{"id":3317,"date":"2003-07-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/07\/19\/2003-07-19-upadesha-on-the-guru-by-hh-tejomayananda\/"},"modified":"2003-07-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-19T12:00:00","slug":"2003-07-19-upadesha-on-the-guru-by-hh-tejomayananda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/07\/19\/2003-07-19-upadesha-on-the-guru-by-hh-tejomayananda\/","title":{"rendered":"Upadesha on the Guru by H.H. Tejomayananda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/news\/printedition\/120703\/detCIT16.shtml\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 12, 2003: On the occasion of Guru Purnima, H.H. Swami Tejomayananda gave an upadesha in praise of the Satguru. &#8220;In Hinduism the place of the guru is considered higher than that of the Lord Himself. Atheists and nonbelievers feel that this is a gross exaggeration. They cannot comprehend the concept. We learn from teachers, who give us knowledge on various secular subjects; we respect them, but do not revere them, as we do our guru. Is the worship of the guru an overstatement? In any stuti or praise there is, normally, a tendency to exaggerate, but this does not hold true in the adoration of the Lord, His devotees, a mahatma or the guru. In fact, any praises spoken, sung or written about any of these always fall short of their true import. If we say that the sun&#8217;s light is like the light of countless glowworms, will it be an overstatement?&#8221; To read the full text of Swami&#8217;s talk, click on &#8220;source&#8221; above.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceNEW DELHI, INDIA, July 12, 2003: On the occasion of Guru Purnima, H.H. Swami Tejomayananda gave an upadesha in praise,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}