Initiation is an imperative in spiritual life. The Guru quickens the spirit of the disciple through the power he infuses at the time of initiation. He sets the disciple on the royal avenue of Truth. The disciple has only to follow the instructions of the Guru to the letter to progress fast along the spiritual path. He must have utmost reverence for the Guru knowing him to be none other than God-incarnate. The disciple must on no count have human ideas about his Guru but must regard him ever as one with his Chosen Ideal (Ishta Devata). Such reverence will help him manifest his own divinity and make his spiritual progress sweeter.
There must be great purity and perseverance in the disciple. Chanting the holy mantra will help manifest these traits. The Guru or the spiritual preceptor must be an adept in spiritual realizations and must be utterly holy and devoid of desire of gain from the disciple. His is a free gift of initiation for his disciple born out of compassion for the latter, a benediction, a selfless act of divine love that seeks no return.
Such then is the relation between the Guru (spiritual preceptor) and the shishya (disciple), a bond eternal and undying, selfless and divine that defies human description and can only be called love ethereal, sublime.
Jai Gurudev! Jai Sri Ramakrishna!
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