Reflections on Guru

• Guru is your electric lift. He lifts you to the peak of perfection.
• A more loving, benign, gracious and beloved person can hardly be found in this world than the true preceptor.
• The binding force between guru and disciple must be pure love.
• The company of guru is a question of supply and demand. If there is sincere demand the supply will come at once; this is an inexorable law of nature.
• Darshan of guru removes all darkness and gives immense joy.
• A disciple considers the actions; the guru weighs the intentions and motives.
• Do not act according to the dictates of your lower mind. Act according to the words of your guru.
• To have complete obedience to guru is a difficult task, but by trying with sincerity it becomes easy.
• Every unpleasant incident in life is a test of your trust in guru.
• He who endures all the difficulties while serving his guru conquers his lower nature.
• The guru awakens the divine potentialities of the disciple.
• A hypocritical disciple obeys the guru from fear. The true disciple obeys the guru with pure love, for love’s sake.
• If the heart of the disciple is not satisfied, it shows that obedience to guru is not fully observed by the disciple.
• Your offerings please guru according to your zeal and bhava, feeling, and not according to their nature.
• Guru’s grace cannot be attained by mere mechanical prostration. It can be obtained only when one translates his teachings into life.
• The disciple is more united with guru while personally serving him than while meditating in a solitary cave of the Himalayas.
• The disciple’s life becomes a dreary waste and loses its effulgence when he loses faith in guru.
• If you cannot see God in guru, in who then will you see God?