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The identification of Real Guru:

To preach and to become a real Guru in this world there are three requirements.

1) You should discover a better truth in the scriptures.

2) Due to lack of knowledge of your discovery, people must be suffering already.

3) People should get benefit on knowing your discovery.

If these three points are satisfied preaching is meaningful and such a preacher is useful Guru (Satguru). If you can say, “Here is a new method to get rid of the headache without a tablet,” you can be a Satguru and your discovery needs propagation. Such real preachers are Sankara, Ramanuja, Madhva, Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Mahavir, Vivekananda, Saibaba etc.

The second type of Guru is useless Guru who preaches, “Headache disappears if you take the medicine”. Everyone knows this. He preaches whatever is already present in books. He is wasting his time and energy. He is only a teacher but not a preacher.

The third type of Guru is harmful Guru who preaches, “If you swallow the poison headache will disappear”. He harms the people. He does not know even the bookish knowledge. He spreads his ignorance.

God will punish a harmful Guru. God does not punish a useless Guru, but he is wasting his time and energy just to satisfy his itch to become the Guru. Instead of wasting his lifetime like this, let him join the service to propagate the knowledge of the Lord, who came in human form (Satguru). But, jealousy and egoism hinder him to do so. He wants to become Sankaracharya and get his fame. He does not want to become a disciple of Sankaracharya who is a human being like him. He did not discover any theory like Sankaracharya but he wants to get the fame of Sankaracharya. His egoism does not allow him to become the disciple of Sankaracharya. He is very jealous at the fame of Sankaracharya. He wears the dress of Sankaracharya, and shaves his head similarly. He teaches the same theory of Sankaracharya. Then he is only a disciple of Sankaracharya but not the original Sankaracharya.

At lotus feet of Datta Swamiji

surya

www.universal-spirituality.org

 

radha_sharma_99 <no_reply> wrote:

Hi all,

 

There is a question in every beginners mind- should she/he get a Guru or

not? The scriptures all say that you have to have a Guru, but its not

so simple.

As such, what should a beginner in Sadhna do? Books can only teach you

so much. A good guru might guide you, but many modern gurus stroke the

ego of the student, and the student does the same. This allows them

both to pretend they are "spiritual" while continuing with their

normal materialisitc lives.

 

How can a beginner know she/he hasnt fallen in this trap?

 

 

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