True Guru <---HERE'S A GOOD CASE STUDY

[Guest guest]

Here's a case study:

 

A man in dire straits meets an Indian Guru who initiates him and gives

him a spiritual name. He then advises him to go stay with him in India.

The man gets to India only to find that his Guru is gone to stay in the

west. So he stays with the (senior) Guru bhai of his Guru who gives

shelter. The Gurubhai tells the man that he received letters from the

Guru that the man should stay with him to learn. So the Gurubhai

becomes the new Guru of the man and even reinitiates him. Many years

pass in this way.

 

Finally the man finds out that his original Guru is angry at the Guru

Bhai for stealing his disciple and lying about his letters. He

instructs the man to renounce the monkhood received from the Guru Bhai

and return as a brahmachari with the original name.

 

The man asks the Guru Bhai to let him go back to his real guru, but the

Guru Bhai becomes angry too. Seeing the two gurus fighting and calling

names the man decides to leave. First he returns to his original Guru,

who bad mouths his Guru Bhai. So the man decides that BOTH are his

guru, but he is disappointed in them both for fighting like mundane men

over a worthless little disciple.

 

Plus the man finds that life with the Guru Bhai was far more inspiring

and "paaka," while life with original Guru is an institutional night

mare of mixing men and women always chasing after money.

 

Q: Does this man have No Guru? Or Two Gurus? Or One Guru? Who would be

"True Guru" in the above example case?

 

Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.