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by Gregorian Bivolaru

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Even though the spiritual guide is selfless and unconditionally looks after his disciples, he is always the one who gives guidance, help and commands and not vice-versa.

A disciple who gets angry because his GURU does not do what he wants or does not satisfy his strange wishes shows monumental ignorance and egoism.

Just as a mountain guide acts, even though always at the service of his student, he always leads the one who hires him, having better knowledge of how to get to the top of the mountain, so does the spiritual guide or GURU.

In conclusion we have to have complete trust in our spiritual guide, his divine power to decide what is best, his wise inspiration and his selfless will to help us - when we deserve his help.

If for one reason or another, in the course of our spiritual journey, we decide to leave our GURU, we have to accept right from the start the RISK of SPIRITUAL STAGNATION or involution, the risk that we might delay our spiritual evolution with millions of years and gradually yield to demonic or even satanic temptations.

What benefits the disciple has from this relationship is obvious, but what is the benefit for the GURU or spiritual guide? From now on, our analogy of the GURU to the expert mountain guide ceases to function.

While the mountain guide offers his services only for financial rewards, the true spiritual guide does not have any need for material or personal gains and because he is a PERFECT BEING he unconditionally and permanently enjoys a state of supreme happiness and fulfillment.

Benefiting from limitless wealth in spirit, which includes an existence in a state of eternal beatitude accessible at will, he will never be tempted to lead us to the supreme knowledge for material or any other kind of rewards.

His only reward is the divine ecstasy he experiences when one of his disciples reached Self realization. Then Gods joy of receiving one of his sons back flows and manifests in the GURU.

The sacred texts show the single reason for which a perfect being, who reached a state of permanent unity with God or Shiva, would later assume the role of guiding us to a state identical to his own, this being the Infinite Love and Divine Compassion of God.

Only love makes it possible for the perfect spiritual guide to exist in this world, otherwise we would never have known such beings capable of showing us the way towards Self liberation.

Only limitless compassion will make the GURU assume the role of spiritually guiding other people towards spiritual liberation.

But what does such a compassionate and loving being expect as a reward for his invaluable help? The only "thing" the GURU permanently expects from us is that in turn we be perfect disciples, so that he can give us his love and guide us with God's help, full of compassion, towards our spiritual liberation as quickly as possible.

After we reach this stage and are equal to our GURU we become ourselves centers of infinite love and compassion and bestow spiritual light on those who deserve it.

Never forget that although MANY feel called towards the goal of Self realization FEW are chosen. Most of them stumble, hesitate, calculate, stagnate, go astray, criticize, allow themselves to be tempted, fall into doubt or let themselves be overcome by egoism.

The CHOSEN ones are the few who are full of love, humbleness, patience, perseverance and finally, perhaps when they least expected or even when they lost hope, they suddenly reach the ABSOLUTE and are united in ecstasy with GOD.

The biggest enemy of the mediocre disciple is himself, in fact, it is his EGO. Don't forget that "WHEN THE EGO GOES OUT, YOGA INSTANTLY COMES IN, AND WHEN THE EGO COMES IN, YOGA INSTANTLY GOES OUT".

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