Page 17 - Light of Divinity

A finger that points

to the moon

IMAGINE a towering mountain and a blemish-less mirror fused
into one. Imagine, if you can, that this mountain was made of
incandescent light. And imagine that you were put before this
mountain. Your breath frozen in your throat, you looked at it...

...this is what your first darshan of Guruji would be like. When
he wills this meeting to happen, he will penetrate into the core of
your being. You will be denuded of all pretension; your soul will be
exposed to his gaze. And when you see yourself in him, when you
glimpse your own lion-like divinity, you will truly be his disciple.

Do not imagine that this meeting will not happen. Do not imagine
that the Guru was made up of the body and has disappeared into the
void.

There are more darshans to come, a hundred thousand meetings
to happen, and a majestic promise to be fulfilled between Guruji and
his beloved disciples—the promise of love: that the Guru and the
disciple be united in the clasp of eternity.

We can keep our part of the promise by beginning to know
ourselves.

For the Satguru, our Guruji, is a mirror put up before our eyes so
that we can recognize ourselves. The Guru, as the word itself shows,
removes the darkness (gu) of ignorance with the light (ru) of wisdom.
In this nation’s sacred tradition, the Guru is put on a pedestal even
higher than that of God’s. He is seen as the sine qua non of the

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