GURU AND DISCIPLE

[Ms Tercy Lonan]

GURU AND DISCIPLE
Guru-Kripa is a wonderful mysterious factor that will enable the aspirants to seek and to
attain the summum bonum of life—that is Self-realisation or the vision of God, or Moksha. Whether
the disciple is deserving or undeserving, Guru-Kripa sets aside all normal laws that operate in the
spiritual plane and takes one to the transcendental Bliss.
There is absolutely not the least bit of exaggeration in the statement and also in the fact that
the Guru is always gracious. But then Guru-Kripa has not only to be bestowed, not only to be given
but it has also to be received. In receiving it, we immortalise and divinise ourselves.
There must be joy in obedience to the Guru and there should be a real craving in the spirit
that “I should obey.” To be a disciple you should obey even in dream. Day and night our Sadhana
should be to cultivate this attitude of obedience to perfection. This is the external part of Sadhana.
To the disciple, the nature of the Guru is not human. We should be completely blind to the
human side of the Guru and we should be conscious only of the divinity that he is. Then alone will
we be able to partake of his Kripa which will transform us from the lower human into the
transcendental divine. Our relationship with the Guru is purely divine, purely spiritual.
Similarly we have first of all to develop in us the consciousness that we are immortal beings
and that we are in essence Satchidananda. Then we can demand that Satchidananda-Consciousness
from Guru and the Guru will be able to give that to us.
Patience and humility in the spiritual realm may have to extend over a period of decades.
We have to wait like a dog at the door-step of the Guru for a whole lifetime, if need be. There is no
loss here. For the goal is immortal life and freedom.
The best thing is to humbly leave everything to the Guru. “I do not know whether I am a
disciple or not. Therefore, O Ocean of Mercy and Compassion, pray, make me a proper disciple.

Generate in me that Mumukshutva which makes me a disciple and give me the spirit of willing
obedience. Help me in trying to follow thy instructions. Help me in trying to mould myself upon the
pattern set-up by thee”—this must be our constant prayer. And, by this alone shall we be able to
draw the Kripa of our Guru and make our life fruitful. And the perfect way of praying is in obeying
and in trying our best to be real disciples.