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understanding of true knowledge and moral principles, there is neither a guru nor the true seeker.
Sant Tulsidas says:
The true teacher is the one who gives knowledge without ignorance, who speaks about light without darkness, and about the formless God without the God with forms. That teacher I deem as being true.
Who is worthy to be called a true or accomplished teacher? The true teacher is the one who has transcended the realm of ignorance and darkness and is established in the realm of knowledge and Light. The true teacher having gone beyond the material realm of forms is established in the formless state of the Infinite (the Divine). The accomplished spiritual teacher, who shows the path to experiencing the Reality, does so, only after testing this knowledge on the touchstone of his/her own personal experience. The knowledge of a true spiritual teacher is not simply based on intellectual knowledge, but also in personal experience.
Sant Kabir Sahab emphatically asserts:
You speak what is written down [intellectual knowledge), and I speak from what I have seen [inner experience]
Therefore, we need a spiritual guru who will not only be a knowledgeable teacher, but will also be morally sound and
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