“Participant: “What kind of practise should we adapt to on the spiritual…”

Participant: “What kind of practise should we adapt to on the spiritual path if we don’t have any Guru?”

SPH: Okay, see the idea - let me be very honest, I always tell people in - in our Ashram, whenever people ask Me about this Guru and all these things I tell them - there is a beautiful example: if you allow the calf, it will go and be with the cow only for 10 minutes. But the calf will drink the milk and come out. The bee - fly, which is sitting on the cow 24 hours - it will drink only the blood. It is not being near a Guru’s physical presence - I don’t think that plays any major role in the seeking. It is the depth of seeking; that plays a major role. Ramakrishna very beautifully says, “Surrender to anything, surrender is important - not to what you surrender.” If you surrender even a stone can become God and guide you. That’s what happened in Ramakrishna’s life - it, just a black stone - 3 feet black stone; if you go and see this, it looks very funny. This 3 feet black stone showed this Ramakrishna the whole world.

The Kali Murti, if you go to Dakshineswar - it’s not more than 3 feet. She’s just standing with 4 leg and 3 feet black stone. But the stone can show the divine or the Cosmic experience to Ramakrishna. So, when you surrender even stone can become God. When that intense seeking is not there even if God comes in front you will ask for ID card. You will ask for ID card and now you are saying, “Oh, I am not having a Guru.” You think living around Me is such an easy joke? Ask them - they will tell you. It’s not a joke. You understand? Let the seeking become strong, if the seeking becomes strong, even a small stone can teach you - the life can teach you. Life you see, the prana which is flowing inside My body coming out as words - the same prana is flowing everywhere. It can straight away enter your body also and create those same strong teachings inside your heart.

Please understand, because I have become empty - empty, hollow bamboo - the air which is flowing inside Me coming out as a flute music. So the same depth if it can start happening in you - the air which flows inside your nose, can become a strong teaching or inspiration inside your heart. Without that intensity even if I tell something, even if I utter some word, after 2 days you will not even remember, “Oh, that young Swami came, first day brought out - okay He spoke something. I think He spoke well.” That’s all; people come and tell me usually, “You spoke well Swamiji.” I just catch that shirt and tell, “Tell me what I spoke.” “No, no, no, no, no, no - you spoke well - don’t ask the that and all.” It’s just a one more word - one more word, a courtesy or socially polite or just to get attention.

You can get attention in 2 ways: one by throwing stone and the other one praising. Both way can get an attention - a polite way of getting attention; asking for attention. That’s all. So, I don’t think the physical nearness is directly relevant than the intense seeking. The intense seeking is what I feel is needed and maybe I can use one more word: psychological revolution, a cognitive shift seen - processing the information which you receive and decision making. This cognition should completely have a shift - as and now any experience which you add to your being adds more and more fear or greed. Instead of that, any experience add to your being should become strength and awareness - leading you to more awareness. If this cognitive shift happens, if this psychological revolution happens - I think that is what is Guru; that is what I call Guru.

So, maybe you can work hard for that than being physically around the Master. If you prarabdha is to be physically around the Master - suddenly you will see, you will click with somebody; somebody, with somebody you will click. You won’t even have to think about it. People ask me, “Am I your Master?” I tell them, “As long as this question is there, forget about Me.” The moment is, "If I am your Master" - that question will just disappear and you know - you will see and the click happens. So the - till that click happens, don't bother. If that click does not happen also, don’t bother. Just go towards that psychological revolution. If needed you will have the click when it needed with whomever it needed. If not, you will become - you will achieve the truth as it is; there is no need to bother.