上師的滿月Guru Purnima 源起

很久以前，有四位老人正在找尋答案。第一個是悲慘的，他想知道如何擺脫他的悲慘苦難。第二個想要更多的成長和成功，並想知道如何實現這目標。第三個想知道生命的意義。第四個人有了所有的知識，但他仍然缺乏一些東西，他不知道缺得的是什麼。

所以這四個人都在尋找答案，他們都在一個有榕樹的地方落點。在這棵榕樹下，一個年輕人臉上露出燦爛的笑容坐在那兒，突然所有的人都認為這個年輕人可以給我們答案。同樣的想法:「這個人將會解決我的問題」從他們內在傳了出來；所以他們四個人都坐在那裡，他們得到了他們的答案。那個坐在榕樹下微笑的年輕人沒有說一句話，但他們都得到了他們想要的了。

這是上師的滿月Guru Purnima的第一個故事。那是一個滿月的日子，這就是上師滿月Guru Parampara（上師次序的血統）的開始。這四位老人都成了大師。

他們都得到了他們想要的東西：

苦難消失了。
豐聖和快樂來臨了。
尋求停止了。
知識淵博的人得到一位大師來表達自己。
第四個人曾擁有一切，他擁有所有的知識，但他沒有一位上師來連接。所以這內在與上師的0連結發生了。這就是為什麼香卡拉赭梨(印度聖人)Adi Shankaracharya說，

「Mouna Vyakhya prakatitha，para，Brahma thathwam yuvanam」。

（意思是：我讚美並向Dakshinamurthy（第一位上師）致敬，
他以靜默解釋了至尊梵天的真實本質）。

故事的象徵意義：
在故事中，老師很年輕，因為靈性總是年輕，而學生年紀很大。有很多與之相關的明喻。尋求讓你老了。尋找世界，尋求解放，或尋求任何東西，都會讓你變老。所以門徒們都老了，師父還年輕。

榕樹的象徵意義是什麼？榕樹自成長。它不需要任何人的照顧或保護。如果榕樹的種子進入石頭的裂縫，那裡沒有多少水，它也會在那裡生長。它需要的只是一點點泥和很少的水。有時甚至不需要它。榕樹一直給氧氣。這是一棵24小時供給氧氣的樹。所以只有給出的榕樹，象徵著上師原則Guru Principle.。

上師意味著消除黑暗，痛苦，孤獨，缺乏和帶來豐富的人，因為「缺乏」只在心智(腦海)中。因此，上師消除了匱乏並帶來了自由。

Long time ago, there were four elderly men who were seeking answers. The first one was miserable and he wanted to know how to get out of his misery. The second one wanted more progress and success, and wanted to know how to get that. The third one wanted to know the meaning of life. And the fourth one had all the knowledge but still he lacked something, and he did not know what that was.

So these four people were wandering for answers and they all landed up in one place where there was a Banyan tree. Under the Banyan tree, a young man was seated with a big smile on his face, and suddenly all of them thought that this person could give us the answer. The same thought came to all of them from within that this person is going to solve my problems, and so all four of them sat there and they got their answers. The young man who was sitting under the Banyan tree with a smile did not say a word, yet all of them got what they wanted.

This is the first story of Guru Purnima. That was a full moon day, and that is how the Guru Parampara (lineage of the Guru order) started. All these four elderly people became Gurus.

They all got what they wanted:

Misery was gone
Abundance and happiness arrived
The seeking stopped
The knowledgeable one got a Guru to express himself
That fourth man had everything, he had all the knowledge but he did not have a Guru to connect to. So the inner connection to the Guru happened. That’s why Adi Shankaracharya said,
“Mouna Vyakhya prakatitha, para, Brahma thathwam yuvanam”.
 (Meaning: I praise and salute Dakshinamurthy (The first Guru), who explains the true nature of the supreme Brahman through his state of silence).

Symbolism of the story
In the story, the teacher is young because the spirit is always young, whereas the students are old. There are so many similes associated with this. Seeking makes you old. Seeking for the world, or for liberation, or for anything, makes you old. So the disciples were old, and the Master was young.

What is the symbolism of the Banyan tree? A Banyan tree grows on its own. It does not need anybody’s care or protection. If the seed of a Banyan tree gets inside the crack of a stone, where there is not much water, it will grow there also. All it needs is a little mud and very little water. Sometimes it does not need even that. And a Banyan tree gives oxygen all the time. This is one tree that gives oxygen 24 hours. So the Banyan tree which only gives, symbolizes the Guru Principle.

Guru means the one who removes darkness, misery, loneliness, lack, and brings abundance, because lack is only in the mind. So the Guru removes the lack and brings freedom.