My Guru

[Guest guest]

Dilip Kumar Roy:

 

While all say Guru’s direction is necessary, it seems Bhagavan has said

a Guru is not necessary.

 

Sri Bhagavan:

 

I have not said so. But a Guru need not always be in human form. First a

person thinks he is an inferior and that there is a superior, all-knowing and

all-powerful God who controls his own and the world’s destiny, and worships him

or does bhakti. When he reaches a certain stage and becomes fit for

enlightenment, the same God whom he was worshipping comes as Guru and leads him

on. That Guru comes only to tell him, “The God is within yourself. Dive within

and realise.” God, Guru and the Self are the same.

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Everything in the world was my Guru. Don’t you know that Dattatreya, when he was

asked by the King which Guru had taught him the secret of Bliss, replied that

the earth, water, fire, animals, men and so on —all were his Gurus and went on

explaining how some of these taught him to cling to what was good and others

taught him what things he should avoid as bad.

 

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>From ‘Day by Day with Bhagavan’

by Devaraja Mudaliar.

30th October, 1945