TEACHER vs GURU

Generally though giver of knowledge in a systematic fashion is known as teacher,

in our tradition, he is also on certain occasions, he is called Guru.

So what is the distinction between the two ?

Read on .....beautifully explained.

TEACHER vs GURU

A teacher takes responsibility of your growth

A Guru makes you responsible for your growth 

A teacher gives you things you do not have and require

A Guru takes away things you have and do not require 

A teacher answers your questions

A Guru questions your answers 

A teacher helps you get out of the maze

A Guru destroys the maze

A teacher requires obedience and discipline from the pupil

A Guru requires trust and humility from the pupil 

A teacher clothes you and prepares you for the outer journey

A Guru strips you naked and prepares you for the inner journey 

A teacher is a guide on the path

A Guru is a pointer to the way 

A teacher sends you on the road to success

A Guru sends you on the road to freedom

  

A teacher explains the world and its nature to you

A Guru explains yourself and your nature to you 

A teacher makes you understand how to move about in the world

A Guru shows you where you stand in relation to the world 

A teacher gives you knowledge and boosts your ego

A Guru takes away your knowledge and punctures your ego

  

A teacher sharpens your mind

A Guru opens your mind 

A teacher shows you the way to prosperity

A Guru shows the way to serenity 

A teacher reaches your mind

A Guru touches your soul 

A teacher gives you knowledge

A Guru makes you wise

A teacher gives you maturity

A Guru returns you to innocence 

A teacher instructs you on how to solve problems

A Guru shows you how to resolve issues 

A teacher is a systematic thinker

A Guru is a lateral thinker 

A teacher will punish you with a stick

A Guru will punish you with compassion

A teacher is to pupil what a father is to son

A Guru is to pupil what mother is to her child 

One can always find a teacher

But a Guru has to find and accept you 

A teacher leads you by the hand

A Guru leads you by example 

A teacher instructs you

A Guru constructs you

  

When the course is over you are thankful to the teacher

When the discourse is over you are grateful to the Guru 

When a teacher finishes with you, you graduate

When a Guru finishes with you, you liberate

Lonavala

We went to Lonavla today.
We had breakfast and lunch at Kamat's restaurant
We went to the wax museum and then to karla caves
Then we did Della Adventure for the rest of the day which was a lot of fun.
We ate at Creme della which was a very nice experience.
We would like to come back again to Della Adventure with our cousins.

the lameness of a post. How fleeting thoughts are? why blog at all. Doesn't make sense to me. The one thing i thought about at one moment is not the same the next moment. i am seeing this lovely pigeon out of my balcony. it is looking around almost furiously which makes me think it is trying to see with both eyes. i wonder if its head and beak come in the way of taking in a vision with both eyes. lovely red color making a circle over the black pupil and its actively looking around with its grayish green neonish of a neck color dazzling in the sunlight. its feet with claws look ready to take a flight, much to my consternation as what will i write about if my subject takes away into the blue expanse of the Mumbai sky. The feathers finish of their grayish color with a thick border of black much like a saree's border and the bird has left has my building, crashing my enthusiasm to write anymore. I just don't feel the need to write. The pen is the heaviest object to lift and my eyelids are the heaviest to heave open when it comes to writing nowadays. I am trying to recreate the years when i loved to write, actually wrote stuff which i loved the best and after so many years having flown by in between, writing is just not the same anymore. the laughter, the mirth and joy and the life has disappeared from my writing, that it tastes insipid and feels just vapid, empty , just to fill in the pages. The most repeated advise i hear is not to write while only being inspired but just writing like a practise and we all know that practice maketh perfect. Maneuver, - i have to teach my son the spelling for his Maars spelling bee.

Okay the moment is broken. The magic is lost. My pen is stolen and my muse has disappeared. Thus comes my writing to an end.

With much love and much hope to discovery
Mommy Dearest

Discipline

is the hardest for me to do. To have a routine. So from today , i am going to include all the routines i want, one by one. 

Chennai trip

was eventful. Stressing out on changing the kids's school.

Body Shop Whitening Shiso

Bought the entire .. well not the entire range of products, but most of it

By recommendation of my beautician. 

Face Wash

Serum

Moisturizer with SPF

Night Cream

Make Up Cleaner

I've used the products for one day and already my skin is peeling. Lets see what happens.

Still having a cold.
Still have not signed up for the yoga class, Y wanted me to.
Still having the same small tank for the fishes.

By the way, the catfish died. Didn't want to announce it yet. Felt lazy or felt sad or felt incompetent.
It floated upside down a couple of times. Each time we thought it was dead and tried to fish it out with a net and it swam away. We were hopeful the last time around, but no such luck. We were actually able to fish the dead catfish out with much success about which no one was happy with. I should have guessed. It never understood when we dropped food on the top of the water. It never came up. I was somehow hoping it would be getting those food when the food reached down.

I guess it is not a tropical fish, to eat tropical food. I need to research about catfish, what kind of a fish are they. I took their life too lightly. I just sent Tejas to pick a fish. I expected the shopkeepers to show judgement when I myself a mom, didn't show any judgement by sending Tejas to get a fish, thinking the shopkeepers by now will know the kind of fish i have and the history associated with us.

I need to get a bigger tank for the orange and red fish. They have no space to swim and are still most of the time. Atleast let me remove some of the plants that is taking up too much space.