The real Guru

[dattaswami]

The real Guru

GURU means the preacher who removes ignorance – darkness by emitting knowledge – light. The field of the context is important here. If you are ignorant of mathematics, a teacher may remove your ignorance about mathematics by teaching mathematics. Such a teacher cannot be called as Guru. Guru is the preacher who diverts you towards God by removing your ignorance about God. This is the most important field for any human being because it is the basis of every aspect of life here as well as there after death. The final knowledge of God is to know that you are always ignorant of God, because God is unimaginable or ever unknown. Thus, to know the ignorance about God is knowledge.

Whatever you know relates to the item of creation only because the Creator is always unknown. Veda says that in the case of the subject about God, ignorance is Knowledge and Knowledge is ignorance (Yasyaamatam Tasya Matam). Shri. Saibaba suggested to Nana Chandolkar about the possibility of introducing the word ignorance (Ajnanam) in the place of Knowledge (Jnanam) in a verse of Gita. By this the verse means that the spiritual preachers will preach the ignorance and not the Knowledge.