Gurucharanam Saranam

Spiritual Cleansing - Gurupooja at Santhigiri 

(Guruvani - Sacred words of Navajyoti Sri Karunakara
Guru)
Translated from the original Malayalam

We fought one another remaining in a system which laid down that we

should not touch, step into, accept or perceive the sanctified aspect within
all performances. In that fight, varnashrama dharma was lost and the caste
system arose. The castes were also not to touch one another. All the
karmas were hit by this system. We (at Santhigiri) are taking back that
bruised karma, which many had tried in vain earlier. Santhigiri’s karma is
directed at reverting to the caste-less state and not at devoleping a
sanyasa cult. Nor is it aimed at tracing the root of the Indian civilization with
a view to retrieve it. It is not necessary to lift it up. Because this is Kali: The
dharma of Kali is not to step on the shoulder of the errors that have arisen
in the whole world and then revive it. Our karma as well as the dharma of
Kali is to wipe out the aspect of error.

In this karma, both the genders of householders should earn a great level.
The householder-life (grihasthashram) is a great concept wherein a
householder elevates himself (in such a manner) that through his offspring
and lineage, he acquires the intelligence to rule the world; the karma (way
of action) to impart goodness to the world or even become capable of
assuming the role of the protectors of the world or its motherhood. Without
knowing this, you live and perish as opportunists.
You don’t know what God-worship is. You do not know even to act
distinguishing what is the Householder, Sanyasi, Yogi and Karmi. None of
these karmas is now with us. Our success in life lies in retrieving them. This
is the first effort in the world (in this direction). No where else has this effort
taken place. Let it come if it is going to come elsewhere. We have reached
the stage of the humbleness of the performance of God’s creative
contemplation.
 When I first reached this place for the actualization of this performance, I
was told not to stay where I could be seen by two persons together. Many
sort of things happened here at that period. The people of this place also
know some of it, but their knowing was of no avail. When I first made a hut
here, I handed over its care to some local residents here. And you came in
(here) witnessing their fall. What is that fall like? These people had come
and witnessed the happenings here. Despite many events which took place
in front of them, being caught by cognitive lacking, they were distanced
(from here) forever in a manner that it is impossible for them to come back
or take it back. Some of them repent today saying that it was (their) flawed
action. However, there is no use of their saying so.

The karma now being performed here today is aimed at moulding such
offspring who can give birth to the array of deva (god), devi (goddess), rishi
(seer), sanyasi (renunciate) and jnanis (the wise) who were worshipped by
our forefathers with love and reverence. Nobody who came until now has
done this performance, for God has not ordained them for it. But God has
granted us that karma. You should realize that, but you fail to understand it
in whatever way it is said. In this institution, where more than 15,000
families performed Gurupooja, there are no people even countable by
fingers who live knowing it in that greatness. How will you then discern this
karma? Many children of this place who were once associated with this
have forgotten this. I have not told them anything. Whenever they come to
me, sometimes I try to prick them saying it like a story, but they have no
pain. Why so? Because all of us are the progeny of people who have read
the ancient tales and epics like a story and, turning that story into play,
made it into recklessness. 

When it is mentioned that our subject is to correct this ignorance - what

becomes necessary is your children. But they are not able to be brought
forward because the dharma by which we worshipped, and were made to
worship with the offerings of love and wealth, is entangled with our soul.
(Such being the truth), when a girl is born, she is led away from her virtues
in such a manner that her goodness is unable to be known. When a male-
child is born, he is transformed into a drunkard in such a manner that he is
unable to know what duty he has towards the world. There is a great effort
in changing these vices. This effort in one way is good. For, at least, for
that sake, you would get in contact (with Guru) and act. 

There’s a saying among us that the husband is God! Is the meaning of this
saying then a fool, who fulfilled (his life) with theft and one who has never
shown justice to anything? Does it mean an unchaste person who has not
learned to live in righteousness, living without humility and virtue, pulling
down the undergarment of women? It is all this we are creating and letting
out. How can they manage this country? What all this depravity
(depredators) cannot perform?

