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Recieved: 1999/11/23 17:03
Subject: [K-list] More on Guruism & Sai Baba
From: Mhortling
On 1999/11/23 17:03, Mhortling posted thus to the K-list:
Hi k-list,
Another story about the sometimes weird and unfathomable ways of the universe:
Some time back, during a spell of intensified kundalini-torture, I set out
to a specific bookstore (this was before the age of Amazon) to see if I
could find some desperately needed information about some aspects of k.
Living in Brussels at the time, the chances of finding what I wanted were
relatively slim, kundalini isn't really an issue for most of the bureaucrats
& businessmen there.
So, I entered the bookstore and of course my eyes caught "The One Right Book
Sitting On The Shelf Just Waiting For Me". This book happened to be
"Kundalini and the Third Eye" by an Indian gentleman called B.S Goel. It
describes in vivid detail how the author went through the different stages of
the k-process and I got the providential information and consolation I was
looking for.
Anyway, the author of the book finds out that Sai Baba is his guru during the
course of his kundalini journey and also describes several "inner" encounters
with the guru.
I myself have always felt the dilemma of being extremely sceptical about most
gurus, since they usually wind up screwing (literally & metaphorically) their
devotees and students but on the other hand intuitively sensing the "truth"
in what they (at least some of them) proclaim . As for Sai Baba, I never had
any attraction or connection to him whatsoever. To my utmost surprise then,
I also began to have inner "encounters" with him. Just as was described in
the book, I for instance also had the experience of him sitting in the ajna
chakra region and then enveloping and surrounding me until I felt as if I was
beginning to dissolve. I could feel a strong throbbing in the forehead and
little streams of energy were shooting up my spine.
This definitely wasn't a trick of the imagination but I also completely
refused to believe that somehow a specific guru had somehow suddenly entered
my life just by a casual contact through a book. I was somewhat confirmed in
my scepticism when I heard of other people having exactly the same
experiences but with different gurus according to which spiritual group they
happened to belong to. Mystically inclined christian people would maybe see
Jesus in the third eye region and so on.
So what's really going on then when we have visions of gurus or are
mysteriously led to just the books and encounters and physical teachers we
need for our spiritual evolution at that moment? I think the answer can be
found in what is called "gurutattwa" or guru-principle. If we assume the
universe and life are intelligent (most kundalini-people probably do) and
there is an evolutionary mechanism at work, then the underlying cosmic
intelligence which flows through all things and beings uses specific people,
situations, teachings etc. in order to provide the spiritually evolving
person with exactly what is needed. Subconsciously the persons spiritual
homing-device is also attuned to the situation by the shakti and so we wind
up at exactly at the right time & right place to meet the right person, find
the right book etc.
So, the guru is not really a person at all, but the evolutionary principle
itself. As such it's more or less active in everybody and this is where the
concept of "inner guru" comes from. It's not really an outer guru that
somehow splits of part of himself and suddenly enters the consciosness of the
student in order to teach him/her about all that cosmic stuff. It's the
evolutionary mechanism (fuelled by k. of course...) that takes on the shape
of whatever vehicle the persons mind happens to associate spiritual guidance
with at that moment in time. That would explain why I as a relatively
guru-proof person suddenly had these Sai Baba experiences after having dwelt
on a book prominently featuring him as a guru.
(And again, I'm absolutely sure imagination wasn't involved and there was no
personal interest in being invaded by any guru whatsover - at that time I
would much rather have had the whole kundalini-syndrome go away and leave me
alone)
The actual physical persons that are given the label "guru" by themselves or
others are just that - still very much physical persons with shortcomings and
occasional nasty characteristics -
And the divine part in the "guruperson" is the same that's divine in all of
us...
Does this make sense ?
Michael
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