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THE NEED OF A GURU.
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fingers, that we want something surer and higher and that we must become religious. In a few days that wave of feeling passes away and we are left stranded just where we were before! We are all of us often mistaking such impulses for real thirst after religion ; but as long as these momentary emotions are thus mistaken, that continuous, real, craving of the soul for religion will not come, and we cannot find the true transmitter of spirituality. So, whenever we are tempted to complain of our search after the Truth proving vain, instead of so complaining, our first duty ought to be to look into our own souls and find whether the craving in the heart is real. Then in the vast majority of cases, it would be discovered that we were not fit for receiving the Truth, that there was no real thirst for spirituality.
There are still greater dangers in regard to the transmitter, the guru. There are many, who, though immersed in ignorance,
