This goes almost without saying a word: Guru Yantra is a yantra constructed with the Guru, one’s spiritual teacher or master, as the central focal point used in meditation. To focus on His spiritual eye often marked by kumkum and called a bindu or point is especially beneficial connecting your ajna chakra with His egoless and pure ajna chakra bringing about expansion and bliss.

Is a Guru necessary?

You may ask, is a guru necessary on one’s spiritual path. My only answer to this question is absolutely yes. Many seekers believe that you can do without a guru, afterall you have your inner guru, etc. There is also a lot of misconception, confusion and doubt around this subject. From my own experience I can tell you feeling deeply connected to your guru will tremendously help in your spiritual progress. We all spiritually progress, even without a guru but it is on a much slower scale and enlightenment will dawn many lifetimes later than with a guru. So why not take the shortcut of a guru disciple relationship to get yourself out of endless sufferings that the ego mind brings along. Your life can be highly enriched flowering with bliss and many more good things.

A Glimpse of what the Guru does for you

His ways are rather mystical. Guru works on you at times without you knowing it, at other times he and your ego are ‘fighting’, you resist the change, don’t want to let go of conditioning and old patterns that don’t serve you anymore. Then there are times when all simply flows, His grace. Guru works on your health, physical and mental well-being; on your spiritual growth in so many ways. He removes the cancer of ‘I, my and mine’. Guru liberates you from bondage, the clutches of the mind, through his words, his presence, his body language or any of his other mystical ways. He ‘teaches’ trust in Self and Existence, expansion, compassion, being in the present moment, how to go beyond the mind… and holds your hand as long as needed eventually turning guru bhakti into atma bhakti. Bliss, peace and freedom are no more mere book knowledge but become your own experience. And you will realize that all along Guru was a bridge and it was you who liberated yourself from your self.

As it says in the Guru Gita: I bow down to the Guru, by whose grace the One infinite Reality that pervades the manifestation, is revealed; who opens the eyes of the one blinded by the darkness of ignorance, with the balm of knowledge; who burns up karma created by accumulated actions of innumerable births by igniting the fire of self-knowledge…

The guru disciple relationship rightly understood one cannot help but celebrate His existence.

Guru Purnima and Bhiksha

Guru Poornima is the most auspicious day for all those on the spiritual path.  It is an occasion to offer gratitude to the Guru and receive His grace and blessings. Guru Poornima is a chance to rededicate yourself to the Guru, his teachings and his mission.

Out of gratitude the disciple offers Bhiksha to the Guru. You may offer about anything like flowers, fruits, money, rice, offering puja, or anything else. The material gifts you give are symbolic of the ahamkara or ego of the disciple which is the only thing the Guru asks for – the limited identity of the disciple, so he may leave it behind and grow into the limitlessness of Cosmic Consciousness.

Guru Purnima is the only day the Guru accepts anything that is given to him from the heart. This simple act of giving is said to burn many lives of accumulated karma. Ones karmas can get burnt away in the presence of an enlightened master who is the bridge between you and the universal consciousness that we call God.

Happy Guru Purnima!

Resources:
Guru Gita excerpt from Do Guru Puja yourself
Offer Gratitude to the Master
Seeds of Wisdom

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