guru pūjā 2

There is a very beautiful story in the Mahabharat.

On a certain day, Krishna was having lunch.

Rukmini, his wife, was serving him. Krishna was a man who had taken on the whole world, so he barely got home. The chance of serving him a meal did not come often, even for his wife. It was a privilege that she cherished and valued.

Halfway through his meal, he suddenly got up and left, without even washing his hands. She said: “Please, at least finish the meal before you go.” He said: “No, one of my devotees is in trouble. I need to go!” He went till the gate, stood there for a moment, turned back... and sat down to continue his meal.

Rukmini asked: “What happened to your devotee?”... He said: “He was sitting in the forest, chanting my name, when a hungry tiger approached him.” Krishna had seen that this man was totally immer-sed in the chant, calling Krishna with total involvement, and when the tiger approached, immediately Krishna had gotten up and left.

He continued: “As I went towards the gate, the fool picked up a stone to protect himself!...

"So I’ll let him do his business!”

This is the power of choicelessness.

Guru Pooja is a device for you to make yourself utterly choiceless.

All these rituals are just that – you give yourself to a process and make yourself completely choiceless. When you are like that, even the Guru does not have a choice.

You need to make it in such a way that the Divine does not have a choice about you. It is from this that many yogis said, maybe in different ways: “Shiva has no choice about whether to be my partner or not.”

I have a choice to lose Him. But He has no choice. You must always keep Him like that, because what kind of a fool would consider losing the Divine as a choice? Only someone who has just one brain cell would. If you had two brain cells, you would clearly see that losing Him as a partner is not really a choice – it would be utter stupidity.

Guru Pooja is such a tool. You must make it in such a way, the invitation is sent in such a way that He has no choice. He has to be there.

If you create such power about simple things that you do, then the benefit of sadhana will multiply manifold.


~bron~