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Guru Gita

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Guru Gita 3/148 Luckless week willed those reproach guru gita Those avert of guru seva they fall into worst hell. Shiva says: it's the unlucky who criticise Gurugita. Those who abuse Guruseva will fall in the worst of Hell. One day Kumar, a new inmate joined Shri Yukteswar's Ashram. Kumar soon acquired the like of the Master. Mukundan was instructed to shift to cooking and cleaning and Kumar was deputed for overall Supervisor. Kumar soon developed pride, and began to insult other inmates. Kumar set out for home disobeying Master. A year later Kumar returned to the Ashram. Gone was the stately Kumar with serenely glowing face. He had acquired many evil habits, unsuited for monastic Hermitage life. Sankara the great Vedantist has written " Ultra-sensual bliss is thus extremely easy of attainment and is far superior to sense delights which always end in disgust." Let us pray to Lord Krishna and Radha to bless us and to give the Love Eternal. Hari Om.

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My grandmother's trembling fingers traced the tanpura strings as she hummed ancient Carnatic ragas in our cramped apartment. She never sought recognition, only the pure transmission of sound through generations. When I posted her singing online, thousands responded with heart emojis and shares. The modest income helped pay her medical bills without burdening our family. Yet watching numbers climb felt hollow against Kannadasan's poetry about true wealth. Real richness, he wrote, flows from giving without expectation. My grandmother smiled, unbothered by metrics. She simply continued singing, knowing that someday, someone's granddaughter would inherit these melodies, carrying our lineage forward into eternity, unbroken and sacred.