The Vedanta philosophy that I explained you has another consequence to our everyday’s life which I believe to be very important and which I would like to write to you about.
Let’s go back to the example with the cups full of water. If you are one cup full of water from a big ocean, then everybody else is, too. I am, you are and your family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and even those people with whom you are not on good terms are from the same water.
This means we all are same.
It means, nobody is higher or lower than anybody else. The consequence is that there should be no gurus. There should not be anybody sitting higher and another person sitting lower. It is the basic concept of democracy in contrast to monarchies and tyrany? So why would we put anybody above us?
You all know that I am fully against the idea of Guruism, the human worship of one person. This philosophy actually supports me and my opinion. If we are all from the same source, you are not better than I am and I am not better than you! You may have some more experiences and I can learn from you but in the same way there may be something that you can learn from me. In the essence, we all are same. So you can be my Guru and I can be your Guru.The same has to be applied for people whom you don’t like, of course, too.
And it is a good way to help you remove negative feelings towards someone. In the end, there is no guru and no disciple, we are all the same. Even that unfriendly colleague who never greets you or the neighbour who always seems to have a problem with you. They are part of that great soul, too. This thought can help you to see that they are not that bad – and in the end you will end up mixing waters with them!
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Each you is I and each I is you.
I personally feel that we are growing and evolving all the time.
Amen to that…
Rightly said: ‘you can be my Guru and I can be your Guru’We can learn from ANYBODY who is close-by, everyone and the whole world is our guru, if you see it in the sense of teaching you something good for you. Life is my guru and I live it with all the lessons it gives me!
Yes, we put others above us ourselves! You are talking about tyranny, but it is a self-imposed, self-chosen tyranny! You choose your own tyrant if you choose a guru to be yours. Don’t put yourself in that trap!And then also, if you have put yourself under a guru, you can get yourself out of there again! Sometimes more difficult but always possible!
We all are gurus or gods, very true!
A lovely, humane and healthy way of approaching one’s fellow beings.
It’s a reflection and expression of lovingness and enlightenment to have this knowledge, that all souls are from the same ocean of Spirit and are therefore equal in Spirit. For many years, people have viewed me as unreasonable for insisting that anyone with true realization of Spirit would never feel a need to place him or her self above others, would never feel needs for worship, adoration, or power over others, in addition to never feeling inclinations to exploit anyone in any way. But this is common sense. What a better world this would be if all spiritual teachers, their students, and spiritual seekers had this common sense and knowledge, that we are all equal in Spirit.