Guru Kripa.......

Our Guruvar Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj is grace and kindness personified. It means grace is all around, both inside and outside. This is how he truly is. The word Kripalu itself means one who showers grace and kindness all around. One may come to him with good intention or bad he will impart his grace on all regardless of their intention. It seems the whole existence of our Guruvar is made of grace. Every moment of life whether he is sleeping or awake, he is bestowing his grace on all living beings. The day we accept him as hundred per cent Kripalu, the Embodiment of Grace, we will attain our goal.

Gurum bhajati Shree Krishnah Shree Krishnam bhajate Guruh.

Siddhant-tastva-bhedepi Kripalurme Gurur-mahan.

(A true Guru is the form of the power of grace which is synonymous with God, thus) Guru adores Krishn and Krishn adores Guru. Virtually both are one and the same, however my supreme Guru, is still superior (because it is he who redeems the transgressions of a devotee, fosters our devotional love for Radha Krishn and makes him qualified to receive Their Divine vision).

Yasya sakchat bhagwati gyandeep-prade Gurau.

Martya siddheeh shrutam tasya sarvam kunjar shauchavat.

The Guru who ignites the flame of Divine knowledge in the heart of a devotee is God Himself but, the one who considers the Divine Guru as a human being (even though he may have accumulated great liyeral knowledge of the scriptures), is completely ignorant and his spiritual knowledge is totally useless like an elephant's bath.

Esha vai Bhagwan sakchat pradhan purusheshvarah.

Yogeshwarair-vimrigyam-ghrir-lokoyam manyate naram.

Whose Gracious foot dust is desired by the great yogis and gyanis and Who is the supreme controller of soul and maya, He Himself descends on the earth planet as Guru. But, (see the fallacy of the world that,) the ignarant souls think of him as an ordinary human being.

I want to take every spiritual aspirant along on the path of progress and I will certainly help him unles he himself is unwilling to proceed. How can it be that I will leave anybody half way in his spiritual journey! The progress of a particular person depends on the situation in which he is. Till such time as he keeps himself away from the path of devotion, he will be away from the Guru's protection. Kripalu will also be kind to take him again in his fold, even though that person had committed innumerable sins before..

The only price one has to pay for God realization is to surrender to the Guru. why do not people surrender to the Guru? It because they are not sincere in performing the duties given to them by the Guru. For example when they are instructed by the Guru to participate in the kirtan (chanting of God's name), they tend to think that the kirtan will continue until the next morning and the Guru having left to retire, they can also go to sleep and rejoin the kirtan early in the morning. And the Guru will never come to know of it. This insincerity in one's nature is the cause of one's downfall. This is the reason why people fall down on their way to their cherished goal. When the Guru asks you for something why should you consult your intellct? why don't you think that when you were born, you did not even have the clothes on your body? They were given to you either by God or by the Guru. So if everything that you have belongs to the Guru, why do you hesitate for a moment to part with it? Think on it over and over again.

God and the Saints are the two personalities who may appear as if They ere not part of a sadhak's existence by Their external behavior; They can make him feel the pangs of separation, whereas in fact They are never separate from him internally. Even when our mortal body leaves us They continue to be with us. They are with us even in the hell and also in the Vaikunth, the abode of Vishnu. We should never entertain the thought that They will leave us alone. We should not only think but feel so....

So giving the spiritual knowledge is a great grace of the guru. The knowledge which we could not gain despite having made all efforts in infinite number of lifetimes, the same knowledge was so easily given to us by our Guru. The degree of benefit will therefore depend on how much faith you have, how important or valuable is the Guru in yor estimation and how mch detached you are. It is the Saint's second big grace that he gave you the spirital knowledge... So about the IMPORTANCE OF THE SAINT, the more you realize the more benefited you will be. If you have seen the Saint just once, this itself is a special grace on you. No amount of rituals, sacrifices, charity and penance can get you the association of a Saint. It may be possible for one to see God, but it i not so with the Saint as he is greater than God.

If we are able to do something good, if a tear trickles from our eyes for God, if we have some good word and noble feeling for the Guru, we must conclude that it is all due to the Guru's grace.We must always keep in mind that if we had not met the Guru, if he had not shown us the way, and had not given us his love and affection, we would not have inclined towards God.We should attribute our good deeds to the God's grace and the grace of the Guru and for all the wrong that we may have done, we should hold ourselves responsible.

Do not spoil your idle time. In fact, we do not make good use of our spare time and that causes negative feelings of despair to set in. The best remedy of this problem is not to let your mind remain idle. Wherever you go, engage yourself in the thoughts of God.So the only way to get rid of frustration is to contemplate repeatedly on the Guru's grace.....

What else can you offer? Is it some material thing that you would offer? But EVERYTHING IN THIS WORLD BELONGS TO HIM. How can you say it is your? Did you bring it along from your mother's womb? If you offer God some water, that water itself is of this earth and it belongs to God. Then what is your own? This body of yours too was formed in your mother's womb by God's grace. Only your sins are your own, on which you can claim your right.

Just Think.. How Lucky You Are!!

Just think, we got this human body, we were born in India*, we got an association of a Saint who gave us the spiritual knowledge. Now consider how many of the world population are blessed with this fortune which we have got? How many of them, in thousands or lakhs are there who have received the grace of God as we have? Surely, you will realize that they are very few. Ponder over it time and again how great God’s grace on you is. If even a second before you die you are able to realize that you are so lucky to have received God’s grace in various forms, and that you have got the love and affection of a Saint who has always benefited you with his grace, then you will curse yourself if still despair has any place in your life.

" O ungrateful mind! I curse you. You are mean, miserable, wretched and yet God is so kind to you that he took you under his protection. And you have the audacity to ignore His Grace, to cause Him sadness. It is true that as He has crossed all limits of kindness and forgiveness, you have on your part crossed all limits of meanness and sinful acts. Why don't you take a pledge from today iteself to devote yourself completely to make Him happy? And the only way to make Him happy is again to take a pledge that -

we will not entertain any ill feeling for anybody even if he has used most hueting expression for us. We will always do a soul searching and be ever ready to correct our faults."

In this situation you should surrender your intellect to his holy feet and the despair will vanish. And if you die after the despair is gone, your life in your next birth will be full of hape and good luck. Therefore, always think how lucky you are to be blessed with the All Gracious Master. He is the embodiment of grace. Grace outside, grace inside, grace and only grace............

Jagadguru Mukharbind se......

Remember, that whenever any finally believes that Radha Krishn and Their name are one and the same and both have exactly the same Divine virtues and powers, at the very moment the soul becomes God realized; write it down in golden words.

God is so Gracious, He says, “I am omnipresent everywhere, but (O souls) you don’t recognize Me; I am in Golok, but there you cannot come; I am in your heart, but you don’t realize it; for your convenience I have thus kept ‘Myself’ in My ‘name’ and have revealed it in the world.”

Whenever your mind will fully conceive this Divine reality that I am truly and totally in My name, your voice will be choked while taking My name and even once when you will say “Radhey” your whole being will be thrilled with the excessive love; your mind will be drowned and your heart will be unceasingly overwhelmed with the felicity of the exhilarating Bliss of the name. Thus there is no delay in God realization and receiving the Divine Grace of your Master (Guru). Trust in these words,and see what your Master and krishn do for you...