"May one have more than one spiritual master?" - Sri Ramana

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Who is a master? He is the Self after all.

According to the stages of development of the

mind the Self manifests as the master externally.

The famous ancient saint Dattatreya said that he

had more than twenty-four masters. The master is

one from who one learns anything. The Guru may

be sometimes inanimate also, as in the case of

Dattatreya. God, Guru and the Self are identical.

 

A spiritually-minded man thinks that God is all-

pervading and takes God for his Guru. Later, God

brings him in contact with a personal Guru and the

man recognises him as all in all. Lastly the same

man is made by the grace of the master to feel

that his Self is the master.

 

~Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

 

 

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