Lucy Ma about the Guru-pitfall

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"The most cunning pitfall on the path of the sadhaka is the

last one, hidden in Realisation Itself.

 

The first Revelation of the Self is temporary.

"Jnana, once revealed, needs time to steady itself".

(Talks, 141)

 

The danger is not in the sliding back; it is natural to most

sadhakas and is met quite naturally by continuing one's

practice faithfully, which in its turn will lead to further

Revelations of the Self until finally there is no sadhaka left,

but the Self only.

 

If, on the other hand, the sadhaka tries to 'hold on' to that

first Revelation, in spite of his Inner Guide warning him,

(Who is holding on?), then the ego ... I slinks again in

where the Self is veiled again and distorts the Revelation

of the Self into the cry of victory: 'I have realised!'

 

Blindfolded by the Bliss of the final 'success' (whose

success?) he stops to scrutinize his condition and

thus never finds out the truth: That he became a yoga-

bhrashta, one who has fallen out of his yoga, his 'union'.

 

The new and definite disguise of his ego...I is 'the Guru',

and this last and most powerful pitfall never releases him,

because he never recognises that he is its victim.

 

There are nowadays many whose Guru-pitfall caught them

even much earlier on their path.

 

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Lucy Cornelssen: Hunting the 'I', pp. 50-51

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