“Do we have to give a gift to our gurus on Guru Purnima?” Ambika asked me, curious about the guru parampara.
“Some people do,” I said. “But it’s not mandatory.”
Is it possible to thank a guru for all they’ve done? As students what can we do for our gurus? What can we give our guru as a guru purnima offering?
After spending more than a decade within the guru parampara I realise now that the question isn’t what to give our gurus, the question is how do we honor our gurus?
Perhaps by living our lives in service to the words, the ideas, the movement and the philosophies they have taught us so that they live on in our bodies, minds and consciousness, and the guru parampara remains an unbroken chain.