Guru

Up to now no liberated man has objected to the Guru-vada; it is usually only people who live in the mind or vital and have the pride of the mind and the arrogance of the vital that find it below their dignity to recognise a Guru.

A human soul and nature cannot be dealt with by a set of mental rules applicable to everybody in the same way; if it were so, there would be no need of a Guru, each could set his chart of Yogic rules before him like the rules of Sandown’s exercise and follow them till he becomes the perfect Siddha !

Because all Gurus are the same Divine, it does not follow that the disciple does well if he leaves the one meant for him to follow another. Fidelity to the Guru is demanded of every disciple.

From a humbug you can get nothing but his hum-buggery. He must have something in him which makes the contact with the Divine possible, something which works even if he is not in his outer mind quite conscious of its action. If there is nothing at all spiritual in him, he is not a Guru, only a pseudo.

Many people have a habit of doing Yoga according to their own ideas without caring for the guidance of a Guru — from whom, however, they expect an entire protection and success in sadhana even if they prance or gambol into the wrongness paths possible.

The Mother:

Be faithful to your Guru whoever he is, he will lead you as far as you can go.

But if you are lucky enough to have the Divine as your Guru then there will be no limit to your realisation.