GURUS AND MASTERS - Keys to the Ultimate Freedom

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A Master is a fully - realized Being. A Guru (or Sat Guru) is a Master who has chosen to help others find their Freedom. God, Guru and Self are all one and the same. This becomes obvious when the illusion is gone and the Reality is known.

There is no greater aid than to have the guidance of a Master or Guru. To quote the greatest accepted authority on Monism of the East, Swami Shankara, No known comparison exists in the three worlds (physical, astral and causal) for a true Guru. If the philosopher's stone be assumed as truly such, it can only turn iron into gold but not another philosopher's stone. The venerated Teacher, on the other hand, creates equality with Himself in the disciple who takes refuge at His feet. The Guru, therefore, is peerless, nay, transcendental!

A Guru may be in a physical body, or an astral or causal body. The finer the body-form, the more readily He gets around.

Can everyone have a Guru in a physical body? No, because rare is the Guru who chooses the extremist of limited form, the physical body. There just arent enough of them to go around.

Can everyone have a Guru? Yes, if he will accept a Guru who has transcended the physical body. Having transcended the physical, the Guru can use His omnipresence and actually help everyone calling on Him.

Can we sense a Guru who is not in a physical form? Yes, everyone can, to the degree of his acceptance. If we are up to it, He can appear and talk with us in a physical body. If our acceptance is less, He can appear in an astral body and talk with us, If we have less acceptance than this, He may appear in a vision. Least of all, we may feel Him as a presence. However, He may come to us and to our aid in anyone of the foregoing manners. All we need to do is to demand it and then accept it when it comes.

Is it necessary to have a Guru? Theoretically, no. Practically, yes! Our present era is one in which we are so sunk in the apparency and delusion, that superhuman means are needed. Should we have a Guru? Definitely yes. Can we find one? Definitely yes. When the pupil is ready, the Teacher appeareth! If you have not found your Guru, just expect and know that you have contacted Him and you cannot but experience Him!

How can we know a real Guru or Master? How can we tell the degree of one I s realization? A fully- realized Being has an inner peace that cannot be disturbed. He is completely selfless and His every act is for others only. He is equal-minded toward all. He is desireless. He is fearless. He is Love that is all givingness. He expects nothing from anyone. His every moment is oneness with God. To the degree that one has all the above qualities, is the degree of one's realization.

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Getting a Guru we garner the greatest good and get our godly goal.

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Although we don't see it, the Great Ones work more and more with us as things get worse in the world. Don't lose your head. Keep yourself open to them and you will be safely led through.

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On the stage of earth a Realized One play- acts a character as a human and knows Himself as divine. He sees no contradiction between human and divine. He merely sees the world as in Him rather than external to Him. The unrealized one sees the world as external.

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It is hard to judge a Master by His behavior because He is free to be any way He wants to be. He can even choose to be human. The top state doesn't exclude the limited states. It takes them in, too, without being touched by them.

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To the degree we have reservations about the Master or Teacher, to that degree we cut off His help.

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If ones ego feels it can dominate the teacher, the teacher has no chance of helping.

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When the pupil is ready, the Teacher must necessarily appear.

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When a Master in this world looks around, He sees His body and He sees all bodies around Him, but He knows that every body is His Self, -that's the difference. He sees every body as much His body as His own.

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Just point of view, -that's the only difference between a Master and a non-master.

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For a fully-realized Being, His outer activity does not disturb or effect His consciousness. Likewise thoughts do not disturb His consciousness.

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I think the hard thing for disciples of a Master (in physical body) to see is that the Master is in the world and not of it, that His body is the least part of Him.

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You are always pointed in the Direction when you are with the Wise.

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You think a Master in a physical body is more effective because you are unable to see Him in His finer body and therefore think He is not with you.

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The greatest of all aids is a living Teacher who has realized. Why? Because, although we all potentially have infinite power, the more we realize, the more we can exert this power. When a living Teacher, who has realized something, is trying to convey that to another one, He puts all His power behind what He is saying to help the other one realize it. He sees the other one as a limitless being, gives him an inward lift, points and sets him up to receive that which is being said, and uses the power emanated to effect the realization.

So, the greatest of all aids is a Teacher who has realized what He is saying. The next greatest aid would be reading His words. There's a definite import to His written words. That's why I say that we should read only fully-realized Masters. Everything that They have in writing is intended and calculated to give the reader a realization. The written word carries the original import of the One who said it.

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As to behavior in life, the very best behavior is imitating that of a realized Being, because that is conducive to giving you His realization. When you're acting it out, it points you in the direction of seeing that which you're acting out.

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Stay with your Master and be with your Master all the time by constant thought of Him and by constant reading of His words, as though He is talking directly to you.

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The Masters are living to give us realization. But if you don't accept this, Their love does not allow Them to impose Themselves on you.

