Religious Problem in India

Author(s): Annie Besant
Publisher: Theosophist Office Adyar

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THE RELIGIOUS PROBLEM IN INDIA
O Nānak! know that to be the ture Guru who unites (thee) with all, my dear.
[Gurn i. Shri Rāg.]
Every day a hundred times would (1) sacrifice
(myself) unto (my) own Guru; Who transformed me into God, and it did not take him long to do so.
[Guru i. Vara Asā.]
If a hundred moons and a thousand suns were to rise, And there were so much light, without Guru there would be (still) awful darkness.
(Gnrn ii. Āsavara.]
Blessed be my true Guru, knower of Hari, Who showed us friend and foe equal in our sight.
[Guru iv. Vara Vadhans.]
Gurudeva is mother, Gurudeva is father, Guru
deva is the Supreme Lord ; Gurndeva is friend, destroyer of ignorance, Guru
deva is relative and real brother ; Gurudeva is the river and teacher of Hari's name; Gurudeva has realised the mantra ; Gurudeva is the embodiment of peace, truth
and culightenment; Gundeva's touch is higher
than that of the philosoplier's stone. Gurudeva is the Tirtha (place of pilgrimage), the
tank of nectar (immortality), there is nothing beyond immersion m Guru's knowledge.