Who was guru gorakhnathji and what lesson he gave to lord Krishna?
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Of all the Masters through the ages, there is one acknowledged Master who has been referred to in the ancient scriptures, in legends and mystic tales, in passing mention by many renowned masters. Mentioned in the Puranas and other scriptures, he is known as Guru Gorakhnath. The Nath Sampradaya, among many others, revere him as Shiva Goraksha.\n\nIt is said that seeing Guru Gorakhnath in samadhi, Mata Parvati asked Lord Shiva about the yogi. Bhagwan Shankar or Lord Shiva stated that it was his own yogic manifestation. The Nine Naths and 84 Siddhas are aspects of Shiva himself, and legend suggests that they predate creation. Shiva Gorakshanath is the founder of the Siddha tradition. \n\nGorakhnath (also called Goraksanatha) was an 11th Century Hindu yogi who founded the Kanphata yogis.\n\nThe legend states that Guru Gorakhnath, the eternal sage and traditionally associated with Hatha Yoga (one of the branches of Yogic practices), has been around for thousands of years watching the welfare of humanity. Different legends ascribe different stories to his birth and the period of his worldly existence, and they vary greatly. The Nath Rahashya, which literally translates into the mystery of the masters, recounts birth, work, and death of nine such Naths (masters), and Guru Gorakhnath was the ninth Nath, preceded by his Guru, the eight Nath, namely, Matshyendranath.\n\nTraditionally, Guru Gorakhanath is believed to have been born sometime in the 8th century, whereas some believe it to be anytime from 8th century to several centuries later. He has traveled widely across the Indian subcontinenet, and accounts about him are found in some forms or others several places including Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Punjab, Sind, Uttar Pradesh, Nepal, Assam, Bengal, Maratha, and even Sri Lanka.\n\nGurkhas of Nepal also take their name from this saint. Gorakhpur, the district headquarters of Gorakhpur District, is believed to derive its name from Guru Gorakhnath.\n\nSpiritual knowledge is a matter of Guru-parampara. It is handed down from Guru to disciple. Gaudapadacharya imparted Self-knowledge to his disciple Govindacharya; Govindacharya to his disciple Sankaracharya; Sankaracharya to his disciple Suresvaracharya. Matsyendranath imparted knowledge to his disciple Gorakhnath; Gorakhnath to Nivrittinath; Nivrittinath to Jnanadeva. Totapuri imparted knowledge to Sri Ramakrishna, and Ramakrishna to Swami Vivekananda. It was Ashtavakra who moulded the life of Raja Janaka. It was Gorakhnath who shaped the spiritual destiny of Raja Bhartrihari. It was Lord Krishna who made Arjuna and Uddhava get themselves established in the spiritual path when their minds were in an unsettled state.\n\nMy note:-The lesson imparted was Guru Parampara, but not to Lord Krishna see above.
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Prince Siddharta Gautama was born some 2,500 years ago as a prince in what is now called Lumbini in Nepal. At his birth, many special signs appeared. His father asked a sage living in his kingdom for advice on his son. The sage predicted that Gautama would become either a great King or a great spiritual teacher.\n\nThe King wanted his son to be his successor and tried to keep his son far away from all matters of life that could incline him to a spiritual life. Gautama usually spent his life in his father's palace, surrounded by all possible luxuries of the time. He proved to be a special child, being quite intelligent as well as an excellent sportsman. He married to a beautiful woman he loved, and they had a son.\n\nWhen he was 29 years old, he discovered there was much suffering in the world around him. Traditionally it is explained that he suddenly recognised the problems of sickness, old age and death when visiting the city. Being shocked by the suffering of all living beings, he decided to search for way to end it. He left his wife and child, the palace and even his royal clothes, and started out on a spiritual quest.\n\nGautama studied under various teachers and followed their practices until he mastered them all. His first teacher was Alara Kalama who taught a form of meditation leading to an exalted form of absorption called "state of no-thingness", a state without moral or cognitive dimension. Gautama saw this was not going to solve suffering, and continued his search.\nThe next teacher was Udraka Ramaputra who taught him meditative absorption leading to “the state of neither perception nor non-perception”. Again, Gautama realised this was not the state he was looking for. (Both Alara and Udraka are by some scholars considered Jain followers.)\nNext, he tried extreme ascetic practices at Uruvilva, with five other ascetics who turned into his followers. In the end, Gautama nearly died of starvation.\nAfter about six years of searching, he realised that just wearing down his body did not generate new insights, but rather leads to weakness and self-destruction. When he decided to give up extreme asceticism, his students left him.\nHe then sat down in a place now called Bodhgaya (North India) under a Bodhi-tree and decided not to get up anymore until he discovered the truth. Just a short time later, he became a fully enlightened Buddha. This means that he actualised all positive potentials of a sentient being and rid himself of all negative qualities. With this, he realised the true nature of existence and suffering (emptiness), and how suffering can be ended. \nSeven weeks after enlightenment, the Buddha gave his first discourse in Sarnath, near Varanasi . Here he taught the 4 Noble Truths. The Buddha continued to teach during his life, until passing away at the age of  81.\n\nThe Buddha once summarised his entire teachings in one sentence:\n\n    "I teach about suffering and the way to end it".
