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How is a Guru different from a teacher or a guide?

Guru is not a guide or teacher.

Guru: The key to success

Do you want to achieve the finality or supreme reality? If yes, then read on.  Let's do a small experiment. Go to a field or any open space. Mark any one spot as A, which is your start point. A kilometre away from it mark a point B, the destination you want to reach. Now start walking from A to B keeping your mind free of thoughts. The minute you get a thought take a turn. Every thought, a turn. Write to me how long it took for you to travel the distance. Yoga is the journey from A to B. A, is where you are, B is the finality. Guru is someone, who has already walked that path and has the experience of finality. So he is able to show you the path. But to walk it or to take turns or stop, is the choice of the sadhak. Traits of a Guru by Yogi Ashwini The key to success is the path of least resistance. The various desires, thoughts, sceneries, people and pleasures that one intercepts on the path, act as resistances, that prevent the sadhak from moving ahead. This i...

Guru Poornima

We all are divine beings going through our individual journeys in the manifested Creation, some of us choose the path of sadhana and make an effort to rise or evolve from one dimension to the other. The process requires continuous and dedicated practice, which culminates into yoga. And yoga begins and ends with the Guru. No shastra, no tapasaya, no mantra, no form or appearance, no God or japa is superior to the Guru. By performance of sadhana of Guru alone can one become a siddha in all the other modes of sadhana. As the path of yoga is one of experience and not of the intellect, it requires a force,  to take you through those experiences. No book, no lecture, or discourse, or any other means can give you those experiences, only a Guru can because a Guru is not a physical being. It is the result of the good karmas of all the previous lifetimes that the gate of a being's good fortune opens and he meets his Guru, who is the Guru of all, none other than Lord Shiva, the ulti...