The Greatness of the Guru

Realization of God is possible only through a Guru. We should acquire the sublime grace of the Guru, for until the kundalini Shakti is awakened by the Guru’s grace, until our inner light shines until the inner eye of divine knowledge gets opened, we continue to be in the state of bondage. Therefore, to de velop inwardly and to attain divinity, it is absolutely necessary to have a guide-a Sadguru who knows the Ultimate Truth and is full of spiritual power. Just as there can be no life without prana, so without the Guru there can be no knowledge, no unfolding and growth of Shakti, no destruction of darkness, no opening of the third eye. The Guru is more necessary than a friend, a son husband, or a wife; more necessary than, wealth, machines, factories, art, or music. What more can I say? The Guru is more necessary than health and life itself. The glory of the Guru is full of mystery and is supremely divine. He gives a new birth to man; he makes him see the light of wisdom; he shows him the path and makes him a lover of God.

A true Guru awakens the inner Shakti of a disciple and makes him revel in the bliss of the Self. This is what the Guru really is: he is the one who awakens the inner Shakti, Kundalini through Shaktipat (infusion of Shakti) that is sets the divine Shakti in motion in man’s body who gives instruction in yoga, who bestows the ecstasy of knowledge and the joy of Bhakti, who teaches detachment in action and grants liberation in this very life. That supreme Guru is identical with Shiva. That Guru is Shiva, that Guru is Rama, That Guru is Shakti that Guru is Ganapati, Guru is your father and mother. He makes the light blaze in the body of his disciple, gives him his blessing and grace, and then remains engrossed in his own sport. Through the favour of the Guru , man takes on the form of God and live drunk with ecstasy. Such a Guru is great and exalted; he cannot be understood by ordinary intellect.

Normally, it very difficult to get to know Guru, to understand them. If some-one performs a small miracle, we accept him as a guru. If someone gives a little sermon, we accept him as a guru. If someone gives a man-tra or shows a technique of Tantra, we accept him as a guru. In this way, accept many people as guru that we are cheated of inner realization. Finally, our faith is destroyed, and we begin to think that the tradition of trans-mission of knowledge through the Guru itself is hypocrisy. The result is that we stay far away from true Guru. We get deceived by phoney gurus and then despise true Guru.

Don’t abandon a Self-Realized Guru thinking that he is an ordinary person. You will understand his greatness only when his full grace descends on You. The Guru elevates his disciples to a high level, shows them their own true nature, merges them with Shiva, and makes them Shiva.

What wonderful fortune it is to have such a Guru as your own Guru, to be initiated by such a Siddha. The word given by him is a live and potent mantra. The supreme Guru, full of Chiti (pure Consciousness), enters the disciple through mantra, through touch, or through look. Therefore, it is no wonder that a disciple can attain to perfection by living with such Guru, by establishing a relationship with him, by living in his ashram by touching his feet and drinking the water that has been sane- tidied by them, by eating his Prasad, by serving him and praising him, by absorbing the vibrations of Chiti that Flow his love intoxicated state.