Guru Dakshina: A Love Offering

"Guru Dakshina" is a term which means a payment of some kind, a donation given to the one who imparts spiritual knowledge, that is, a guru--literally, "the dispeller (Ru) of the darkness of ignorance (Gu)." Only light, of course, can obliterate the dark and where the light is, there is no dark. The two do not and cannot co-exist.

The illumined masters and prophets of the world's religions since time immemorial speak of that Divine Knowledge coming in the form of Light. It is That Light which the Guru reveals when appropriate and according to the capacity of the individual to receive it. When That Light reflects in a stilled mind and reveals OneGod, it is what you call the "enlightenment."

"Guru Dakshina - a love offering" shines a spotlight on only a fraction of the spiritual wisdom shared with thirsty Truth-seekers the world over by the author's peerless guru, Sri Sadguru Sant Keshavadas. Interspersed with Guruji's illumination of eternal knowledge are vignettes of the sometimes playful, sometimes painful, sometimes miraculous sculpting the author undergoes in order to advance on the path of bhakti yoga, the path of reuniting with God through devotion.