Guru Govind dono khade kake lagu paay.
Kabir-ji's sadhana was complete and finally God gave him darshan.
So Govinda and Guru are both standing in front of Kabir.
Now Kabir-ji says whom should I offer my pranam?
Offer to both, no no that's alright but whom should I offer to first?
Veda Vyas says "quoting Veda Vyas".
He said look on the basis of your intellect, you can never eliminate your ignorance.
Because the ignorance is seated in the intellect.
The defective intellect cannot correct itself by it's own efforts.
Swamiji I have got a defective intellect?
The scriptures say until we become God realized, as long as we are in the realm of Maya, all
of us have defective intellect.
But the Yoga Shastra, Maharishi Patanjali he points out 5 defects, avidya, asmita ,raag
dwesha, abhinivesha.
Abhinivesh is the fear of death.
The no 1 fear in life, I should not die.
When we all understand that the soul can never die, it was never born and can never die.
This fear of death is arising because we are thinking we're the body.
That is the Abhinivesh, defect in the intellect.
And the 2nd defect is that of pride.
The pride that informs us I am this body this is mine, these are all my things and hence
it leads to ego.
I have heard of the boasting competition that was taking place.
You know some people were sitting on a bench in a garden and they were boasting.
One said, you know my face resemble that of George Washington, people see me and say oh
my God you are just like George Washington come back.
The other person said that's no big deal, my face resembles that of Abraham Lincoln.
People say you know your hairstyle is just like him.
The 3rd said you know there is no big deal in that, you know who does my face resembles
to?
Whom does it resembles to?
It resembles to God!
Who gave you that misconception that you look like God?
He said the jailer, this time when I went to jail for the 4th time, the jailer saw me
he said Oh God you have come again?
So that is the ego sitting inside us.
That makes us challenge even God, why did God do this, why did God not do that.
We forget that our intellect is just 2 fingers in breadth and God's creation is immense,
it's a defect of the intellect the ego.
And then the raag- the attachment we develop to the world, though we know we have to leave
it all.
And the dwesh, the resentment we start developing.
And finally the avidya.
The thinking that I'm this body.
Maharishi Patanjali said these 5 defects are in everybody as long as we are in this material
realm.
And with this defective intellect, we can never remove our ignorance.
And that is why we need a Guru, who will teach us the divine knowledge.
The divine knowledge is in the scriptures, the Vedic scriptures.
But the Vedas themselves are saying you will understand us through the medium of a Guru.
"Quoting scriptures" So the Guru will give us the divine knowledge.
He will explain to us the process of sadhana and while doing it we will go to sleep he
will wake us up.
You see the soul by nature will go to sleep in the mode ignorance, the ignorance of maya.
There is a need of the Guru who is awake and who can keep waking up the disciple.
The Guru will protect us from the pitfalls on the path of sadhana.
And the Guru will inspire us and finally when the heart is cleansed the grace will also
come via the Guru.
That is why Narad-ji in his Bhakti Darshan has written "quotes from Bhaki darshan" This
divine love that you wish to attain will be received primarily through the grace of the
Guru and God's grace one tiny miny bit.
God will grace you and take you to the Guru, and it is through the Guru you will get all
those graces.
That is why from our point of view the Guru's position is so important.
It's just like the parents, they raise the daughter, they make her qualified in so many
ways.
They teach her so many skills, they teach her Kathak etc, singing and when has become
totally qualified one gentleman comes he takes the interview and if the selection is done
they take 7 circles around the fire and he takes her away.
Now this gentleman who took the girl after the 7 rounds did he do anything spectacular?
The spectacular effort was put by the parents who raised that girl and made her competent
in every manner.
In the same way the Guru puts in the effort in the soul.
The Guru's work is that of the 'bhangin' the sweeper, Why?
because God has a rule.
"quoting Ramayana" When your heart is fully clean I will come and show myself.
But my Lord my heart is not clean what to do?
God say's I don't know find out from the Guru.
So the Guru takes us from samaan to nirmal maan , from the unclean mind to the purified
mind.
This sweeper's work is that of the Guru.
And once the heart is all clean, now God comes.
Is this soul's drawing room alright?
Drawing room what drawing room the Guru says.
God says is his heart all clean, no more attachment left anywhere?
The Guru says absolutely complete "maam ekam sharanam braja" Now God revels himself.
And the work before that was all done by the Guru.
That is why from the point of the soul, the Guru's place becomes even more important than
God's place.
Hence today we were hearing from saint Kabir right, saint Kabir had come to us today.
Little Kabir in the drama.
Guru Govind dono khade kake lagu paay.
Kabir-ji's sadhana was complete and finally God gave him darshan.
So Govinda and Guru are both standing in front of Kabir.
Now Kabir-ji says whom should I offer my pranam to?
Offer to both, no no that's alright but whom should I offer to first?
Offer to God, he is bigger offer to the Guru afterwards he's smaller?
Kabir-ji says no Balihari Guru apane Govind dio milaya.
I will offer my pranam first to the Guru and then to God because it by the mercy of the
Guru that I have met God.
In other words my self interest was fulfilled from the Guru.