Guru Purnima Gratitude Meditation: Honor Your Spiritual Teachers

And it is so powerful because it's the time when we stop and we thank the guru, the guru principle.

Now, whether you have an actual guru or not, whether you're working right now with a spiritual teacher who is in a body or not, you can still honor this beautiful tradition and receive the blessings through gratitude.

And that's what I'm gonna be doing today.

I'm gonna be taking you through a really lovely gratitude meditation to help you connect in with this beautiful inner teacher that we have.

Now, just so that you understand the word guru, the gu- the guru with a small G is basically a teacher.

Anybody can be a guru.

So if you learned math when you were in the second grade, then that person, that math teacher, was a guru to you on that level.

If you took piano lessons at any point in your life, then that person was a guru to you as well.

But the Guru with a capital G, like the Guru, is the one who takes you from ignorance to light.

It's the one who helps you wake up to your true divine essence.

That's the Guru energy that we're talking about.

And for me, when I was living in the spiritual community, my focus was on Paramahansa Yogananda and his beautiful teachings, but, but when I was there, he wasn't in the body.

So it was his teachings that became the guru, and he even said that the, the techniques that he had le- that he'd taught all of us and that he had left behind, that the technique would then become the guru.

But since that time, and I've worked with other teachers as well, what I've learned is, is that the guru really is within you.

It's a principle within you.

You're never without that guru.

That guru is always guiding you, and it is that energy that is within you.

So as much as it's lovely to have gurus that are in a body outside of us, everybody has that guru within.

So I want you to take a moment, and I want you to think about all the spiritual teachers that you've had, all the spiritual mentors that you've had.

Maybe you learned how to pray the rosary from your grandmother, or maybe somebody taught you how to, um, breathe and meditate after a yoga class.

Or maybe you learned how to connect with nature and to commune with nature as, you know, part of your heritage.

Maybe that's just part of it for you.

You may know many, many spiritual teachers on your path, and we wanna include all of them because they are all manifestations of the one true guru who lives within you.

So let's take a few, let's take a few deep breaths together, get ourselves grounded and centered.

And as we're doing this, we're gonna get ourselves ready to do this beautiful meditation.