THE GURU IS REALLY NECESSARY?

THE GURU IS REALLY NECESSARY? - by Huberto Rohden

 

 

 

The classical Yoga-Sutra considers the guru as a spiritual teacher and relative and provisional guide, supposed that the master has achieved a high degree of self-realization, so that he can act on his chela (disciple) with the power of his inner being and not just with the light of wisdom that he received, his external acts and what he says. What must occur between master and disciple is a kind of osmosis, whose action goes from the stronger element (master), to the less intense element (disciple) until saturation is due - that is, the "master of grace" involving and permeating the soul of the receptive disciple. And in this case when the disciple becomes receptive is that we can use the statement of the Bhagavad Gita that says: "when the disciple is ready, the master appears."

 

 

The purpose of the guru is not to take with him, indefinitely, the disciple, but to give him full autonomy and autocracy, so that one day the disciple can go his way with perfect clarity and absolute security, without the master. And then the external master became a internal master, inherent to the disciple. The greatest triumph of a true master is to become superfluous, because the master who never becomes superfluous did not fulfil his mission.

 

 

Certain misleading forms of yoga speak of bhakti that one must pay to the guru, as a god, however, there lies a big mistake because where the emotional element dominates, the reason succumbs.

 

 

True yoga, or mystics, is supreme rationality.

 

 

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