GURU PURNIMA

Author: Jack Barratt

Guru Purnima is the day that we pay our respects to the guru principle and to all of the great luminaries that reflect this principle into the world.

What is a guru? A guru is a being who makes the light of the supreme consciousness alive and active in the world through a tangible, embodied presence. The guru principle teaches everybody in every second through the unavoidable events of life. However, the embodied guru condenses this principle into a singular powerful presence that operates multidimensionally to help liberate various types of beings on various levels.

These elevated gurus also form a successive chain in time. When one guru, who is playing a certain

dharmic role in the world, withdraws his physical presence, another guru instantly takes his place. The cycling of gurus through various dharmic roles and responsibilities on Earth resembles the rising and setting of a sun. As the sun of one guru sets, his successor guru’s sun gradually rises. This principle, this flowing interchange of gurus through time, is known as param para, which literally means ‘uninterrupted series’ or ‘continuation.’

The great master Mohanji is connected with a number of distinct lineages—in fact, the presence of

Mohanji is a confluence of many different chains of spiritual masters. The most immediate and direct param para of Mohanji is a stream of Datta avatars, where Mohanji is taken as guru, Shirdi Sai Baba is taken as param guru and Lord Dattatreya is taken as the paratpara guru. This param para represents sheer avataric and dharmic purpose in the world. This purpose is to unify human beings around the core principles of non-violence, love, kindness and unity across all species, cultures and creeds.

Until the end of this present era on Earth, Mohanji, Shirdi Sai Baba, and Lord Dattatreya, will remain as symbols and unique pioneers of these values. This param para of Datta avatars will also not end with Mohanji. It will continue with fresh, powerful and relevant avataric incarnations until the end of this era. These incarnations will only grow increasingly powerful as they will have the power and force of the rest of the param para standing behind them, guiding them and speaking through them.

Mohanji is also connected with a wider param para of multidimensional masters, which includes such luminaries as Avadhuta Nadananda, Bhagavan Nityananda, Mahatapa Babaji and Agastya Muni. These masters belong to a sphere of intergalactic beings that consciously choose to manifest their presence on this planet in order to maintain the Earth as a possible operating platform for higher frequencies. The majority of the work of these masters is invisible and unfathomable to ordinary beings. However, tangibly they are like walking temples, or vortexes, who act like living portals to higher dimensional frequencies and beings. Through the presence of such beings, any master of a similar or even higher frequency can manifest, operate and accomplish whatever they need to do.

So, in reality, masters of Mohanji’s calibre are never one, they are manifold—they are an entire realm that conglomerates around the physical and subtle form of a single embodied master. For such masters, a physical body is a tool. Such beings are not bound to physical embodiment and neither are they even bound to any specific physical space, planet, solar system, galaxy or universe. In fact, such beings are not even bound to the manifest existence. They exist in the frequency of Satya Yuga, where the created existence and its uncreated, infinite and empty core are experience and enjoyed simultaneously.

Thus, because the depth of the guru principle and the param para of avadhutas and siddhas is

unlimited, our festivities on the day of Guru Purnima should also be unlimited. This is a time to address the higher realms through the manifest presence of our guide to thank them for their selfless, unconditionally loving and enlightening presence. This is a time to see how existence itself and our own personal guide are constantly instructing us through the many challenging ups and downs of life. This is a time to be thankful for those challenges, and for the inner fire that they produce, as the means to help us burn through our age-old patterns of limited perception. Our worship on the day of Guru Purnima should begin at the feet of our own guru and then move through their param para and then outwards to the furthest limits of this limitless existence.

May the blessings of the higher realms be with all who read and do not read this article. I bow down to Mohanji. I bow down to all of the siddhas and avadhutas who have been helping me walk weightlessly in this world. May the axis of dharmic existence remain impenetrable and indestructible.