There are only three true well-wishers.
(1) Our restrained, virtuous and peaceful mind is our well-wisher. The mind which enslaves us and makes us selfwilled is our enemy. The mind which is restrained and calm is our well-wisher. An unrestrained and restless mind ruins us.
(2) The presiding deity is our wellwisher. The deity whom we believed our ishta devataa before attaining a Selfrealized Guru, is our well-wisher. That presiding deity inspires us like “Go to Lilaashaahji or any other Self-realized Guru; do this and that….”
(3) A Self-realized Guru is our well-wisher. When one meets a SatGuru the work of the Ishta devataa is finished. Although the Ishta devataa is powerful, he is only 1 unit of power; when He sends us to a SatGuru, then their combined energy becomes 11 units.
I believed in a presiding deity and worshiped Him and he sent me to a SatGuru who got the idol of my deity stolen; but that deity was not displeased: ‘What kind of Guru He is! I sent such an advanced seeker to him and he got my worship stopped.’ No! God and SatGuru are not thirsty of worship, not hungry of worship yet they accept our worship only for our welfare, else they don’t care for their worship. God and SatGuru are not our foes, but occasionally you will find that when you go to salute them after doing a good deed and look at their photo or idol it would seem they are blessing you, and when you look at their image after doing a bad act, their eyes seem to be wrathful. We are not so much a well-wisher of ourselves as our SatGuru is. He is our true wellwisher who never forsakes us and never hates us, despite knowing our weakness, vices, sins, faults, wickedness and clinging to ideas of many past lives. His heart is full of feelings for our good. We cannot imagine, even in ten lives, the wealth that a Perfected well-wisher Guru wants to give us. He is the possessor of that supreme wealth and happily wants to give it to us. A SatGuru gives us essential things unasked. And a SatGuru is brave in cleansing you of unnecessary demands that you long for, such as desire for fame, collecting money from people by fraudulent means, by insulting you. He takes away the unnecessary things that we want, and gives us the necessary things that we may not want, by happily coaxing us.
A true well-wisher Guru alone knows how he removes your grief, laments, selfwilled nature and old habits of duplicity and wiles. At that time he may seem like an enemy, but you should never leave his shelter. The supreme well-wisher SatGuru looks at unfolding your spiritual greatness without caring about your ego. The word ‘Supreme well-wisher’ is also so small for him.
A child does not know of or do his own good as much as his parents know how to and can do for him. Parents have limits, but God and SatGuru have no limit. They August 2021 5 Rishi Prasad are limitless and infinite.
Now it is between you and your SatGuru, but I am just calling to my Gurudev that ‘you are Brahmaa, you are Vishnu, you are the Sun and Moon, you are also Constellations; you are beyond the stars. You are complete and whole. You are verily the Aatman, the substratum of Brahmaa, Vishnu and Mahesha.’
When I called my SatGuru “GururBrahmaa”, my eyes were filled with tears and became sanctified. Nobody in the world is a well-wisher as great as the Gurudev.
‘Oh! Bhagavaan Lilaashaah, even Bhagavaan bows His head before you, you are Brahman yourself.’ Somebody said: “My Guru is Bhagavaan.”
I said: “You are abusing your Guru.” Becoming whose disciple, even Bhagavaan feels himself blessed and fortunate, He is called ‘Guru’.
गुरुर्ब्रह्मा गुरुर्विष्णुः गुरुर्देवो महेश्वरः ।
गुरुर्साक्षात्परब्रह्म तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः ।।
“Guru is Brahmaa. Guru is Vishnu. Guru is God Maheshvara. Guru alone is verily the Supreme Brahman Therefore prostrations to him (the Guru).”
गुरुकृपा हि केवलं शिष्यस्य परं मङ्गलम् ।
“Guru’s grace alone brings about the supreme welfare of the disciple.”
As long as one doesn’t meet a Selfrealised Guru, the Ishta devataa helps him a bit, but when one attains the grace of a Guru, the grace of the Ishta devataa merges with the grace of the Guru after just as the light of a lamp merges with the sunlight, when one comes in the sun.
My Gurudev got my Ishta deva stolen and kept in the storeroom, but my Ishta devataa did not care a fig for it. And after that event, I never worshipped my Ishta devataa and no harm ever befell me. Now I behold Ishta everywhere, Gurudev made me an Ishta of crores of people.
Gurudev! I was so ignorant in this matter. You gave me what I did not (as I was unaware of it, Self-realisation) want and removed all that I wanted (vision of Lord Shiva and His pleasure). What good you could wish for me! What a well-wisher you are!
