Guru - [6]

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Q: What is the significance of Guru's grace in the

attainment of liberation?

 

A: Liberation is not anywhere outside you. It is only

within. If a man is anxious for deliverance, the

internal Guru pulls him in and the external Guru

pushes him into the Self. This is the grace of the

Guru.

 

Q: Some people reported you to have said that there

was no need for a Guru. Others gave the opposite

report. What does Maharshi say?

 

A: I have never said that there is no need for a Guru.

 

Q: Sri Aurobindo and others refer to you as having

had no Guru.

 

A: It all depends on what you call a Guru. He need not

be in a human form. Dattatreya had twenty-four Gurus

including the five elements - earth, water, etc. Every

object in this world was his Guru. The Guru is

absolutely necessary. The Upanishads say that none

but a Guru can take a man out of the jungle of

intellect and sense perceptions. So there must be a

Guru.

 

Q: I mean a human Guru - Maharshi did not have one.

 

A: I might have had one at one time or other. But did

I not sing hymns to Arunachala? What is a Guru? Guru

is God or the Self. First a man prays to God to fulfil

his desires. A time comes when he will no more pray

for the fulfilment of material desires but for God

Himself. God then appears to him in some form or

other,

human or non-human, to guide him to Himself in answer

to his prayer and according to his needs.

 

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Be As You Are

The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

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