"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Service To Guru: Be As You Are

Sri Ramana Maharshi
3-1-1946 Afternoon

Another visitor asked, "Can one person create an urge for anything in another? Can a Guru transform a discipled as if by magic?"

B: What is your idea of a Guru? You think of him in human shape as a body of certain dimensions, colors etc. A disciple after enlightenment told him Guru, "I now realize you lived in my innermost heart as the one Reality in all my countless births and have now come before me in human shape and lifted this veil of ignorance. What can I do for you in return for such kindness?" And the Guru said, "You need not do anything. It is enough if you remain as you are in your real state." This is the truth about the Guru.

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