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my sentiments are same as you heron. \n\ni do not know much about him for i skip any news about him or such gurus in general. many years ago i read and heard that he claims to be reincarnation of a much respected muslim sufi saint sain baba.i do not believe any such claims .original sai(n) baba samadhi is in Nasik Maharashtra.\n\nthough he opens hosptitals etc and gets respect among many people. gurudom is a good buissness in india and satya sai baba follows somewhat missionary style of getting popularity.
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Hi there,\nTo answer your question, lets go step by step. First we will split the word: Mohnish= Mohan + Ish\nIn sanskrit "Ish" means god. And Mohan means "fascinating person". So Mohnish means god or the best of all fascinating  people. And yes, offcourse, Lord Krishna is the one.
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Please visit http://www.sahajayoga.org and you can get your self realization without going to any Guru.We become our own masters.\nYOU CAN BE YOUR OWN GURU.\nAny worthwhile view of the Divine realizes that God resides within each of us. He is there to be awakened as we become a part of the Greater Self.\n\nIt's free.\nYou can even get your self realization online or going to nearest meeting place.http://www.sahajayoga.org/worldwidecontacts/default.asp
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“God has no religion” \n Mahatma Gandhi  \n\n\nI have always liked this Gandhi quote. To me, it just simply means the as human beings we have a tendency to confuse having a relationship with the God of our understanding with having religion. Religion is man-made and fallible. God is infallible. The two are not the same and people can often get so wrapped up in following the many creeds and traditions and rules of their religion that they completely lose sight of God in the process...or they never get the chance to know God personally because they are too caught up in the ritualism of religion.\n\nThis is just an opinion. I certainly don't have the number of quotes as the person who answered this before me. I almost didn't answer at all... but I wanted to say this. Thanks.
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About 500 yrs ago-1886-God cmae to Earth,in Navadvipa,in the role of a devotee of Krishna.His Name:Lord Gauranga,the Golden Avatara.\nHe explained that just by chanting the mantra hare krishna,you an go back to Godhead
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his nickname is sherry .he is a king ,not afraid of anybody.he speaks whatever comes to his mind.but his hindi is of 1st class.wonder from where he learns the idioms and proverbs.
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Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.\n-Rabindranath Tagore
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Gandhiji's ideas were noble....but I dont think they really fit in todays world..also he had many dark sides of his personality.\n\nWe need to follow Krishna in Kaliyuga.
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I would say faith in Lord Krishna would be the first point. \nThen, you can join the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (http://www.iskcon.com/). \nThey have branches all over the world. TO check for on nearest to you, visit their site: \nhttp://www.iskcon.com/worldwide/centres/index.html \n\nHappy chanting.
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Please take the time to\nvote for the best answer\n\nThank You!!\n\nShri Lord Venkateswara- Balaji\n\nFInd image and instruction here
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I practice Krishna Consciousness. \nIt Teaches me how to develop our forgotten love back towards God. Because that is the platform of Eternal happiness.That happiness that never ends. \nI am very happy with the progress i have made and feeling of Happiness and satisfaction when i engage in service of God.\nBut the best way to know it would be "Not by asking " but by trying. As it is said .. the test of pudding is in pudding itself.
