Guru Sree Narayana is worshipped in places just like a God, but I could not follow that. I wish you help me frame my thoughts
2007-02-27 02:39:01 · 12 answers · asked by Padma S 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
he is a human being but not a god.he has a talent to attract a people.
2007-02-27 02:45:29 · answer #1 · answered by moin m 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Shri Narayan was the most elevated human being. Some may call such an elevated human being as God and they really mean Deity (Devta). Shri Narayan was a Devta and there were many others too. Howeever God and Deity are two different things. Deityes they are (were) the most elevated human beings whereas GOD is not a human being - He is God the Supreme SOUL. God is a soul (the most elevated) and He does not ever become a human being. The Deityes are Human Beings which means they are souls who have taken birth in a body. God never does that. A deity will always have a mother and a father. God will never have. He himself is MaatPita - but not in a phisycal way. He is the spiritual mother and father who gives life to the soul and nourishes it with light. I am respectully wondering: Did i make myself clear?
2007-02-27 14:34:48 · answer #2 · answered by Forever Blessed & BlissFull 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are talking about the Malayalee saint, Sree Narayana Guru, I don't pray to him necessarily but I do think he is divine. He is a very wise sage, who I believe is self-realized. My family never raised me to worship him, so I cannot really view him as God.
2007-02-27 15:15:08 · answer #3 · answered by lotusmoon01 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I have to admit that I don't worship Sree Naryana as a god. And I can give you a written guarantee that I'm not about to start.
2007-02-27 02:47:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I worship him as a social reformer who after realising the need of his era,turned to be a saint and social reformer.Those who are now converting him as a God has Ulteror Motives.This tendency was in every age and every religion as well as country.Mylord spare them.They do not know what they are doing.They have lost the spirit of his teachings in their quest to find out a God in him.
G Asok
2007-02-27 03:50:35 · answer #5 · answered by Asok G 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Narayana? are you referring to Shree Laxmi Narayana who is an incarnation of Lord Vishnu?
2007-02-27 02:47:10 · answer #6 · answered by Jitu 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He is definetly not a god, that would be contrary to his teaching, he was definetly a sage, and a geat man. but not god.
But it is the nature of human beings to deitify great persons, see what happended to Bhudda , and Mahveera.
2007-02-27 16:25:57 · answer #7 · answered by anoop_pattat 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Guru is not God or Narayana. Since Guru is the representative of Narayana or Krishna, he is should be worshiped as God.
Lord Sri Krishna told Uddhava in Srimad Bhagavatam(11.17.27), " One should know the äcärya as Myself and never disrespect him in any way. One should not envy him, thinking him an ordinary man, for he is the representative of all the demigods".
But the guru should come in the bona fide guru parampara as Krishna says in Bhagavad-gita(4.2), evam parampara-praptam, that is "This supreme science was thus received through the chain of disciplic succession".
One should come in the line of Sampradaya(disciple succession)
One must take shelter of one of these four sampradayas in order to understand the most confidential religious system. In the Padma Purana it is said, sampradaya-vihina ye mantras te nishphala matah: if one does not follow the four recognized disciplic successions, his mantra or initiation is useless. In the present day there are many apasampradayas, or sampradayas which are not bona fide, which have no link to authorities like Lord Brahma, Lord Siva, the Kumaras or Lakshmi. People are misguided by such samprdayas. The sastras say that being initiated in such a sampradaya is a useless waste of time, for it will never enable one to understand the real religious principles.
So guru is not self made or manufactured. Guru should have his guru who in turn has his guru and finally going back to Krishna.
According to Padma Purana, mentioned above these are four parampara(disciplic succession) and their acharya.
1. Sri or Lakshmi sampradaya - Ramanujacharya
2. Brahma sampradaya - Madhvaccharya
3. Rudra sampradaya - Vishnuswami
4. Kumara sampradaya - Nimbarkacharya.
Some of the teachings regarding guru by,
A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,
founder-acharya of ISKCON
(International Society for Krishna Consciousness)
The bona fide guru will simply present what the supreme guru, God, says in bona fide scripture. A guru cannot change the message of the disciplic succession.
When we offer respects to the guru, we are offering respects to God. Because we are trying to be God conscious, it is required that we learn how to offer respects to God through God's representative. In all the sastras the guru is described to be as good as God, but the guru never says, "I am God." The disciple's duty is to offer respect to the guru just as he offers respect to God, but the guru never thinks, "My disciples are offering me the same respect they offer to God; therefore I have become God." As soon as he thinks like this, he becomes a dog instead of God.
God is always God, guru is always guru.
The above are only some of the principles regarding guru. In essence, guru should come in one of the four guru parampara (disciplic succession), follow the teachings of his previous gurus and instruct his disciples to worship God.
2007-02-27 03:14:13 · answer #8 · answered by Gaura 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sree Narayana (Murthy) ???????? a god??????? Naaah. He is just a shrewd and damn lucky businessman (in the IT sector).
Thats all
2007-02-27 02:57:26 · answer #9 · answered by nunna k 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
to me he is an entity that keeps people like you in question forever in doubt and dying undecided
2007-02-27 03:50:15 · answer #10 · answered by murdock 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