Guru

You should do your duty in the world with love,
and that alone will contribute significantly
to your progress in the path of enlightenment.
You do need one who can guide and help you.
You need an external guru
as a means to attain the guru within you.
Sometimes you may become egotistical and decide,
“I don’t need a guru.”
That is ego talking.
You must tame it.

If you are in search of a guru,
search within first.
To become a yogi means
to know condition here and now;
to work with yourself.

Don’t ever believe anyone who comes to you and demands, “Worship me.”
Even Christ and Buddha did not ask that.
Never forget that guru is not the goal.
Guru is like a boat for crossing the river.
It is very important to have a good boat
and it is very dangerous to have a boat that is leaking.
But after you have crossed the river,
you don’t need to hang on to your boat,
and you certainly don’t worship the boat.

Many fanatics think they should worship a guru.
A guru should receive your love and respect ~
that is different from worship.
If my guru and the Lord both come together,
I will go to my guru first and say,
“Thank you very much. You have introduced me to the Lord.”
I will not go to the Lord and say,
“Thank you very much, Lord. You have given me my guru.”

Increase your capacity.
Purify yourself.
Acquire that gentle strength within.
God will come and say to you:
“I want to enter this living temple that you are.”
Prepare yourself for that situation.
Remove the impurities
and you will find that
he who wants to know reality is himself the source of reality.

Excerpt: ~ Living with the Himalayan Masters ~