SRI GURU POOJA
Full Moon Day of Aashaadha
Devotional worship of the
Guru - the preceptor - is one of the most touching and
elevating features of the Hindu cultural tradition. The auspicious moment of
Vyaasa Poornima, chosen for observing this annual festival, is no less
significant. It was the great sage Vyasa, son of a fisherwoman, who classified
the accumulated spiritual knowledge of the Vedas under four heads - Rig,
Yajur, Saama and Atharva. To him goes the credit of
composing the authentic treatise of Brahma-sootras to explain the
background of Vedas. He also wrote the eighteen Puranas, the stories of our
great heroes and saints, to carry the spiritual and moral precepts contained
therein to the common masses.