Worship of the Guru
Let me make my heart the seat for the Guru and let me
place upon my Guru's feet. Let all my senses sing the chorus of unity
and throw upon the feet of the Guru a hand full of flowers of praise.
Let me apply to the feet of Guru a finger full of sandal ointment, made
pure by the consideration of identity. Let me put upon his feet the
ornaments of spiritual gold....Let me place upon them the eight -
petalled flower of joy. Let me burn the essence of egoism, wave the
lights of self- annihilation and cling to the feet of the Guru with
feeling of absorption.
Spiritual Teacher
The miracle-monger is called a Guru ,but he alone is a
real Guru who leads to liberation.....He who instills in to our mind the
light of the self and dispels the darkness of ignorance, he who brings
in to unison the individual and the universal selves --he alone is
entitled to be called a Guru. He alone ,who relieves people of the
sufferings and takes them out of the meshes of illusion, is entitled to
be called a Guru....He possesses immseulate self knowledge, and the
satisfaction of a determinate life in the self. To add to these ,he must
have extreme dispassion, and his actions should be censure. With him
spiritual discussion must be a constant pastime; for him the
distinguishment between the falls and the true must always take place.
He uplifts the world and becomes and exemplar for the various kinds of
Bhakti. Inwardly, there must be self-illumination; outwardly, there must
be devoted Bhajana, whereby alone he leads his disciples to spiritual
happiness.
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