The Pearl of Wisdom - Chapter 4

CHAPTER 4

The Four Gurus

Disciple: Swami, O Guru, who is good and who is bad among these gurus? What respective work do they perform? Please explain it to me.

Guru: Son, I shall tell you its subtlety. It is said that one among these gurus is the Asuru Guru (teacher or preceptor of the Asuras-Sukran). One is the guru of lust. Another is the guru of intoxication and yet another is the Gnana Guru (guru of wisdom). They symbolize the four religions. These four gurus join together and silence truth, make god of stones, turn duty into ashes, elevate pride, falsify patience, turn sakthi (power) into ash, ruin moksha (salvation), make race a source of pride, make religion a precious stone, exalt the family, destroy the saints, ridicule the elders, turn gnanam (greater wisdom) into a jackal, treat worldliness as life and make the Ultimate One the fisherman’s basket for catching fish. They convert affection to friendship and consider the weak objects as strong.

They lack intelligence and are unmindful of discrimination. Forgetful of day and night, forgetful of birth and death, they focus both eyes inside the genital organs ignorant of its meaning. They open their eyes and gaze. They look and look, blink and blink and laugh and play. Not sending their senses on the straight path, they enter into this net and show continuous affection. They commit these acts in order to develop the body with the one-span of stomach. They burn religion and philosophy into ash to further their ends. Further, in order to look after their wives and children, they follow the path chosen by them, thinking that they have acquired the required knowledge. Inspired by selfish motives, they think that whatever they consider is the great religion. They divide race, ruin the mind, torment life and forget the The Almighty One! Dividing them into several forms, naming them with names and forms of various gods, they commit sins, discrete analytical wisdom and forget the All- Pervading One! They mesmerise the world, silence true wisdom, give life to the physical sciences and consider false science as truth, saying, "What I say is supreme. Look here. He is my god". So saying, they show the darkness. There is no One God. All what you say is false. Your religion is false. You are also false. Your god is false. What I say is the truth. My religion is the exalted one. My race is the best. All else is false. Look at this earth. “ So they argue, saying what comes to their tongue and moving around with falsity. They live as the great reverential gurus, accepting as their own, their stomachs, their lives and their children in order to protect them. They praise their own virtues. Even the great learned gurus and the mystics so transform themselves. This is their fate. One crore earns through work Seven crores eat through deceit. This is how the saying goes. These tactics are the examples of deceitful living. Those who are enamoured by this world are the so-called Mahagnanis (great learned men). O Son, believing in God, man must surrender his character to him. The man who exists with a compassionate heart, born as man, living as man, residing as man, realising night and day, knowing death and birth will not be caught in the net of these gurus. Did you listen, my disciples, gems of my eyes ? Did you listen to the novelties of the so-called gurus of the four religions?

Disciple: Swami. O Great Guru, is there anyone, born as man who is steadfast and truthful and who preaches the truth?

Guru: Listen child. There is! There is! I shall tell you. He is the Lord who is too mighty to know. He is the Lord of the crores of the universes. He is the Incomparable. He has no helper, no race, no differences, no madness, no country, no abode and no self-respect. He has no self-esteem, no religion, no philosophy, no resonance and nor is He within resonance. He is not there. He has no religion and nor is He within religion. He is unlimited. He has no equal. He has no language and no temple and nor is He within a temple. Let me say further. Among these four religions, there are those who believe in the Incomparable God. They discard arguments like "You are great and I am great" and praise only the Lone God. They worship Him with a melting heart. You must worship Him in a way where your sea of compassion will surge, opening the eye of grace. Unaided you must worship the Helpful Lord, who sustains the two worlds. You must not keep Him in this and that, in stone, in tree, in bronze, in sivam (religion of Siva), but worship Him within your heart, opening the inner- eye, not confining to religion and race, not regarding anything else as comparable, not allowing the mind to run here and there, even for a second. You must reach within your heart for the Primal One who encompasses the entire universe with tranquillity and virtue. You must rejoice within your wisdom with an exuberant heart, devoid of deceit and animosity and with self-awareness. You must forget the world, discard woman with self- effaciveness and eliminate the desire for them. You must praise the real God, the Gem of the Eye, the Embodiment of Compassion in order to cast away women.

The True Guru

The best among these gurus is he who day and night, every hour and minute devotes both his breath and his speech with love for the Primal One. He entrusts his body, wealth and soul to the Rightful Owner, converting his heart into a kovil (temple), dispelling all thoughts, cleansing the qulb (heart) and rejoicing in prayer, recital and worship. He is the true guru who conducts himself in this manner in all the four religions, without wasteful arguments, without wasteful exercise of his tongue and without vain jabbering. He shows the particulars of reality, eradicates the three evil qualities of egoism, karma and maya, erases the six karmic evil forces of the mind, namely, kaama (lust), krosha (animosity), mocha (greed), lobha (miserliness), matham (bigotry) and machariyam (envy). He destroys the strong enemy of the mind and does not waste his useful life. He changes a wasteful life into a good life with a melting heart. He keeps the Lord in his heart and does not allow Him to depart even for a day. He keeps Him tied with the rope of love. He is the guru who has taken the exalted human form. Born as human, he lives a rare life, rightfully merging with God and associating with Him.

The fifteen other gurus get together to torment him, assault, push, pelt him with stones, throw thorns, dismantle the body, break the teeth, break the bones, abuse him, backbite him, slander him and send him out of this world. Born in this earth and taking the form of men, these gurus get entangled in their delusion. They clothe themselves in different attire and take different stances. They believe in their own self-infused ways. Those gurus among them who are pelted with stones, have their bones broken, their teeth plucked out, abused with words and driven away, can become excellent and perfect gurus. Know this my children, my disciples with pulsating hearts.