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...