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By Paramhansa Yogananda,
The relationship of guru and disciple depicts the only real way to retrace the truant soul’s footsteps back to God.
In the beginning it is wise to compare many spiritual paths and teachers, but when the real guru and the real teaching are found, then the restless searching must cease. The thirsty one should not keep seeking wells, but should go to the best well and daily drink its nectar. That is why in India, in the beginning we seek many until we find the right path, and the right master, and then remain loyal to him through death and eternity, until final emancipation. We can have many teachers first, but only one guru, and no more teachers afterward.
Teachers call those who come to learn from them, students, but a guru calls the spiritual aspirant who comes to him, a disciple. Jesus himself said, “None cometh unto the Father but by Me.” This signifies that human souls are mostly truant children of God roaming away from Him in the wilderness of suffering. Such souls are impelled by the scourge of sorrow to have faint glimpses of their lost home of spiritual blessedness.
They begin to long for God, and inwardly pray for a way out of the conundrum of life and then, when the prayers of such errant children become deep and strong enough, God is touched and sends help. It is then that the one Father of all sends a superman on earth to give help to the lost seeking souls. Such a man, ordained by God to help the individual in response to deep prayer, is not an ordinary teacher, but a guru, or a vehicle, whose body, speech, mind, and spirituality God Himself uses to bring the lost souls back to the home of immortality.
We meet little teachers in the beginning through our vague desires to know truth. But the guru (or preceptor) is the living embodiment of scriptural truths and is the agent of salvation appointed by God in response to a devotee’s demands for release from all the bondage of matter.
It is very difficult to choose the right path from the many religious paths and varied religious opinions. Most people, who wander from church to church seeking intellectual inspiration, never find God, for intellectual inspiration is necessary only until one begins to “drink” God. Otherwise, intellectual inspiration, (when it forgets to taste God), is detrimental to Self-realization.
It is more easy to follow a living, breathing, talking man (who lives truth) than to follow mute scriptures. If a saint has reached his goal, whether by the shorter yoga route, or by the long spiritual-prayer way, he experiences actual Self-realization. Anyone following him certainly will reach the goal by using either method.
Unlike ordinary prayers, real prayers, which alone can bring conscious response from God, must be offered in meditation, intensely, for many hours continuously until divine response comes. Usually, there is instantaneous recognition between guru and disciple, but sometimes it takes a long time to remember consciously that past close friendship, or to recall the forgotten memory of past incarnations, so long buried beneath ash-heaps of ignorance.
very good…
very profound and deep………..!!!
Thanks So Very Much!
Nice article-RG
Why one should be in search of right path or right guru, if you are a right student every path is right and every guru is right. One should try to be a right student rather than seeking a right teacher. If you are a right student you can learn even from a monkey like gandhiji.
vrey correct i also agree by the above say..
Loved the book re read it like millions of times…….and am still not sure if I got the full meanings of the lines there…
In Spirituality, Teacher is the one who gives us spiritual knowledge ( gyan ) & Guru is the one who gives us deliverance ( mukti)…… the good subtle thing is that there are no two different identities, only their duty ( kartavya ) gets distinguished just for the sake of us……. & its never the question of being a disciple or a right or wrong student…. We are the child of God & He is our supreme father, to kaha disciple ka sawaal aata hai?? He is thereby our Supreme Teacher & Supreme Sadguru…………
‘guru govind dono khade,
kake lagu paye?’
the guru is the great soul who makes us aware of the even lovelier soul within us.
is it possible to see GOD?
All questions shunned after i found my “Guru”
Sai Satcharita says Guru bina gati nahi
Beautifully explained
” Guru ” is important because when you think of Guru, when you shift your focus to the Guru in a few moments, your energy gets restored, you get back to your normal self. How many of you have experienced this? There is an old proverb ‘Guru bina gati nahin’ means there is no progress without the Guru because there are so many people around you and you are being tossed and turned by everybody’s moods, emotions and blames, and you are stuck, you can’t notice that. But when a Guru is there nothing of this will matter to you and even if it does it is only for few minutes or hours and then you are able to push through it, move through it. Like you have a rain coat and if it is raining you can always protect yourself from rain. In this context ancient people in India, Korea, Japan even in China had said that spiritual teacher, master or a person who is on the path is so important, so that you don’t have to keep feeling this negative vibrations, heaviness for daystogether.
The word “guru” is made up of two different words..gu and ru…>put together,it means “the dispeller of darkness”-one who brings light in darkness of ignorance.so Anyone who comes into your life and who is able to clarify or bring light to your confusion,to explain things to you ..is termed a GURU..
Sanjib…i really appreciate dis point that ..It is more easy to follow a living, breathing, talking man (who lives truth) than to follow mute scriptures..n this is true that anyone who has reached self realisation by either short ways or long ways …his followers will definitely reach d goal..
each day reading something or other n learning something new…n amazingly U r ur thoughts itself bringing light in darkness of ignorance..
so i can say it is d kinda role of a GURU….(:(: .
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