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Light of Divinity

fell in love with him. And he taught them love, renunciation and
wisdom—the very virtues on which India stands.

There are no words to describe or evoke a mahapurush like Guruji.
For words cannot capture the Infinite. Like signposts, they can only
indicate the way and help the traveller along. They are merely, with
the blessings of Guruji, catalysts; they are not him. And therefore
they should be taken as tools and discarded once they have been
made use of.

He was known to all of us by a common noun that is perhaps
the most common in a land of faith—Guruji. Yet, this vatic word
contained a vast horde of meaning and energy. If a disciple ever
made so bold as to ask him what his name was, he would always say
that mahapurushs have no name.

And with this statement, he told us who he was—an ambassador
of God, the king of all the worlds, nay, him himself. For the Guru
is God. The Guru knows no one else but God; the Guru has no
separate identity from that of God.

It is now said that he attained mahasamadhi on 31 May 2007. And
we believe it because we had begun to know him as a body and a
personality. We had become attached to him.

But in the blink of an eye, his body was gone. He drew the
curtains on the role he chose to play. For he was an avatar, a descent
of divinity into flesh. He was Shiva, Nanak, and love incarnate. His
maya was powerful and, at its beguiling behest, we saw him as a
body and as a person. Yet, it was never so. He was and is Ekonkar.

And he remains. He remains as Our Holy Father and we remain
forever his children—errant it seems till we learn to listen to him as
India always has: patiently, fully.

It is said, and it is true, that by merely listening to the Guru one
becomes enlightened. Listen well then with these few pages, these
satsangs, to what Guruji has to say. It is his gift to his beloved
children. And it is his word to you.

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