Guru and the Light within

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Guru and the Light within“If you prepare yourself to know the higher knowledge, then youwill deserve. To deserve means to increase your capacity. You want to put the entire ocean in a bucket. The ocean is there. You can have it, but you do not have the capacity. When you deserve, you will have the capacity. The Lord, the Reality, the Truth, is always within you. You simply have to become aware. You can make sincere efforts to work with yourself. Don’t be disappointed with failures. When you start to makesincere efforts and start to practice, you will find light on the path. The light itself will guide you. The light of consciousness is within you. If you ignore that light, the guide outside

you, the external teacher, will be of no use to you. He will make you a slave. Every individual has certain notions. He also lives with his notions. He creates a following and millions of people are swayed and misguided.Do you know what a guide means? The word guru has been vulgarized. Such a pious word is being misused. I call it guide. Do not depend much on guides. It is better for you to prepare yourself and remain awake. The scriptures say to wake up from the deep sleep of ignorance. Remain fully awake, remain conscious, and go on learning. Never close the door of learning. The day you close the door of learning you become ego, ego, ego. In the Himalayas the teacher examines the student and the student examines the teacher. When my master sent me to various teachers he told me, “The teacher who can sit still for a long time is a good teacher because he has practiced something. Listen to him. If the teacher

changes his posture many times in five minutes, do not waste your time there.” There are certain signs and symptoms that havebeen explained by the great scriptures. The scriptures help the student to know who is a good teacher so he does not waste much time. Otherwise, what are we teachers doing? Suppose you want to go to New York. You come to Swami Rama for directions and Swami Rama says to go this way. You meet a different Rama on the way and he says, “Oh, come on! He does not knowanything. Go this way.” And the student is very sincere. Thenanother teacher says, “Both Ramas are fools. Better go thisway.” By that time the poor fellow has wasted twelve years and heis nowhere. The word teacher means “knowledge.” The knowledge should befollowed, not the individual personality of the teacher. The subject should be given prime importance, not the individual. Teachers have complicated things. Yoga science has suffered

because of this. One teacher says, “This is my method.” Another teacher says,“This is my method.” The poor student is confused. After sometime he finds that his mind, his individuality, and his pocket have been robbed. When you become aware of the light within, and that light reveals the Truth to you, there are no chances of being misguided. Teachers come and go. From your external teacher just pick up that which is useful for you and leave that which is not useful. No doubt you need a teacher, a guide. I will never tell you that you should not seek and you should not learn from other people, or that you should not study books. Teachers only inspire you and make you aware of that Self-existence that you have forgotten. Their role is to make you aware of the Reality. You do not need any new form. Christians should not become Hindu, Hindus should not become Buddhist, and Buddhists should not become anything else.

They should remain as they are and not create any serious new problems for themselves. A known devil is better than an unknown devil. Remember this. Try to make your life happy wherever you are. Yoga science tells you to go to the inner levels of your being and be guided by the light that is already within you, that leads you in the darkness. If you understand the light within, when you are introduced to that light, you will not crave for any outer guidance. Learn to make your abode in darkness so that you can see the light, but not the superficial light. Superficial light creates problems for you and does not allow you to see the light within. When you start treading the path you will never find any difficulty, for the light is already within you. The light within you is coming out. When I look at your faces I find that they are different because of the light that has the power of discrimination. That light can

correctly judge and understand and know. That light is higher than any other light of the sun, the moon, and the stars. That is why human beings are superior to all these lights that you see outside yourself. In the light of the sun, in the light of the moon, and in the light of the stars there is no discrimination. The light within you has the power of discrimination. You can use that light to see the darkest corners of your inner chamber. For that you do not need outer guidance. The purpose of a guide, guru, or teacher is to introduce you to that light.”Guru and the Light withinhttp://swamij.com/swami-rama-guru.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

 

 

 

 

 

“One has to know on this point that you have got the Light . . . You have to give up all that is falsehood. If you are fully enlightened you will give up automatically. You don’t have to be told. The Spirit automatically feels responsible that it has to give Light. It has to tell that you please give Light, because it is Light. Because it is Eternal Light nothing can kill it. There is a sloka, "It cannot be killed by anybody, nothing can destroy it. Even if you want to suck it you cannot." It is such a powerful Light. You can verify

it whether it is eternal or not. You have to see for yourself you have such a unique Light within you. In the history of spirituality of this world so many have got Realization — such a Light in them. How could these stupid, flimsy, useless conditionings dominate you now, when you are the carrier of Eternal Light.”

Shri Sahasra-dala-padmastha DeviBeing The Light Of Pure Compassion,Istanbul, Turkey — November 6, 1994Sahasra-dala-padmastha (528th): Residing in the Thousand-Petaled

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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shriadishakti , jagbir singh

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" One has to know on this point that you have got the Light . . .

