A View of Santhigiri Ashram

A View of Santhigiri Ashram
Lotus Parnasala and Sahakarana Mandiram , Santhigiri Ashram, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Great Sayings of Navajyothi Sri Karunakara Guru

1. There is a situation where even if spiritual knowledge is gained one is unable to progress further making it work. One should advance by accepting a perfect Guru of experience as a guide for that to happen.
2. This ideology is the correction of a mistake that is 25 Chaturyugas old. It is the restoration of Manu Dharma willed by Brahman. Such glorious karma is being nurtured through a section of people who have no knowledge or experience of any kind.
3. The families who live doing some good deeds though minimally, wherever they may be in the world, the children born to them after 1973 will be virtuous children. They will have a special love and respect for this Guru Margam. Even the former Acharyas will be reborn through such children. The prayer and Sankalpam being done at Santhigiri are for that.
4. We who are convinced that this is the absolute truth and who are perfectly qualified for the merits of Yuga Dharma, if we treat this matter lightly, it will be the disrespect to God. It will also result in great sin.
5. The karma that we get from the Ashram leads to Mukthi making man a deva and rishi. First, stabilize the faith for that. Then realize that deva and Devi are only this much. After that adopt the worship in accordance with Yuga Dharma. This is the most truthful way.
6. What is the religious doctrine of Hindus? Someone who keeps Maatan and addresses him ‘O, Lord’. Another who goes directly to Brahman. Or the one who goes keeping guru. He who goes directly to God can never be straightened out.
7. What you have to get is the merit of your work. It must first come from God. You must think that calling God is not for God, but for you.
8. Life is not just about making money. It is not enough that money, capacity, and wealth are earned. When you have the money and capability, you will jump into a crazy course of action, owing to pride, arrogance, and lack of humility.
9. The Trimurti are the gurus of the age to which they are entitled. They are standing in the subtle. The Guru is the one who neutralizes that.
10. There is no karma here other than prayer. You can gain all the blessings and good fortune you need through your karma.
11. The Sankalpam here is that the ten-time prayers ordained to be done here should be imparted to each child and should reach the children of the world. This is our primary karma.
12. Faith must be enduring. Listening to what somebody says is not what we need. Our need is to come to the Guru and know.
13. The subject which we are working on today will exist several Chaturyugas and Manvanataras. Guru is the instrument given by God for that.
14. Love one another like children of one father forgetting male and female, big and small, caste and religion.
15. Never blame a sanyasi. He has undergone some sacrifice if nothing else. If the sanyasi is self-sacrificing, there will be some perfection in any of his actions.
16. The sanyasi and the Bhakta all arise from Grihasthashramis. Our Ashram system has been directed emphasizing this idea.
17. Some negate the temple system. It could be. But it should be with perfect knowledge. To negate otherwise is intolerance.
18. The Christians and Muslims here are those who left from the Hindus here. They left so due to the enormous hardships a section of Hindus suffered.
19. The Hindu religious doctrine is very great and all-embracing. Each of us has a responsibility to think that an error happened to it somewhere.
20. Like Janaka, a true Grihasthashrami should become the possessor of the fortune maintaining darshan with upadesha, the truth with darshan, and the dharma with the truth.
21. The Deva has no place in Kali. The place is for Guru in Kali. This truth has been told by many Mahatmas. But we couldn't honor it.
22. The Brahmin was very happy in Varnashrama Dharma. Kshatriya was given rule and Vaishya was given trade. Shudra was not given knowledge and the awareness of dharma. He only learned to imitate whomever he saw.
23. When there was no peace ever after enjoying in all ways the Westerners came here growing hair, the Beedi maker and the boatman here too began the same.
24. A child is born under the Rashi of the Pitru. An intelligent and discerning child will be born into a family that performed Pitru Shudhi.
25. If you have only two children, let them have unity. If there are ten, the ten should have that.
26. The culture that exists today makes any great person hang the head in shame before their children.
27. One cannot claim Mukti unless one goes above the Trimurti tradition and at least reaches the state of the master of Ganas (gananam pati).
28. Which should we take – the Trimurti tradition or Manu tradition? Ignoring the distance between the paths is a subject to be realized and accepted.
29. Aren’t you competing for ruination by developing science and technology too much than required?
30. The world itself is on the verge of destruction, illuminated by anuprasaram (virus spread/atomic flood?). Let us stop this leap to destruction and get ready to work for a better tomorrow.
31. We need to abandon the myth that Brahma Jnanam does not flourish in Kali. We should see Kali as the best time to develop it and the occasion to actualize it beneficially.
32. Ever since the dharma of Kali was negated, we have lost everything that belongs to us. The only thing left is the western style.
33. Ours is a Parampara that does not comprehend even after receiving Asareeri from the presence of Brahman. As a result, a Parampara that had to develop an ideology of emancipation was not only destroyed but also the true aspect of statecraft was lost to us. The occasion for the Portuguese, Dutch, and the Mughals to attack us came because we could not grasp the true aspect of statecraft.
34. A mistake happened to our forefathers and gurus. We need to know how that mistake happened. We have to get a correction from God for that mistake.
35. The people of the god of one caste cannot approach the god of another caste. What has destroyed us is the magnitude of the ignorance that has framed such a situation.
36. Born and raised in the Trimurti tradition that spans many Chaturyugas, there is the ignorance that we could not create anything of our own or could not maintain what was once ours. In other countries, many intellectuals and thinkers were born and developed science and technology and took over the fields of industry and commerce.
37. When we have the opportunity to share our love, respect, and ability, when we fail to do anything, all the good we have gained will go away.
38. There must be lasting persistence in faith. The need is not to listen to what others say. We need to come to the Guru and know.
39. If the sacrifice of a sanyasi is respected, the gain is for the householders.
40. Everything here has gone wrong because of negating Guru Dharma by citing Vedic Dharma.
41. Guru is the core of truth that resides within the bliss of Atma which consists of so many spiritual skies beyond form and formlessness.

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