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of matter. You have shed all the matter, emotions and desires, conflict between likes and dislikes, from your consciousness. Duality ends and unity is experienced. What remains is pure consciousness, and that pure consciousness is the pure state of perfection. Now we see that this state of perfection is the aim of all evolution, it is enlightenment or the path for enlightened beings.
There is an example which the teachers give about the raw diamond. If you put a piece of raw diamond beside a piece of stone, you would not be able to distinguish between the two. If a jeweler comes and breaks the piece of diamond precisely, then from the broken piece you could see some sparks of light. If he removes all the coverings and polishes the diamond, then the radiance of the diamond shines out.
A diamond in a raw state is the same substance as the piece of shining stone. The same thing is true of our consciousness. One's consciousness is like a raw stone-by polishing we are bringing out its hidden radiance. You do not depend on anything outside yourself. The radiance is already in you.
What is a Guru?
Then why do we need any help? Why do we need a teacher or guru? Why do we need books? Let us see the definition of a teacher. Gu means ignorance and ru means remover. He who removes the darkness of ignorance is called a guru. A guru removes, not gives. If you have something covered, he removes that which
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