The Ideal Wise Guru (by Mahatma Gandhi)

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Only that one is a true worshipper of God, who is not jealous, who is generous

to everyone and without any egoism. Who can bear heat and cold, happiness and

harm equally, who always forgives, is constantly satisfied, whose decisions are

firm and whose mind and soul is surrendered to God. Who does not cause any evil,

who is not afraid of others, and who is as free of excitement as of worries and

fears, who is pure, efficient at work but yet not touched by it, who gives up

all the fruits of his acting, the good ones as well as the bad ones, who treats

friends and enemies in the same way, who stays untouched by respect or lack of

respect, who is not pampered by praise but also not depressed if people talk

badly of him, who likes the silence and the lonelines and who has a disciplined

mind.

 

The Yogi is therefore one, in whom all these capabilities are reflected in his

life and who in the midst of a furious storm still sees the sun, who faces the

difficulties and the death, who with a balanced quiet mind walks over a

battlefield or goes to the executioners, and whose Spirit is so joyful that even

thunder puts him to sleep.

 

(Sahaja Newsletter - 9 July, 1993)