You have to give up all that is falsehood. If you are fully

enlightened you will give up automatically. You don't have to be

told. The Spirit automatically feels responsible that it has to give

Light. It has to tell that you please give Light, because it is

Light. Because it is Eternal Light nothing can kill it.

 

There is a sloka, " It cannot be killed by anybody, nothing can

destroy it. Even if you want to suck it you cannot. " It is such a

powerful Light. You can verify it whether it is eternal or not. You

have to see for yourself you have such a unique Light within you. In

the history of spirituality of this world so many have got

Realization — such a Light in them. How could these stupid,

flimsy, useless conditionings dominate you now, when you are the

carrier of Eternal Light. "

 

Shri Sahasra-dala-padmastha Devi

Being The Light Of Pure Compassion,

Istanbul, Turkey — November 6, 1994

Sahasra-dala-padmastha (528th): Residing in the Thousand-Petaled

 

 

 

 

" This universal symbol of Light is surely one of the best symbols

Man has found to express the delicate balance that almost all

cultures have tried to maintain, with varying success, between a

merely this-worldly or atheistic attitude and a totally otherworldly

or transcendent attitude. There must be some link between the world

of Men and the world of the Gods, between the material and the

spiritual, the immanent and the transcendent. If this link is of a

substantial nature, pantheism is unavoidable. If the link is

exclusively epistemic, as Indian and many other scholasticisms tend

to affirm, the reality of this world will ultimately vanish. The

symbol of Light avoids these two pitfalls by allowing for a specific

sharing in its nature by both worlds or even by the " three worlds. "

 

This is the supreme light spoken of in the Rig Veda and in the

Brahmanas; it is mentioned also in the Chandogya Upanishad and in the

well-known prayer of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: " Lead me from

darkness to light!'' It is also the refulgent light of the golden

vessel stationed in the dwelling place of the Divine: " The

impregnable stronghold of the Gods has eight circles and nine gates.

It contains a golden vessel, turned toward heaven and suffused with

light.'' This light is neither exclusively divine nor exclusively

human, neither merely material nor merely spiritual, neither from

this side only nor from the other. It is precisely this fact

that " links the two shores. " This light is cosmic as well as

transcosmic. "

 

Professor Raimundo Panikkar, The Vedic Experience

 

 

 

" The Bible is seen to be full of terms about light. Lossky tells

us that " for the mystical theology of the eastern Church these are

not metaphors, rhetorical figures but words expressing a real aspect

of godliness. " " The godly light does not have an abstract and

allegorical meaning. It is a data of the mystical experience. " The

author then referred to " Gnostics " , the highest level of godly

knowledge [that] is an experience (a living) of the noncreated light,

where the experience itself is the light: in lumine tuo videbimus

lumen (in Your Light we shall see light.) "

 

Eternal, endless, existing beyond time and space, it appeared in the

theophanies of the Old Testament as the Glory of God. The Glory

is " the Uncreated Light, His Eternal Kingdom. " Being bestowed to the

Christians by the Holy Spirit, the energies appear no longer as

external causes but as grace, as inner light. " Makarius the Egyptian

wrote: " It is . . . the enlightenment of the holy souls, the

steadiness of the heavenly powers " (Spiritual Homilies V.8.)

 

" The godly light appears here, in this world, in time. It is

disclosed in the history but it is not of this world; it is eternal,

it means going out from the historical existence: `the secret of

the eight day', the secret of the true knowledge, the fulfillment

of the Gnosis . . . It is exactly the beginning of parousia in the

holy souls, the beginning of the revealing at the end of times, when

God will be disclosed to everyone in this distant Light. " "

 

Dan Costian, Bible Enlightened

 

 

 

" A common tenet of Hinduism is " Sarva Dharma Sambhava, which

literally means that all Dharmas (truths) are equal to or harmonious

with each other. In recent times this statement has been taken as

meaning " all religions are the same " - that all religions are merely

different paths to God or the same spiritual goal.

 

Based on this logic the religious path that one takes in life is a

matter of personal preference, like choosing whether to eat rice or

chapatis to fill one's stomach. One's choice in religion is merely

incidental and makes no real difference in the spiritual direction of

one's life. Any path is as good as any other. The important thing is

to follow a path. However since the religion of one's birth is not

only as good as any other, but is the closest to access and easiest

to understand, one should usually follow it whatever it may happen to

be.

 

From this point of view whether one is Hindu, Buddhist, Christian,

Muslim, or of another religious belief is not important. Whether one

goes to a temple, church or mosque, it is all the same. Whether one

prays to Jesus or Allah or meditates upon Buddha or Atman the results

cannot be ultimately different. All religions are equally valid ways

of knowing God or truth. The outer differences between religions are

merely incidental while their inner core is one, the knowledge of the

Divine or supreme reality. Therefore members of all religious groups

should live happily together, recognizing that there is no real

conflict in what they believe in but only superficial variations of

name and form. "

 

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