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EDITORIAL  Guru-tattva On Guru Purnima BY RASHBEHARIDAS CALCUTTA, INDIA, Jul 21 (VNN) — Guru-Purnima tithi celebrated by His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj in Calcutta (Kolkata). The appearance day of Sri Krishna Dipayana Vyas Deva was celebrated in Sree Chaitanya Gaudiya Math, Calcutta on 5th of July, 2001. The President Acharya of the Math (Srila B. B. Tirtha Goswami Maharaj) started Guru-Puja himself by offering Puja to the Founder-Acharya Nityalila Pravishta His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj. Then a vigorous Sankirtan followed. The devotes offered Pshpanjali to Guruvarga. Speaking on the occasion, Srila B. B. Tirtha Goswami Maharaj said, Guru mukha padma vakya, chitete kariya ekaia, aar na kariho mane asha. In the extracts from the sermons delivered by His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad 108 Sree Sreemad Bhakti Dayita Madhava Goswami Maharaj, founder of Sree Chaitanya Gaudiya Math Organisation (Regd.) on the holy day of His advent on Utthan Ekadasi Tithi in 1967 at Sree Chaitanya Gaudiya Math, 35, Satish Mukherjee Road, Calcutta-26: To me Gurudeva manifests himself in four forms, viz: 1. Gu + Ru Who destroys ignorance. Appearance of Absolute Knowledge Bhagavan removes ignorance. Hence, original Guru is Bhagavan. 2. He who has engaged me in the service of Bhagavan directly, is the second appearance of my Sreela Gurudeva Most Revered Nityalilapravishtha Prabhupad Sreemat Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur, Founder of the worldwide Sree Chaitanya Math and Sree Gaudiya Math Organisation. 3. Vaishnavas are the third appearance of Gurudeva. What do they do? As Gurudeva always engages His disciples in the service of His object of worship, Vaishnavas also do the same. 4. Disciples are the fourth manifestation of Guru. They, as disciples, actually do the work of a Guru, i.e. they engage myself always in the service of Gurudeva. There is no scope of doing any anti-devotional act of violation. If there is any violation, they will detect it. Hence, disciples are also my Guruvarga. Disciples perform Gurupuja by singing the glories of Gurudeva, I perform Gurupuja by hearing. But by hearing the glories, if I have got the evil motive of misappropriating it, it will not be Gurupuja. As chanting is bhakti, hearing is also bhakti. In whatever way devotees may express their hearts, they are all my objects of worship. Then Srila B. B. Tirtha Goswami Maharaj spoke on the essence of the Guru-Purnima. By the Geace of a bonafide Guru, the cycle of births and deaths is overcome. The puja of all of the Guru Parampara (preceptorial channel) is performed on the Guru-Purnima day. But the cache here is: to perform this Guru-Puja under the guidance and direction (anugatya) of a pure devotee. If we do in this way, we can get the service of the Lotus Feet of the Supreme Lord. The Guru-Puja will be successful only if the directives of Gurudev are followed. The greatest of the greatest Guru is Srimati Radharani! This Ashadi-purnima tithi is celebrated as the Vyas-Puja day. Today is the disappearance day of Sri Sanatan Goswami.Guru manifests in different forms. Sri Sanatan Goswami and Sri Vyas Dev are non-different. By remembrance of Guru-Vaishnava-Bhagwan we can achieve all. The programme was attended by a large number of devotees, who offered pushpanjali to Gurudev! More to follow. Vaishnavadasanudas, Rashbeharidas GOKUL, INDIA (Reporting from Calcutta)  Comment on this storyContact VNN about this storySend this story to a friend
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