.....Need for a Guru....

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...... " Need for a Guru " ....

 

The question whether Guru is needed is often times debated by people with great

warmth, some holding that there is need and others holding that there is no

need. These debates are usually in fructuous and they excite and result in loss

of peace. A good example is Hemadpant alias Anna Saheb Dabolkars case on his

first visit to Shirdi. He hotly contested for one hour or so and, contended that

a Guru was an unnecessary fetter and quoted the Gita, in his support. Bala Saheb

Bhate took the opposite view and maintained that destiny was supreme and that a

Guru was had by all. The dis­cussion made Anna Dabolkar less fit to approach the

great Guru Sai Baba by reason of restlessness. But Baba by graciously revealing

his Antarjnana of all that passed during the discussion made Anna Dabolkar feel

humble and contrite, and he felt that Baba was a wondrous Supreme Power before

whom he and his weak powers should bend and give up his reason and supposed

independence. And thus he became the shishya of Baba by the latters grace and

found that destiny had fixed him up, though his reasoning might indicate

independence was his proper course. The Sastras, for example, Srimad Bhagavata,

Bhagavata Gita, Guru Gita, Katha, Mundaka, Taittiriya, Maha Narayanopanishad say

clearly that without a Guru Brahmanjnana and Moksha cannot be attained. " .......