Advocates worship to the Guru in the same manner as the deity – God, to attain all there is to attain on the path of God-realization: Yasya deve para bhaktir yatha deve tatha gurau | Tasyaite kathitaa hi arthaaha prakashante mahatmanaha ||
(2) Bhagavad Gita (4/34)
The disciple should humbly pose questions to the Guru and please him by serving him. He will then impart the knowledge of God, so ordain the wise sages.
(3) Shrimad Bhagvatam
Bhagwan Rushabhdeva advocates his sons: Obeying the Anuvrutti – unvoiced wishes – of God and Guru is devotion.
(4 ) Vachanamrutam (Vadtal 5)
The aspirant should offer equal and intensely loving service to God and His sadhu. Then, despite being the lowest type of devotee who is destined to become a great-devotee after either two births or four births or ten births or even a hundred births, he can become a great devotee in this birth. Such is the fruit of serving God and His sadhu equally.”
The phrase “great devotee” signifies moksha-salvation.
Therefore on the day of Guru Purnima, disciples introspect, and resolve to offer pujan and reverence to the Guru in mind, action and speech; implicitly obey his unvoiced wishes, commands, serving him as one would God and lauding his glory and redemptive attributes.
Every year, the Guru Purnima Festival, in the presence of Pramukh Swami Maharaj is celebrated with devotion and enthusiasm at Bochasan Mandir. An assembly from 8.30 am to 12.00 noon is held wherein bhajans and discourses by senior sadhus emphasize and sing the glory of the Guru. The festival is finally crowned with Swamishri’s blessings and darshan – where thousands offer their reverence by filing past Swamishri.
