaught of the fishermen who came to the river to fish and cast their nets. This fish was considered super hero amongst the fishes. Once a little fish asked him how he managed to survive so long. The super hero fish replied: you must be free from anger, greed and ignorance. Each time the fisherman comes in with a fishing line and a worm don’t let greed overcome you and rush to catch the worm and eat it. If you do so you will be caught in the hook. When the fisherman casts his net don’t think you are cleverer than him and that you can escape the net. If you think so and are careless, he will catch you. If you are very near his feet and keep yourself behind him, you will not be caught by the net or fishing line when he casts it. I have followed this rule and have escaped being caught by the fishermen till now.
We must be like the super hero fish. Let us let go of anger, lust, greed, pride, need for vengence and attachment. Let us always be near the feet of the ParamGuru. Let us walk behind him. Then the threats and dangers of the world will not entangle us. The lures of the material world, the desperate desires, attachments which can keep us entangled and caught in the cycle of births and deaths will not be able to entrap us if we are at the feet of the ParamGuru and following his teachings. Being at the feet of the Guru is not a physical act. It is a mental surrender to the Supreme Power within the Guru which guides us in the right manner towards the Supreme.
Surrender at the feet of the ParamGuru and follow him. You are protected from the lines of ensnarement of this world and the nets of cycle of births and death.