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wonderfull, I applaud your thinking......\n\nwe are all one, everything in the universe is god, and god is in everything\n\nwhen we hate another, we are infact showing hate to ourselves, coz everyone is us, and everyone is god......\n\nso by hating someone we are hating god himself\n\non the other hand, when we show love and mercy, and serve a man, we are indeed serving the lord.......\n\nvery noble thinking, I applaud you........\n\nlook at what the greatest of philosophers have said about this........\n\n"The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him -- that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free."----swami vivekananda\n\n"I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner, the virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, "God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous." \n------sri ramakrishna paramahamsa
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http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Hindu_Scriptures.htm\n\nhttp://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary/controller/textsearch?text=mahabharata&y=0&x=0&&width=4&height=2&startid=7051\n\nhttp://sacredimages-ami.com/krishna.html
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your in luck i'm punjabi well only half but learned a lot so the golden temple is in armitsar and guru nank found khalsaHe who keeps alight the unquenchable torch of truth, and never swerves from the thought of One God; he who has full love and confidence in God and does not put his faith, even by mistake, in fasting or the graves of Muslim saints, Hindu crematoriums, or Jogis places of sepulchre; he who recognises the One God and no pilgrimages, alms-giving, non-destruction of life, penances, or austerities; and in whose heart the light of the Perfect One shines, - he is to be recognised as a pure member of the Khalsa" (Guru Gobind Singh, 33 Swaiyyas) \n\nThe word "Khalsa" means "pure", Khalsa's are Sikhs which have undergone the sacred Amrit Ceremony initiated by the 10th Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh. The Khalsa order was initially created on Baisakhi Day March 30 1699, with Guru Gobind Singh baptizing 5 Sikhs and then in turn asking the five Khalsa's to baptize him. Following this the Guru personally baptized thousands of men and women into the Khalsa order. The Khalsa baptism ceremony is undertaken as part of ones own personal spiritual evolution when the initiate is ready to fully live up to the high expectations of Guru Gobind Singh. All Sikhs are expected to be Khalsa or be working towards that objective. \n\n\nThe Khalsa baptism ceremony involves drinking of Amrit (sugar water stirred with a dagger) in the presence of 5 Khalsa Sikhs as well as the Guru Granth Sahib. The initiate is instructed in the following; (a) You shall never remove any hair from any part of thy body, (b) You shall not use tobacco, alcohol or any other intoxicants, (c) You shall not eat the meat of an animal slaughtered the Muslim way, (d) You shall not commit adultery. The initiate is required to wear the physical symbols of a Khalsa at all times as well as follow the Khalsa Code of Conduct. \n\n\n\n Quotes from the Gurus about Who is a Sikh \n\n Comments from Sikh Scholars about who is a Sikh \n\n\nSpiritual Evolution \nStage 1: Manmukh \nA person who is self-centered and only thinks about himself and the material world around him and is totally oblivious to God. \nStage 2: Sikh \nAnyone who sets out on the path of learning and meets the specific definition of a Sikh as appears in the Reht Maryada (Official Code of Conduct). \nStage 3: Khalsa \nTotal dedication to Sikhism. One who has has shed his ego and personality and truly honours the memory of Guru Gobind Singh through his actions and deeds. \nStage 4: Gurmukh \nOne who has achieved mukhti (salvation) and is totally God-centered. \n\n\nThe Physical Articles of Faith \n\nKesh: \nLong unshorn hair. A symbol of spirituality. The Kesh reminds a Khalsa to behave like the Guru's. It is a mark of dedication and group consciousness, showing a Khalsa's acceptance of God's will. Long hair have long been a common element of many spiritual prophets of various religions such as Jesus, Moses and Buddha. \n\n Dastar: \nTurban. A symbol of royalty and dignity. Historically the turban has been held in high esteem in eastern and middle eastern cultures. Guru Gobind Singh transformed this cultural symbol into a religious requirement so that the Khalsa would always have high self-esteem. It differentiates Sikhs from other religious followers who keep long hair but wear caps or keep matted hair. The turban cannot be covered by any other head gear or replaced by a cap or hat. The turban is mandatory for Sikh men and optional for Sikh women. \n\n Kangha: \nComb. A symbol of hygiene and discipline as opposed to the matted unkept hair of ascetics. A Khalsa is expected to regularly wash and comb their hair as a matter of self discipline. \n\n Kara: \nSteel bracelet. A symbol to remind the wearer of restraint in their actions and remembrance of God at all times. \n\n Kachha: \nDrawers. A symbol signifying self control and chastity. \n\n Kirpan: \nCeremonial Sword. A sym
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God- all loving, but has the unfortunate characteristic of not existing.\n\nJesus- taught a lot of good things, but also taught many things which I believe were harmful\n\nThe Colonel- since i'm vegetarian, i'm not inclined to give it to him.\n\nBuddha- Buddha had a lot of wisdom, and most importantly taught good values and reasoning and disdained dogma and doctrine.  He is my choice.