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guru-shishya alone can provide stability to the path of devout practice. You too are a great sadhaka, how is it that you have not identified a guru yet?" Then the Maharshi had cited the example of guru Dattatreya and said that he had twenty-four gurus. Guru Dattatreya had absorbed a lot from the substances prevalent in this universe. He had himself obtained something from the nature of these substances. Whether the sky, the river, the mountain or the wind; the inspiration drawn from all such substances had taken his saintly life to its pinnacle. He used to say that if we moved around in this world with our eyes open, there are springs of inspiration flowing everywhere. And Dattatreya had accepted all these as Guru.
Maharshiji has said : “I have abandoned home and come here because of the strong attraction towards Arunachal Mountain, and this mountain is my Guru. The many mysteries lying in Arunachal have provided me a strong inspiration. As such, what appears to you all as an inanimate mountain, is to me a living thing.” Brothers! The Maharshi immersed in such feelings has sung long praises of the Arunachal Mountain.
On hearing such things, a lay man gets confused. He cannot understand that something other than a living great man can also become a Guru. But this is the case of accomplished sages. The feeling of the Soul active in their heart, being out of this world, we cannot understand their discussions or speech. But in reality such sages are extremely humble. Why! One gets to see much more humility in such sages, than what an ordinary person is likely to acquire in his direct interaction with a great Sadguru. That is the wonderful eligibility in them!
Well, here we were trying to say what an Atmarthi jiva is in search of. Simply, none of the worldly discoveries entice him. Such a discovery might well turn out to be a cause of momentary happiness, but in effect leads to sorrow. Hence, let us make such a discovery, whose effect can go along with us for many births.
The Karma philosophy believes that the virtues and sins of jiva go along with him. Why! There were times when in some
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