The ‘Gurupooja’ here is the foremost karma which I am doing for this for
you. (I am) not talking about its greatness. I don’t understand such
greatness. I am not leaned, great by virtue of wealth, capability or
education. God has not led me into any such things. But there is one thing.
God has granted you a suitable setting where irrespective of your status,
you can assemble. And through this, together through you and your
offspring, children are taking birth from whom will be born several great
souls who are capable to do whatever (good) for the country and indeed
the whole world. We don’t know how it is made to happen.

But we do it in the Sankalpa (conception) called ‘Sankalpamathrena

Parameswarah’, whereby, after envisioning everything that has come until
now in the law of Devi-Devas - giving whatever they require (they are not
abandoned) - a way is found by the path shown by God to give them an
opportunity to take birth or make them entitled for liberation. We are
handling this exactly the way the revelation is received from God to perform
this. It’s not performed, as someone might think, attracting some evil spirits
by sitting and chanting. Nor is it performed bringing a ‘root’ from the places
where I spent life. I have not taken any ‘root’ of others. I have not found a
suitable scenario also wherein I could take this ‘root’. There are no suitable
‘roots’ either. In fact, it is being nurtured by scraping off all these ‘bottoms’,
then burning them with fire, scooping good mud and then planting the
 sapling there. What is required for it is, suitable children. You do not know
how I perform it. That is my sadness.

What I am making you do is a performance, which, by correcting the flaws

in the traditions that have come from the beginning until now in the deva
and rishi lineages (trimurty and seer traditions), without exterminating the
essence of these lineages, will transform them into a great status. Then
how great should be your eminence? It is a performance in humility to bring
within you the privilege of not only ancestral souls, gods, goddesses and
rishis but even some genderless ghosts also to be born of you (for release).
Retaining the truth in that path, transform yourself as the sanctified work
emerging from that truth. This is the goal. I have no other rationale or
doctrine. I have done this for 15,000 families in this manner, but they are
unable to take it. Not merely that but building up contrary attributes in their
actions, make it the cause for its destruction. There are about fifteen
households who have perished like this in this locality despite performing it
with genuine sacrifice, prayers and contemplations; rest of the families
(perished) leaving this place.

The ancestors did have (their share of) good and bad (in them). The
difficulty was great when these (the deeds of ancestors) were tried to be
eliminated. You will understand it when you reflect on the great souls of the
past, in order to realize that. But the biographies made up on them are
unsuitable for such evaluation. 
For instance take ‘Geeta Govindam’. What is the purpose of making
children enact Krishnaleela? You are inflating the sensuality already
present in them, by adorning and bringing up children in this manner and
spoiling them - adding to the fulfilment of such action and taking it up. This
is what the Saktheya, Saiva and Vaishnava have done here. You cannot
change it at all. This is the fact behind the coming of so many great souls.
We don’t have the aptitude to remove it through (our) lifetime. But we have
the luck.

You will not be able to find a similar thing (Gurupooja) elsewhere in the
world. Nor has it ever happened in the world. In your epics mention is made
 about the ‘Bhageerata Prayatna’ (the effort of Bhageerata). Bhageerata
was a king and he could do many things, but there too, not this. Here, you
are endowed with awareness in a manner of witnessing it yourself and
accepting with discrimination. God has ordained it for you. It is in the said
awareness the deva, devi, rishi, monk, jnani (seer), the devout, the pitru
[ancestral souls] are all guided and placed in auspicious constellations.
Your children, after living truthfully, are entering into that constellation.
Even if you are unable to become so, it should be made possible through
your children. This is the great work that you do for the world. After
performing this (Gurupooja) for you, I am guiding you how you should live
till the birth of a progeny. (However), you do not understand that. Instead,
making your children listen and obey, describing it as some other big thing,
you are not allowing them to come in front, in (the matter of) dharma.
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