The classic Yoga-Sutra considers the guru as a master, but also, as a relative and provisional spiritual guide, supposed that this master has achieved a high degree of self-realization so that it can act on its disciple with the strength of its inner being, and not only with the light of the wisdom received its external acts and what it says. What should occur between master and disciple is a kind of osmosis, whose action goes from a more intense element (the master) to the less intense one (the disciple), until the happening of a proper saturation between both elements - that is, the “grace of the master” involving and penetrating the soul of the receptive disciple. And in this case, where the disciple becomes receptive is when can be used the Bhagavad-Gita's statement: “When the disciple is ready, the master comes into sight.”
The purpose of a guru's presence is not to take the disciple indefinitely but to give it full autonomy and autocracy so that one day the disciple can follow its path with perfect clarity and absolute security without the master. And then the external master became an inner master, inherent in the disciple. The greatest triumph of a true master is to become superfluous, for the master who never becomes superfluous has not fulfilled its mission.
Certain distorted forms of yoga speak of the intense devotion to be rendered to the guru as to a god. However, lies the great mistake in this, for where the emotive ingredient reigns, reason succumbs.
True yoga, or mystics, is supreme rationality.
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