The Subtle and Manifest Figure of Guru

Among a few who could realize the divine nature of Guru, Her Holiness Sishyapoojita is the foremost. I had tried to translate some of her sublime and profound words and visions although imperfectly. One such piece is here:

The Subtle and Manifest Figure of Guru
(Her Holiness Sishyapoojita Amrita Jnana Tapaswini)

I testify before the world my vision that Guru reveals indescribably, as the Guardian of the astral conception of God-ordained destiny, as the Indefinable Source of Radiance and the Conceptual Spectator, as the Ideological Thought in the primordial Vedas, as the Effulgent Sparks in the zodiacs and constellations reaching their depths, as the Minute in the Minutest, the Absolute in the Absolutes, as the Pure Resplendent Light behind all cause and effect, and as the Soul of Dharma of everything.

That Guru apportioned His life to lift up the disciple to His level is indeed great luck among luck and great virtue among virtues! However, I have witnessed every day and moment, the pain of Guru’s mind while sharing it, caused by the unbearable hurts, bitter than when the heart is dissected.
Unseen indeed is this universal God ordained Guru-Disciple bond, which becomes the loftiest example of guru-disciple relationship. Behind Guru’s sharing of His sacrificial virtue for curing the severe afflictions of the disciples is the mighty Will of God that human intelligence cannot perceive.

To mention an aptest comparison about this sharing between Guru and Disciple, it is most beautiful and delicate like the nest- building of a hornet. The wait of Guru for the sake of disciple is similar to the wait or self-denial of the hornet, which confines a worm inside a hole and waits until it comes out as a wasp. To share Guru, that would be according to the merit and right of the disciple. However, the wait of Brahman for the transformation of Guru to a state constituting the Original Will of Brahman lengthened to several ages.

Inanimate and animate beings, the oceans, waters, and all those varied manifestations are the radiating love and medium of Guru’s Will in the creation. Guru walks the disciple to the pathway of wisdom that exists as the under current in the Vedas, Upanishads, mythology, epics, Yoga Sutras etc. and to the endless plateaus of hidden spiritual secrets. Having come into that procession, I always see Guru in vision, and know Him as the one who sunders the subtle threads in the disciple’s karmic planes, as the astral substance for the building anew of panchendriyas, panchabhutas and panchakosas (five senses, five elements and five sheaths) becoming the witness of all and the fulfillments in wakeful and self-manifest states.

I have no words to describe Guru who exists as the imperishable form of human consciousness and as the everlasting expression of all that with and without form.
For many aeons, countless millions of ‘blessed abodes’ and ‘celestial soul embodiments’ were standing there claiming and beseeching (spiritual elevation). To give them what they deserved, Brahman had been keeping Guru dearly for several yugas to qualify Him for it. On its accomplishment, Word was received from Brahman that ‘what I desired for many ages has been fulfilled’. No other lineage in the world has received this luck. Ours is the first lineage, which has been blessed to receive that great luck.

Those joyful scenes savoring that luck, compassion and right are indeed astonishing. Still more astonishing are the innumerable perceptions and expressions of the tender love that Guru shares with the disciples and the beauty of the emotions of that ‘Willful (Astral) Figure’, the Witness of it. I see that ‘Willful Figure’ and ‘Wakeful Figure’ of Guru simultaneously in the physical and manifest state between the distance of a foot.

Guru stood manifesting in front of me in the astral form radiating extreme beauty and as the Supreme Radiance ablaze in glory in pure effulgent light. Forgetting myself and mustering courage, I began to think beholding that eternal form in humanly ways. ‘Now Guru cannot touch me physically’! After that, tears began to flow down from my eyes. Then Guru said:

‘You thought that you cannot touch me, didn’t you? You try and touch me!’ I not only touched but also prostrated before the physical form of Guru. And that Radiance embraced me strongly. Guru then asked:

‘Kid, what else do you want? Do you have any doubt about your divination? If you have, I would tell you’. That moment, I reached the acme of bliss. The utterly beautiful reflections of that experience existed gloriously in that atmosphere.

Beyond all the exalted verses, immersing strongly in that radiant Absoluteness, with glowing eyebrows, shapely ears, eyes closed in deep meditation, with muscles of perfect shape, with luminescent hands and feet, nails, hair and as the source of the spectrum of colors, I saw Guru glowing with extreme radiance. I also saw constellations, stars, and innumerable millions of solar systems in Him.

O’ God! You who have attired human form! Existing in your mirror image and by your Will, I adorn my soul collecting countless experiences. O’ Guru! You exist as the gracious, all-auspicious witness of ceaseless experiences, as the subtle flow of waves, as astounding joy, as the form of cause and effect and as the Supreme Radiance! You who are the all-witnessing dharma and God anointed, I pray with all my consciousness!