Word wise interpretation-
- charan– feet
- saroj– lotus
- ruj– dust
The one who is a brahmachaari, is the Guru, the one whose actions are according to the will of the brahma is the Guru. The one who enjoys the senses is not the Guru. Here, Hanuman Ji is revered as Brahmachaari. The concept of marriage does not lie in the concept of Brahmacharya. Mind should be fixed at the soul.
When the Guru walks on the planet, the dust which comes in contact with his feet becomes as pure as lotus, it is merely due to a touch of a lotus-like being.
When Ran Ji was in his exile, Bharat came and asked for his slippers. He received it as the entire Ram was perceived in the dust of His slippers. Bharat perceived Ram Ji as the AatmaRam, and revered him. All the four Dashrath putra were the same eternity, incarnation of Brahmacharya. But, since Ram Ji was eldest amongst them, he was revered.
The one who unites us with the Aatma Ram is the Guru. Even, the Dashrath putra Ram was the Guru, when he was in form. When Hanuman Ji was in form, he was the Guru. But, when the Guru renounces the physical form, he unites with the Unified Light, and is revered as Lord. Kabir Das Ji, Sai Baba and many more, who were revered as Guru, when hey were in form, but, they are entitled as God, after they left the physical abode. Guru makes us realize the Omnipresent Lord within ourselves.
Aad sach, Jugad Sach, Hai bhi sach… this is for the same the Aatma, the soul. Gurur Brahma Gurur Vishnu Gurur Devo Maheshwarah… this verse suggests us that Brahma Ji, Vishnu Ji, and Mahesh Ji are the Guru. Guru Gobind Dau Khade Kake lagu paaye Balihari Guru aapki Gobind Diyo bataye… thus, Guru is more revered than God.
When we say Allah, we cannot feel the essence, but when we say Prophet Mohammed (p.b.u.h), we can perceive a form, who liberated millions and showed the path to Allah. The one who looks like us, and liberates us is the Guru. When Guru places his feet and the dust which touches Him, becomes pure enough to cleanse our mind. The aura and the ether which surrounds him becomes cleanses, and millions feel blessed.
All could not touch the Divine feet of Lord Ram, but the mere remembrance of the transcendental dust can cleanse our minds. This does not indicate any physical touch or rather gathering gross dust.
Once we imagine the Divine being, and visualize that the essence of Brahma tatva is concentrated in his charan, because of the gravity, thus the dust is purified, we are freed. Charan is important, as we receive the blessings when we bow down. In the temples, we prostrate ourselves before the alter, as if a corpse. but the mind is ever ready to use the tactics to foster in materialism. When our minds are prostrated before the alter, we receive the blessings, which make us realize the soul. Once the mind is prostrated, our receiving end blossoms. Blessings are always in showers.
The ruj is smaller than even the thousand part of the electron in an atom, and even it mere reminiscence, can free us. We cannot see the ruj, until it covers a site like a blanket. Despite of the thickness of the dark clouds in the mind, once the ruj descends, all the terror of dullness disappears.
When we bow down superficially, we receive the blessings of name and fame. We thank Lord for such blessings. It is said that we are sent in the girth of hell, by these materialistic blessings, satyaanasha in our dialect. Sat, the aatma can never perish, but since the mind was not fixed on the Soul, we are perished. Such superficial reverence gives all materialistic bounties, but if we bow our mind, even in a magnitude of the nanoparticle, we can become Brahma. From the grand mansions to the ride of rocket, we can receive them, but the ego swells up and kills us.
If we take a little drop of water on our finger tip, and jerk it off the finger, it will segregate into millions of microdroplets. If we bow even for such microscopic magnitude, we will gather the blessings, as being rendered.
We often ask for devotion and discrimination to the Guru, and even suggest that our bounties are his, but his single will of giving off materialistic assets appears cumbersome to us. That means that the wishes were fake, as we are not ready to give off most meagre assets. When we bow down from the mind, at the Divine feet of Guru, we can receive the blessings being 24*7. Until and unless we surrender our mind, it is a mere false hood that we surrender our assets at the Divine feet.