 The festival of Guru Purnima is celebrated in honor of the Guru. The day of full moon, Purnima, in the month of Ashadh is conventionally celebrated as Guru Purnima by Hindus. This festival is also known as Vyas Purnima; Guru Purnima is celebrated in remembrance and veneration to sage Ved. He is the original Guru of the Hindu Dharma, who confidentially wrote the Vedas, the eighteen Puranas and the Mahabharat. On this day, the Guru is offered (Puja) by the disciples.
The festival of Guru Purnima is also known as Vyasa Pumima because Rishi Vyasa himself was a great Guru. Vyasa or Veda-Vyasa was son of Rishi Parashar and Satyavati, who is also known as Krishna Dwaipayna. Guru Poornima is a festival which is celebrated to return the debt we occupy to our gurus and to their teachings.
On this day, all religious and devotees worship Vyasa in honor of his heavenly celebrity and all believers perform worship (puja) of their respective devout preceptor or 'Gurudevs. This day is of yawning significance to the farmers, for its messengers the setting in of the much-needed rains, as the arrival of cool showers escort in fresh life in the fields. It is a good time to begin your menstrual lessons. Usually, religious seekers commence to intensify their spiritual (sadhana) from this day. The time (Chaturmas) "four months" begins from this day. In the past, itinerant religious teachers and their devotees used to settle down at a place to learn and discourse on the Brahma Sutras collected by Vyasa, and engage themselves in Vedantic discussions.
On the Guru Poornima day, usually people take instigation into religious life from some confessor or gain some information for some rule and fast or vigil. These preceptors can not assert the status of the guru as defined in the sloka, ( Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu Guru Devo Maheswara Guru Sakshath Para Brahma Thasmai Shri Gurave Namaha) . On these days the devotees worship and pray to God.
The Guru extolled that there is the sagacious that as transcend name and form and beyond the belongings of the three Gunas, he is neither enthusiastic nor indifferent. He is the Atma, having realized that the Atma is the one and only one. He makes you cast off the fright of birth and death; he causes to be you for the vision of the eternal absolute truth.
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