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The guru and the

chela: in a divine

embrace

IWONDER how a devotee, who is but a drop in the ocean of
Guruji’s being, can express her feelings about Guruji. However, I
will try to articulate what the guru’s grace has meant for me.

When we meet the guru, he turns us godward. During this journey
of the soul towards God, the guru submerges us and exalts us in his
love—as disciples who have surrendered to him know. In the guru’s
divine earthly form, the disciples find the mother’s love, the father’s
guidance and the brother’s protection. One finds all these forms of
love as a distilled essence in the Satguru.

Guruji is God on earth and he is showing us the way to him with
the light of knowledge. To shepherd his disciples on the right way,
the guru has to occasionally be harsh on them. He is like the potter,
one of his hands hammering the pot (that is, the disciple) into shape;
the other supporting it from the inside. Only the guru can do this
because he wants the highest for his disciples. Yet his heart is full of
compassion, mercy and grace for disciples.

Indeed if one wants to have darshan of God within one’s heart,
if one wants to be enlightened, then one has to earnestly seek the
presence of those mahapurushs who have attained the parabhakti
(supreme devotion) of the Lord. Only the seeker or disciple who

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