WHERE IS MY GURU?
Guru is
Creator God, Guru is Preserver God, and, Guru is Transformer God.
One's attitude towards one's guru is the
same as to the Supreme Being.
The same is true stated in
reverse:
Creator God is Guru, Preserver God is Guru,
and, Transformer God is Guru.
One's attitude towards the Supreme is
the same as to one's guru.
Before one can have a relationship with the
Guru, one's relationship with the
Supreme must be solid. Daily, some
leisure must be found dedicated
solely to seek and find the Supreme. The
seeking should not be stopped
until there is the finding. This a daily
exercise. Once one has some
experience with the Presence of the Lord, then, if one would be benefited by
a human guru, then the guru will come.
To see the Supreme in another, one must
first see the Supreme in oneself. This
experience lets one know what the Supreme is like, so that when one sees the
similar qualities in a man, or feels the presence of the Lord when one is in
the presence of a particular man, the qualities of the vibration are
recognized to be Divine. Without a firm,
solid base of finding God within
yourself, in prayer, meditation, and, contemplation, a relationship with a guru
may be dangerous as one must only accept the Divine from one and reject
everything else.
If there is not a knowing of the Divine
first, then one may follow a false or
unqualified guru, the blind leading the blind.
I had a born
again experience and was very involved
in an Inner Life church wherein there were many saints. My time with
the Word was a real communion with the Lord because I did whatever it took,
spent as much time that was needed to get to that state where the Bible became the Living Word.
It was my curiosity and the innate human
tendency to think that the grass is greener
on the other side which lead me to pray about reading other scriptures
and finding a human guru. I felt a
strong confirmation from my sense of the
Divine to go ahead. Having thus a sense
of the Divine, I was able to
recognize it in some spiritual teachers, and also recognize it's absence in
others. Then even after accepting my
guru the Supreme granted discernment, the ability to separate the Divine
from the human in my guru, and thus only to receive the profitable,
and disregard the unprofitable.
In conclusion, one should take the Supreme as one's guru, and, when this Infallible Guru says, You may now have a human guru because now you know the true guru and thus
cannot be deceived."
Then the guru will come.
Then the guru will come.
