GURU POORNIMA-SIGNIFICANCE

Dear SELF, GURU POORNIMA falls from Thursday, July 14th from 12.45 PM to Friday, July 15th 12.08 PM and some people celebrates either ob July 14th or July 15th according to individual choice and convenience!

Undoubtedly, Guru Poornima is the most auspicious day for various reasons.
Guru is the mediator between human & Brahman, the Ultimate. If Brahman is angry Guru can protect us but if Guru gets angry even Brahman (Please do not mistake with Brahma, the creator or brahmin who happens to be born in brahmin family) cannot protect us. Such is the importance of Guru and this is the day to show our gratitude towards Guru.
From Adi Guru who is Shiva to the present Guru like Sri Bharathi Tirtha of Sringeri Sarada Peetham who is an Andhra from Guntur district! and this tradition is termed as Guru Parmapara which is one of the main features of our sacred Sanatana Dharma which is the correct description which is meant for all humanity & all the creation of both living & non-living in the planets and not Hinduism which we all know which is for only a small sect of creation. Please click the link below to read about Guru Parampara

http://www.sringeri.net/jagadgurus

This most sacred day is also named as Vyasa Poornima for what this great immortal soul has done for the humanity by dividing the eternal literature in to 4 and wrote so many things in a form understandable by every body and translated in the world languages all over the Globe and please click the two links below to know more about Veda Vyasa on

http://www.dharmakshetra.com/literature/Vyasa.htm

Other Gurus mostly thought of today is Guru Dattatreya who is the incarnation of Brahma-Vishnu-Maheswara, Sai Baba, Jesus Christ or Allah or Gautama Siddartha who became Buddha latter, or any personal Guru of your own and not the least of course our birth given Mother of all of us is the First Guru who showed us our father, Guru & then God. That is the reason we never able to pay our debt to our Mother and hence

MATRU DEVO BHAVA
PITRU DEVO BHAVA
ACHARYA (GURU) DEVO BHAVA
ATIDHI DEVO BHAVA
and then God comes which even God prefers this way!

Those who would like to know more about this most auspicious event, please click the link below

http://www.festivalsindia.com/celebrating-guru-poornima-or-guru-pujan-in-india/

Another useful link to know about Guru by clicking the link below to know about Sri Gurudev Dattatreya

http://www.hindujagruti.org/hinduism/knowledge/article/what-is-the-significance-of-chanting-shri-gurudev-datta.html

Yet another useful link to know about Pontiffs join together on this day to start their CHATURMASA VRATAM, by clicking the link below

http://www.itslife.in/2008/09/guru-poornima

It is highly auspicious to read/listen GURU CHARITRA. Please click the link below to read Guru charitra in English

http://www.saibaba.us/texts/gurucharitra/index.htm

Those who would prefer to listen in the sweet language of TELUGU by Telugu sisters & Brothers, please click the link below. Even if you cannot listen all the episodes, I REQUEST YOU TO LISTEN EPISODES 16 & 17 ON GURU POORNIMA DAY, JULY 14TH & 15TH.

http://telugu.srichaganti.net/GuruCharitra.aspx

Or by clicking the link below

http://telugu.srichaganti.net/Guruvaibhavam.aspx

To know the significance of chanting Sri Gurudev Datta on Guru poornima, please click the link below

http://www.hindujagruti.org/hinduism/knowledge/article/what-is-the-significance-of-chanting-shri-gurudev-datta.html

In this context, another most important aspect is to read/listen about what Sri Adi Sankara of Kalady, Kerala by clicking the link below to read in English

http://www.kamakoti.org/newlayout/template/hindudharma.html/21/1/hindu/From+Work+To+Worklessness

To listen in Telugu, Please click the link below


http://telugu.srichaganti.net/PrasnottararatnaMalika.aspx

I am sure you appreciate the importance of Guru in Sanatana Dharma, hence so much information!

Some of you might like to watch videos on Guru poornima by clicking the link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrdOvwwdnFM

LET US HOPE AND PRAY THAT WE ALL HAVE A BLISSFUL GURU POORNIMA WITH OUR FAMILY & FRIENDS.

With Love, Light & Peace to the whole Creation,

SivaRamaKrishna