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Who is a guru? - RaVai

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We need to understand what a guru is.

For some, having a guru is a mere formality.

For a few others, the guru is a teacher.

To some people, he is the teaching itself it’s embodied, living example. And then, there are those people for whom the guru is its very essence. Fact remains, the guru is all these. 

Teaching is the guru's lowest level.

It is his lowest functions. Teaching is limited because if a person does not truly crave for divine knowledge, no teacher can make them learn. And if they do crave it, then they will find hints everywhere, and teaching becomes redundant.

Also the knowledge one gains through teaching is always secondhand knowledge.

Secondhand knowledge doesn't enlighten us very much. It is better to observe and experience something for yourself. Also, you check always a guru's words against your own heart. If your heart agrees with them, you say, “Yes, the guru is correct. If not, you ignore the guru. The guru's purpose is not really to teach. It is the example that we need to follow. It is his presence that does everything and it works when the aspirant's heart is ready to flower. Even as a bud that comes into contact with the sun's rays starts to open up, an aspirant's heart opens up before the guru and the guru does nothing to impose on the aspirant for that would be destructive.

All that the guru does is to clean us and transmit his nature to us. But to become as guru all we have to do is to work hard as the guru himself. We have to practice and through practice, prepare our hearts so that they draw everything out of the guru.

That is precisely why we need to clean, meditate, and offer prayer day after day as guru does. Without our work, the guru's presence in our lives goes to waste.

In other words our personal work is the catalyst to bring about a change in us like our guru.

 

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