Seven Signs of a God's Messenger - A Checklist

Seven Signs of a Messenger of God

Guru is the bridge between man and God. It is said in the scriptures that God’s first creations were the Rishis. In the beginning, God revealed the secret of creation as well as all laws (dharma) first to the primordial Rishis. The secret of creation and its laws are universal, eternal, and changeless, therefore, it is called Sanatana Dharma. These laws are interpreted from time to time by Epochal Guru incarnations or Messengers of God in accordance with the evolving nature of ages.

An important revelation in the Vedic lore is that Brahman, the One God (not the trinity god Brahma) can be known only through the medium of a Guru, who has realized Brahman. However, the question is how to recognize such a Poorna Guru, a Messenger of God? The checklist is here:

1. A Poorna Guru will be a Trikala Jnani – knower of past, present, and future, which means he knows our soul and where we stand in terms of our inner evolution. He also knows the process of soul evolution through the course of Manvantara time cycles or yugas. Having known the soul and its karma, he guides us appropriately and helps upgrade our inner potency, in proportion to which, one's worldly fortunes also peak. The Poorna Guru should be able to fathom the influences that you carry, i.e. the spiritual entanglements from your past and present, and be also able to nullify them.

2. The Poorna Guru takes only the name of Absolute Brahman, which means he is not subservient to a Deva, Devi, or angel from whom spiritual energy or communication (in the form of revelation) is channelized. He must have transcended the spiritual stages of such intermediaries and submerged fully with the Supreme Light. The Poorna Guru receives direct messages in the form of visions or revelations from the Light, not through an angel or deva.

3. You may come across great gurus whose wisdom may amaze you, but check what is the object of their worship. Those who perform miracles should be totally avoided as the performance of miracles is against God. Many people channelize satanic spirits and perform miracles and healing to increase the number of followers. Performance of miracles was a feat of great yogis in the past ages - dwapara and treta, but should not be imitated in Kali Yuga. Kali Yuga is the age of jnana, karma, bhakti, and self-surrender to God. Even in Yogic science, the performance of miracles is not advised.

4. The Poorna Guru is born with the mission for a universal change. He modifies the prevailing (old) belief systems and organizes life anew. He will be the initiator of a new mantra and a way of worship transcending the distinctions of caste, creed, race, or gender. By this, be brings all people under one umbrella. The Poorna Guru is a harmonizer and will never claim that he is the only Messenger or final Messenger of God. He considers the work of all mahatmas as well as their teachings worthy to the extent of its merit. They revealed what they knew. The Poorna Guru does not coerce others to accept his teachings.

5. The Poorna Guru is the maker of man (Srishti kartha). He teaches the science of nourishing a family. Only the Poorna Guru can teach how to purify the bloodline. He teaches the secret of begetting healthy and fortunate children free from mental and physical flaws and also the knowledge of how to nurture them to their absolute potential by way of marriage between two compatible souls looking into their past lives, purity of ancestral souls, and family stock (gotra).

6. The Poorna Guru preserves the life of humanity (Sthithi Kartha). He preserves the human race by bonding them in love and compassion. He protects the balance between man and nature by means of dharma and helps the human race in its spiritual as well as material advancement.

7. The Poorna Guru helps transcend death by removing the fear of death (Samhara Kartha). He places the souls after death at appropriate mandalas in order to exhaust their karma and gives them an opportunity for rebirth in good wombs for further spiritual evolution.

We can see that the dharma and karma (Yugadharma) being observed today belongs to a remote past, i.e. Dwapara Yuga and Treta Yuga. When the laws and values appropriate to the age (yuga) are not followed in accordance with the Will of God, human civilization stagnates. In this new age of Kali Yuga, we must follow the teachings of a Poorna Guru and seek His guidance and leadership to bring about the desired transformation of human society.

God has again blessed India with a Poorna Guru – Navajyothi Sri Karunakara Guru, whose 93rd Birth Anniversary is being celebrated on 3 September 2019. By accepting His teachings and guidance, the world can overcome all the ills that it is facing today.

