Guru Purnima 2026
“Guru is Brahm. ‘Gurur Brahma, Gurur Vishnur.’ These are not the words of adoration; this is the description of the reality of Guru. Guru is on the level of Totality personified. When Guru speaks, it is the Totality that speaks. Words of the Guru are the words of the Veda. Veda is only heard from the Guru. So Guru means the Totality. If one is in the sense of Guru all the time, one is in the sense of total Natural Law and its total organizing power; there is nothing greater than that.
That is why Guru is completely natural in our awareness. It is not a matter of anything that is from outside or anything. It is completely natural. It is simple. It is Totality. It is a great thing. One knows it in being that level of relationship. ‘Na Guror Adhikam’–there is nothing greater than Guru, nothing greater than Guru.
Guru Purnima is the Full Moon of the Guru–one day of the year. In the Vedic Calendar, each day is attributed to some Devata, to some special creative intelligence–Sun, Moon, Shiva, Vishnu, and all. There are an enormous number of Devatas, embodiments of the Kriya Shakti. ‘Kriya Shakti’ is the power of action. There are two things, basically: the silence and action, silence and activity, infinite silence and infinite activity, and both in perfect accord with each other. Perfect silence, perfect dynamism: this is Brahm–this is Totality.
The Guru is Totality. He has, as it is said in the Vedic Literature and with reference to what Dr John Hagelin just said, ‘Tripad Asyamritam Divi’. That means three-fourths is Amrit. ‘Amrit’ means eternal. Three-fourths is eternal; one-fourth is juggling around. Three-fourths is eternal. This is what makes us stand on our own feet eternally. We are embedded in the three-fourths of the unmanifest, as Dr Hagelin said. This unmanifest, this Avyakta, is three-fourths, and the manifest is one-fourth. Three-fourths is unmanifest; one-fourth is manifest. The changes take place in the unmanifest. What continues in the field of flow is three-fourths. So the dominant factor is three-fourths of Totality. Reality belongs to the non-changing eternity, absolute eternity, absolute.”
—Maharishi Press Conference; 20th July 2005
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