Excerpt From Sw. Paramatmananda Road to Freedom

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Ammachi, GeorgeSon <leokomor wrote:

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Thanks Chitanand, Namaste,

 

"The disciple who wants to maintain his or her individuality cannot

at the same time merge with the Universal Mind."

 

"This should answer any questions that might have sprung up in the

reader's mind. Why does a real Guru sometimes act in an unreasonable,

contradictory or even crazy way? It is only to give the disciples the

chance to surrender their minds and thereby receive Divine Knowledge.

As long as the individual mind exists, the disciple cannot attain

Wisdom. The disciple who wants to maintain his or her individuality

cannot at the same time merge with the Universal Mind. Surrender and

obedience are necessary. Meditation, study and other spiritual

disciplines are easy when compared to the practice of surrender to

the Guru. Please remember that this is not one person surrendering to

another. Any Guru who truly deserves the title has attained oneness

with the transcendent Reality. He has merged his individuality in the

Universal Existence and has become an instrument of That.

Surrendering to him amounts to surrendering to God, merging in God

and becoming one with Him. Mother's strange actions and words must be

seen in this light."

 

"The disciple who wants to maintain his or her individuality cannot

at the same time merge with the Universal Mind."

 

Amma's Blessings,

amarnath