Sanatana Dharma Will Rule the World

“Islam and Christianity are prophetic religions which do not have a long history. Besides, there is a deviation from the time of Moses. Also these two religions have more or less performed their functions, in their respective paths. The changes brought about by the Christian and Islamic presence in India were considerable. The Christian British bettered the lot of the lower castes and educated them. They started getting sufficient to improve their physique. Some from among these sections identified themselves with the occupying suzerain and became part of the new religious and educational institutions. They soon participated in the governance and outstripped the Brahmins in cleverness. Those who embraced Islam practiced it as a rigorous discipline. They relied on physical aggression at times and expanded the areas of their influence. Still, the majority of them are disadvantaged as they came from these Hindu communities which were uncultivated in the finer graces of religious culture. However elevated these religious groups might have become through education and affluence and however long they might have stayed close to political power, there is something lacking. The refinement of Sanatana Dharma is that it comes with a virtuous way of life combining cleanliness, tidiness and humility envisaged in the Hindu way of life.
 
The Sanatana law has come to mean a mixing of myths and legends of the ancient past and more recent stories up to the propounder of the Gita. All these are put together with an eagerness to establish Advaita. Those who spout this Advaita, non-duality, are often unsympathetic to neighbors and even to their own brothers and sisters. We are talking all the time. Vedanta degenerates into pedantry. That is why a correction is difficult in this path. As far as Islam and Christianity are concerned conflicts and consequent divisions occurred within them even as they were coming up. This divisive tendency had led to disasters. It is not yet time for another coming (of a prophet or great soul), bringing peace and rejuvenating these faiths. Besides, other paramparas have not been able to go deep into spirituality as the Sanatana or perennial law of the Manvantara system. It is a matter of divine intervention. Such depth of spirituality as this is difficult to find elsewhere. And so is such extensive history and religious culture. Still more significantly, the responsibility of working for the remaining time period of this Manuparampara is vested in the Dharma of the Hindus.
The Manuparampara is the means to impart the Law of the Supreme to the world. Therefore the essence of all religions inheres in this system. An alternative to this way cannot evolve easily in the world.

India is a land of great wisdoms and great civilizations grown over vast periods of time. It should, therefore, strive to establish the perfect culture willed by the Almighty. Not only Christians or Muslims alone, all religions ought to heed this. Though each world religion is essentially part of a totality, each has been separately ennobled by many great men from time to time with their self-sacrifice and effort which have given rise to different customs and traditions. Many such traditions are visible in Hinduism itself. It is doubtful if any other religion is enriched to this extent. In order to mold life in keeping with this Age -the Kali, theologians and all believers of various religions should assess this Kali and its composite culture – the samkara mentioned in the Gita. This is a process to be achieved by the present and future generations…

A reorganization of our society, of our country, is required. All of us, believers, should free ourselves from the destructive effects of the caste system. We should overcome ethnic and religious differences. All children of this land should come together in humility and in devotion to God. That is the way to reorganize. This will give us the strength of mind, and power. The community that could contribute greatly towards this reorganization is the Brahmin community. In them intelligence, skill, ability and shrewdness blend as it were. They should give up their varnasrama caste trappings completely and lay the foundation of a composite—samkara—culture, the culture that is meant for Kali, indicated by the author of the Bhagavad Gita. They should unite with others to build a complete society, totally free from caste or class. They should not be distracted by the differences seen today. The pattern of having one mode of worship for themselves and other modes for the rest should change first. Instead of securing tantric rites people should be firm in the experiential worship of the Divine. Those who strive wholeheartedly for this should lead others who lack awareness. If we do not do this, the births of great souls would be diverted elsewhere away from our ethnic stream. The focus of redemption will move away and we will be left in a complex of Karma…” (Quoted from the book ‘A Dialogue on Human Prospects’ by Navajyoti Sri Karunakara Guru, published by Santhigiri Ashram) 

Navajyoti Sri Karunakara Guru (1927-1999) is the Founder Guru of Santhigiri Ashram at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala