GURUDEV ... 4
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 road to 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 manifest his own divinity and make his spiritual progress faster.
There must be great purity and perseverance in the pupil. Chanting the holy mantra will help manifest these traits. The preceptor must be an adept in spiritual realizations and must be utterly holy and devoid of the desire of gain. His must be 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 and the shishya (disciple), a bond eternal and undying, selfless and sublime that defies human description and can only be called ethereal, divine.
Jai Gurudev ! Jai Ramakrishna !
Written by Sugata Bose
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 road to 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 manifest his own divinity and make his spiritual progress faster.
There must be great purity and perseverance in the pupil. Chanting the holy mantra will help manifest these traits. The preceptor must be an adept in spiritual realizations and must be utterly holy and devoid of the desire of gain. His must be 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 and the shishya (disciple), a bond eternal and undying, selfless and sublime that defies human description and can only be called ethereal, divine.
Jai Gurudev ! Jai Ramakrishna !
Written by Sugata Bose
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