Matha Gitananda Ashram
TRADITIONAL HINDU MONASTERY
Guru Purnima
"Homage and prostrations to Thee, O Vyasa Bhagavan, You are free from ignorance, you have created the sweet nectar called Bharata, which can be drunk with both hands whenever it is heard."
On this occasion, through the homage to the Guru, the disciple makes the deeper his love and devotion. Start a spiritual practice on this day is very auspicious. Generating fresh spiritual waves, all that you hear, you see, you learn, you read in this auspicious day has to be transformed into sadhana and selfless service, awakening an unshakable faith and love for the Supreme inside themselves.
The full moon day of the month Ashada is the sacred and auspicious day Gurupurnima, sacred to the memory and Brahmavidya Guru Vyasa who composed the Vedas, 18 Puranas, the Mahabharata and the Bhagavata. With these works was made a great service to humanity. In the age of Kali Yuga, the memory is short, the spiritual faculties are weak, why Vyasa, the compiler, compassionately, has drawn up, with his enlightened mind, a cultural heritage of inestimable value to regenerate the man of kali yuga by leading the development and implementation. From this day begins Chaturmasa, withdrawal period, during the rainy season, for the study of the scriptures. The constant study of these scriptures, live and praticarne principles to regenerate humanity is the gesture of profound gratitude that you might have to Vyasa.
On this day, all the mahatma, sadhu, Masters honor the Vyasa puja, and the devotees honor their Guru with dakshina or acts of charity, made with deep faith and sincerity. Fruit and milk symbolize purity and simplicity. To the disciple this is a really happy day, because it can make a sincere tribute to his beloved Guru showing the best part of himself, through the actions that his devotion suggests. The love and devotion to the Master must always be demonstrated, in fact, according to the scriptures, a student is not qualified to sadhana and can not be accepted by a master, unless it can prove with actions devotion in his heart.
It is a spiritual celebration that is celebrated in the month of Ashada (June-July) by the disciples who follow a spiritual path under the guidance of a teacher. On this day we celebrate the sage Vyasa, the legendary teacher who transmitted the sacred knowledge of the Vedas to his disciples for the good of humanity. On the banks of the Yamuna River, a fisherman was carrying passengers from one side of the river. One day, after a good catch, gutting a huge fish, he found two infants: a male and a female. The fisherman went to the king to ask for explanations, and he answered that it was a particular fruit birth of intrigues among the gods. The boy lived with the king until he became king of fish. The girl, who was brought up by the fisherman, because of his birth, smelled of fish. Kali call (dark skin) or Matsyagandhi (one who smells like fish), later received the name of Satyavati. She grew beautiful, with many moral qualities, sometimes helped his father to ferry the passengers on the raft.
One day while his father was resting, came a rishi, Parasara, who had to cross the river and just saw Satyavati fell in love. Satyavati accompanied him on the other side. During the trip, the rishi was overwhelmed by the sudden passion for the girl who, fearing a rishi curse, did not resist. He created an artificial island in the river surrounded by a thick fog, from which, abducted from his wine of love, were wrapped. The rishis, the great joy of the girl, thanks to his powers, replaced the smell of fish that she gave off a delicate scent of musk and exclaimed: "Now you can go back in your world, but here bear a son who will be a great rishis ". She bore a son who immediately became adult, with a strong appearance, vigorous. Speaking to the mother, she said soothingly: "Go, do not worry about me. When you need think of me and I shall come straight to your aid." Vyasa walked away into the forest, and so began his long life of tapas, meditations and offers.