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So, a guru welcomes ignorant persons too, as long as they have innocence as well. Wisdom flowers only in innocence, not in knowledge. One who comes to study comes with his mind, one who comes to learn comes with his whole being.
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It is not easy to become a disciple –a lot of preparation is needed to surrender to a guru.Ī real guru says ‘come to me to learn, not to study’. For this, the disciple has to have a womb-like receptivity to the guru, should become part of the guru, breathe along with the guru and grow in the guru’s womb of knowledge.
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The guru’s work is to remove ego, and destroy falsity from the very existence of the disciple. Just as Ramakrishna Paramahamsa found fulfilment in a disciple like Vivekananda, a guru is always seeking the meaning for his existence through the perfect disciple. The guru’s being derives power from a disciple Once initiated into a mantra by the guru, the mantra itself becomes the guru for a disciple who has surrendered. One has to totally surrender and plug into the power point of the guru tattva (guru principle) understand the glory of the relationship. For him, his sadguru becomes personal, and the jagadguru becomes universal. An external guru gently points you in the right direction, not just as a signboard, but also by travelling with you along your journey and taking you to the very entrance of the temple of the soul – but you have to enter the temple yourself.įor a disciple, guru is the incarnation of God. It is immaterial whether the guru is external or internal the important thing is to surrender the ego. At an external level, one who helps you on your inner journey can be a guru – it could be your own wife or anybody else. That energy which re-establishes contact with yourself is your guru.Įveryone’s personal guru is the atma, the principle that eternally directs and protects the incarnated being. In gross terms, light dispels darkness at a subtle level, the guru is the inner self-knowledge that dispels ignorance. However, in meditation, one can come up with a hundred thousand meanings for this beautiful word, for Sanskrit is a divine language whose every letter vibrates with the different chakras of the human body. Guru is a Sanskrit word, which means ‘that which expels darkness’. A guru is not a person at all – it is the positive, eternal force behind everything it is the reason for one’s very existence, an omnipresent energy.