The Guru-Devotee Relationship

Everyone has an intuition of their true nature.  At a certain point, that intuition becomes a compelling, conscious wish to be true, free, and truly happy.  When one comes to this point, one’s consciousness starts to call down the function of great help that we call “Guru.”  Guru means light in the darkness.  When our need for light becomes our primary need, the function of the Guru appears and light enters our life in the form of a living being. 

The Guru-devotee relationship has always been and will always be the essence of religious and Spiritual practice. The Great Means for Divine Realization is to enter into the Spiritual and Blessing of the Realizer at all times and in every circumstance. The relationship to the Realizer is unreasonably happy, absolutely ecstatic, for in his (or her) Person, the devotee is brought face-to-face with the Living God.

At the same time, this relationship is a Sacred Ordeal, a “hard school,” for the process of Spiritual Practice necessarily requires that the devotee understand and surrender all of his or her limitations and egoic self-attention. But through the grace of the Guru, this process is given great help and guidance, and ultimate realizations made truly possible.

Such love is the heart of devotion to the Guru. It is the vehicle through which the aspirant surrenders him or herself, and thus opens to Divine Grace. In a mature devotee, such love is always coupled with self-understanding and real practice. There is no question but that genuine spiritual practice is extremely difficult – it is justly known to be the most heroic process that a human being can be involved in, requiring everything of an individual.

Realization, however, is not an attainment or an accomplishment. It is responsibility for the full range of one's experience in cooperation with the Guidance and the Grace of the Guru.

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"The bodily-enacted worship of the Guru is traditionally understood to be a great gift, because to worship the Guru with true devotion and responsiveness is to be granted the Guru's gifts. In the West, however, there is a great taboo against the worship of another. The taboo exists because such worship is only conceived to be the worship, by egos, of another ego. And, indeed, there are a multitude of good reasons to avoid the cultic "deification" of egos. But true worship of the Guru is not worship of an "other", but of the Very Divine Condition. "

ADI DA SAMRAJ

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