A Tribute: by ~ Surbhi Kesar
“Guru”: The one who teaches you the “gur” of life! They say he has a parent, a friend, a helper and partner. Parent, how?
Many people identify their children as the ones carrying their gene and that’s what gives the children, the characteristics of their parent. So however did the guru transfer the gene? Dr. O.P.Sharama “Sarathi”, I didn’t have a long personal association with him but I can totally identify him as a parent of my family, so to so the family with whom I have the highest level of intimacy, my spiritual family. Cause believe it or not, they have his genes. Maybe today he is not present around physically and describing him is something impossible, because he is sometimes described as an ocean by one of his disciples, an epitome of mystery and the unknown. But I se
e his family carrying his genes. There can’t be a single adjective describing him but I hear him when my family members strike the melodious notes on sitar, not as enchanting as his, but a great one in making. I hear him in the beat of the tabla played by another member of this family whose tabla beats come from the heart, a description of the innocence and purity of Guruji’s beats. I’d call it a gene. I hear his gene singing in the voices of the members singing some ragas, surely not even close how perfect his was, but truly as a child who tries to live up to a father’s expectations. I see him in the paintings of another member of the family who paints, trying to put on the canvas few gurs she has learnt from the magician of colours, whose palette was a colourful and divine vast world in itself. When I read the writings of the people in this family, I am amazed as to how by no hereditary lineage in writing, they can write some amazing pieces which take birth in their minds. Surely a gene of the charioteer of this family! When one sits to meditate, one can feel the energy of this great guru.
I again say I haven’t had a long personal association with him but with in my family and within myself I can feel being a part of him. I can feel such works and blessings, art forms and meditative energy, keeping him alive in us. He is like that garland of pearls from which when the string of breaths was removed, each pearl appeared distinctively, but each aspired to be that garland again.
So I don’t know about you but my guru has surely been a great parent who has passed on his gene to each of his child and fills and inspires them to be like their parent.
A Tribute: by ~ Surbhi Kesar
“Guru”: The one who teaches you the “gur” of life! They say he has a parent, a friend, a helper and partner. Parent, how?
Many people identify their children as the ones carrying their gene and that’s what gives the children, the characteristics of their parent. So however did the guru transfer the gene? Dr. O.P.Sharama “Sarathi”, I didn’t have a long personal association with him but I can totally identify him as a parent of my family, so to so the family with whom I have the highest level of intimacy, my spiritual family. Cause believe it or not, they have his genes. Maybe today he is not present around physically and describing him is something impossible, because he is sometimes described as an ocean by one of his disciples, an epitome of mystery and the unknown. But I se
“Guru”: The one who teaches you the “gur” of life! They say he has a parent, a friend, a helper and partner. Parent, how?
Many people identify their children as the ones carrying their gene and that’s what gives the children, the characteristics of their parent. So however did the guru transfer the gene? Dr. O.P.Sharama “Sarathi”, I didn’t have a long personal association with him but I can totally identify him as a parent of my family, so to so the family with whom I have the highest level of intimacy, my spiritual family. Cause believe it or not, they have his genes. Maybe today he is not present around physically and describing him is something impossible, because he is sometimes described as an ocean by one of his disciples, an epitome of mystery and the unknown. But I se
e his family carrying his genes. There can’t be a single adjective describing him but I hear him when my family members strike the melodious notes on sitar, not as enchanting as his, but a great one in making. I hear him in the beat of the tabla played by another member of this family whose tabla beats come from the heart, a description of the innocence and purity of Guruji’s beats. I’d call it a gene. I hear his gene singing in the voices of the members singing some ragas, surely not even close how perfect his was, but truly as a child who tries to live up to a father’s expectations. I see him in the paintings of another member of the family who paints, trying to put on the canvas few gurs she has learnt from the magician of colours, whose palette was a colourful and divine vast world in itself. When I read the writings of the people in this family, I am amazed as to how by no hereditary lineage in writing, they can write some amazing pieces which take birth in their minds. Surely a gene of the charioteer of this family! When one sits to meditate, one can feel the energy of this great guru.
I again say I haven’t had a long personal association with him but with in my family and within myself I can feel being a part of him. I can feel such works and blessings, art forms and meditative energy, keeping him alive in us. He is like that garland of pearls from which when the string of breaths was removed, each pearl appeared distinctively, but each aspired to be that garland again.
So I don’t know about you but my guru has surely been a great parent who has passed on his gene to each of his child and fills and inspires them to be like their parent.
I again say I haven’t had a long personal association with him but with in my family and within myself I can feel being a part of him. I can feel such works and blessings, art forms and meditative energy, keeping him alive in us. He is like that garland of pearls from which when the string of breaths was removed, each pearl appeared distinctively, but each aspired to be that garland again.
So I don’t know about you but my guru has surely been a great parent who has passed on his gene to each of his child and fills and inspires them to be like their parent.
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