Significance of Guru's Grace

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Question: What is the significance of Guru's grace in the attainment

of liberation?

 

Sri Ramana Maharshi: Liberation is not anywhere outside you. It is

only within. If a man is anxious for deliverance, the internal Guru

pulls him in and the external Guru pushes him into the Self. This is

the grace of the Guru.

 

Question: Some people reported you to have said that there was no

need for a Guru. Others gave the opposite report. What does Maharshi

say?

 

Sri Ramana Maharshi: I have never said that there is no need for a

Guru.

 

Questioner: Sri Aurobindo and others refer to you as having had no

Guru.

 

Sri Ramana Maharshi: It all depends on what you call a Guru. He need

not be in a human form. Dattatreya had twenty-four Gurus including

the five elements- earth, water, etc. Every object in this world was

his Guru.

 

The Guru is absolutely necessary. The Upanishads say that none but a

Guru can take a man out of the jungle of intellect and sense

perceptions. So there must be a Guru.

 

Hari Aum !!!