GURU TATTVAM - Ch-9.2-161 to 170. Ref : Present day students at all level must know this, students job is learning and not the agents of dirty politicians who are not your real guru.

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Chapter -9. Guru-Bhakti Yoga -2.161 to 170

2. Now then an exposition of Guru-Bhakti-Yoga. 161 to 170.


161. If the disciple really desires to improve himself, he must be frank with himself and straightforward to his Guru.

162. He who is disobedient, who breaks the discipline, who is not straightforward to his Guru, who cannot open his heart to his preceptor or spiritual guide, cannot be benefited by the help of Guru. He remains stuck in his own self-created mire or mud and cannot progress in the divine path. What a great pity! His lot is highly lamentable indeed.

163. The disciple must make total, unreserved, ungrudging self-surrender to the Lord or Guru.

164. All that the teacher can do is to tell his disciple the method of knowing the Truth or the Path, that leads to the unfoldment of intuitional faculty.

165. The aspirant who is endowed with the four means of Salvation, hears the Srutis and the significance of “Tat Tvam Asi” Mahavakya at the feet of his Guru, and then reflects deeply on what he has heard.

166. Fix the mind on the form of Lord Hari or Lord Siva or Lord Krishna or your Guru or any saint like Lord Buddha or Lord Jesus. Again and again try to call this mental image of the picture. All thoughts will die. This is another method, the method of Bhaktas.

167. Obedience is precious virtue, because if you try to develop the virtue of obedience, the ego, the archenemy on the path of Self-realisation, slowly gets rooted out.

168. To have complete obedience to Guru is a difficult task, but by trying with sincerity it becomes easy.

169. Even ordinary action requires great pain, so in the spiritual path, one must be prepared to subject oneself to some sort of discipline and try to cultivate obedience to the Teacher.

170. Far more than worship, garlanding and other outward manifestations of one’s inner Bhava of adorations and worshipfulness, obedience to Guru is greater.

Next : 2. Now then an exposition of Guru-Bhakti-Yoga.171 to 180
Swami Sivananda
     To be continued...

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