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All the Masters are at every moment helping us to see who and what we are.

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A savior is a servant who serves.

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A Master's behavior is completely selfless. There is a total self-abnegation in a Master.

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A master feels like a servant.

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A Master does not interfere with the lives and ways and wishes of others.

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Masters seldom give advice. They give principle.

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It's not that Masters mind the world, it's that the world minds them that causes them to withdraw.

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There's no realized Teacher who wouldn't want you to listen to all other Masters. They want you to listen to any realized Being, because They all see Themselves as the same. But They don't want you to listen to anyone less than a realized Being.

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All Masters are exactly the same Self with different names.

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When you can accept every Master as your Master, that's good. Then, when you can accept every person on the street as a master, you're almost there.

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Every fully-realized Being that comes into the world, in order to come in, must assume some desire and karma. If you don't have some desire you cannot stay.

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Masters will go through life with a weak or sick body, all the time maintaining their peace and equanimity. They welcome it because They use it as a constant reminder that They are not the body.

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For one who's in a body, it's nigh onto impossible to look on a Master as not a body.

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Christ is against nothing. Love is all-accepting.

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Masters never reject, They only accept.

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A Realized One doesn't enjoy bliss, He is bliss.

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The Guru helps set the background for realizations - the peace.

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A Master is a help in that He points us in the right direction and reminds us of the direction when we want to be reminded.

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Reading Their words is association with the Sages.

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A fully-realized Being is inactive in his own consciousness. To others, He appears active. He looks at His Self and other s look at His body.

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It takes a Master to understand the behavior of a Master, right? If you could understand His behavior, you would be like Him.

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Any time you get totally absorbed in any saying of a Master, you make contact with that Master.

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There are no limitations to a Master. He can be one body; He can be a thousand bodies. A Master can actually have a thousand bodies, and talk through the thousand bodies at one time to a thousand people, a thousand different people. There are no limitations on a Master.

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There is another thing you ought to be convinced of now, that the Masters are a 100% correct!

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Masters, isolated, are doing far more good for the world than presidents and kings are.

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A Realized One, being unlimited, may or may not use the mind.

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When we start on the path, we start with much confusion. We don't recognize that what is out there is only that which we have set up. The Teacher we look up to is in our consciousness and only there. However, when we look up to a Teacher, we humble our ego, our ego being the only thing that prevents us from seeing the Truth. Looking up to a Master puts our ego into the background and we take our direction from someone who knows.

Now the outside Master or Teacher will always point us inwardly to the Teacher of all teachers, our very own Self. This doesn't become apparent at first. When we allow the Teacher out there to become successful enough, He shows us that the Teacher has always been right within us, that the Teacher has always been our real Self. So that, in the end, there's only one Teacher, the Teacher within, your Self.

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When you're moving in the Direction, every Guru and Master is supporting you, yes, everyone of Them.

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If your mind is on a fully-realized Master. He works to pull you over.

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The place where saints are is right where I am. So when you find out what you are, you'll see the saints come marching in.

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Read the words of a Master. Better, imagine His saying them to you. Best, hear Him saying them to you as you read them!

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Truth is Truth and all Masters speak identically. It appears different because They tailor it to suit the hearer.

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The Teacher is only as effective as is His conviction that the other one is a Master.

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When you know your Self, you know everything. A Master knows far more about every field than the top world authority in that field.

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When an individual becomes a Master, He operates by intuition. He doesn't need to think.

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Just one Master could help every single one of the nearly four billion people on this earth at one and the same time because Masters are unlimited and omnipresent.

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What is night to all humans is day to the Realized. What is day to all humans is night to the Realized. What the human sees the Realized doesn't see.

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To the Realized One the world may be likened to a moving picture on a screen. He sees the changeless screen as the substratum of the action. The unrealized man takes the moving pictures to be real, and if he would investigate by grabbing hold of the moving pictures, he would discover the truth, - that it is just a changeless screen. Grab hold of your Self and discover the changeless substratum of the world!

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A Master sees nothing but the one Self which others chop up into millions of parts.

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Since Masters are Beingness, they can never not be. But Their Beingness is other than what you attribute to Them. Beingness has no body or form. Beingness is unlimited. Form is limited to the form.

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A Master has equal-mindedness toward all beings {even animals and insects}.

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When one is around a Guru, if one gets quiet and digs for Truth, whatever one is aiming for, he will get through the assist of the Guru. He gets it through the silent teachings, which are the very highest of all teachings. This can also be done from afar!

In the end the teaching has to be in silence because it is an experiencing thing; it's not a verbal thing.

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A Master sees us as Himself, as His very own Self. There are no others to a Master. There's just one infinite Being. This helps us to see what He sees.

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You can meet the Master s in body when you can accept meeting Them just as much as you can accept meeting me.

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You cannot invoke a Master without His coming in.

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