Every Gurupurnima celebration is special, and yet, this year's was even more special. All those of you who managed to come (estimated over 700 guests) could feel an extraordinary joy and Guruji was more radiating than ever.
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Guruji also gave a particularly inspiring talk about the most important thing that we can offer Him: It is the offering of our heart.
Find an excerpt of the talk he gave below (part 1):
"All the Swamis have talked already. Now, what can be offered?...
The offering of one's heart, that is the most important. And this is – like I said in the morning- the choice. When people come and ask me: Are you my Guru? What do I answer? If you feel it. If you feel it that I am your Guru, I shall be. And when that happens it's for life.
Whether you stay or you leave. Your heart can't lie to you. This is one
thing which is very important. When one surrenders, it doesn't mean that
you should not live your life the way you live. Very often people are
scared of this word "surrender". No, surrender means, that you remember
the Master, you remember the Guru everyday. You have this gratitude,
that it is through the blessing and the Grace of the master, that
whatever you do and achieve in life, wherever you are stepping, the
master is together with you. You are not alone. And you will never be
alone.
Whether you feel the master or not, this is the duty. In the
morning I said, the Guru is even more than a mother and a father.
Because the mothers have a certain limit, in the way they see their
children. They are bound by emotion. The fathers do their duty in
bringing up the child. What else can they do? Not much. They can bring
up their children in a very rightful way, in a very nice way. But yet,
the child has its own destiny.
How many mothers come to me and tell me,
oh my son, my childern don't listen to me, my children don't love me.
Well, that is the difference. Even if the mother is the first, the Guru
one should have full resepct to the mother, one shluld have full resp to
the faterh, Bec. They hage done their duty. But when one has found
one’s Satguru, it is for life. What one can do at that moment is trust
that one is not alone. But the Satguru, the Greatest of all the Sadhu
Sant is with you. And this is what we are honoring today, not only here,
in the whole Hindu tradition. The Guru Parampara is very important. Not
only in the Hindu tradition, in the Christian tradition also, it is very
important to have a spiritual father. Why? We say always to trust
oneself, no? But there is not fully the trust there. You can’t really
count on your mind. Your mind can disguise itself so nicely and trap
you. That’s the power of Maya. The mind will always flatter you. The
mind will never tell you, you are wrong.
No one – when they do something
– will say “I’ve done something wrong, no, because one is convinced one
has done something right. But when do you something right, the reason
is also right, you don’t feel this guilt feeling. Even if you have a guilt
feeling, you try to brush it by the side, but this is the role of the
Satguru, this is the role of the spiritual teacher, to remove this
ignorance from the mind, so that you can journey towards God
Consciousness, or enlightenment. That you can reach him, this is the
sole aim - that you attain the goal of life.