Maharshi- may one have more than one spiritual master?

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Question: May one have more than one spiritual master?

 

Sri Ramana Maharshi: Who is a master? He is the Self after all.

According to the stages of development of the mind the Self manifests

as the master externally. The famous ancient Dattatreya said that he

had more than twenty-four masers. The master is one from whom one

learns anything. The Guru may be sometimes inanimate also, as in the

case of Dattatreya. God, Guru and the Self are identical.

 

A spiritually minded man thinks that God is all pervading and takes

God for his Guru. Later, God brings him in contact with a personal

Guru and the man recognises him as all in all. Lastly the same man is

made by the grace of the master to feel that his Self is the reality

and nothing else. Thus he finds that the Self is the master.

 

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