05-22-2007, 05:31 AM
SwamyG,
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->So here, I have you gurus right in front of me, and there is a possibility of an exchange; and you (in plural) want me to go elsewhere. But it also might be that this is one of the avenues that I am trying, and exhausting, and that my I am yet to meet my guru who will teach me. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I wouldn't recommend finding a guru online or even on this forum. Let me see if I can post a story I had read somewhere.
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Neighbour of a learned man went to this learned Pandit and said, "I long to learn spirtuality, would you come over to my house and talk to me about it?"
Pandit didn't commit himself since he realized that this neighbour was under delusion that mysticism can be transmitted to another by word of mouth.
Some days later the neighour was shouting from his house, "Panditji, I need your help to blow some fire in my chullaha, embers are dying"
Pandit responds, "Why of course, my breath is at your disposal, come over and you can take away as much as you can".
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Bodhi:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Quests of Nachiketa, Arjun, Maitreyi, Janak, Anand, and Sariputra are born out of their deeply thirsty hearts, after exhausting all other channels of fulfilment, coming defeated to the feet of their respective Gurus as the last resort of the quest.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I trust these noble souls shed their arrogance and pride as they set out in their quest.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->So here, I have you gurus right in front of me, and there is a possibility of an exchange; and you (in plural) want me to go elsewhere. But it also might be that this is one of the avenues that I am trying, and exhausting, and that my I am yet to meet my guru who will teach me. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I wouldn't recommend finding a guru online or even on this forum. Let me see if I can post a story I had read somewhere.
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Neighbour of a learned man went to this learned Pandit and said, "I long to learn spirtuality, would you come over to my house and talk to me about it?"
Pandit didn't commit himself since he realized that this neighbour was under delusion that mysticism can be transmitted to another by word of mouth.
Some days later the neighour was shouting from his house, "Panditji, I need your help to blow some fire in my chullaha, embers are dying"
Pandit responds, "Why of course, my breath is at your disposal, come over and you can take away as much as you can".
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Bodhi:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Quests of Nachiketa, Arjun, Maitreyi, Janak, Anand, and Sariputra are born out of their deeply thirsty hearts, after exhausting all other channels of fulfilment, coming defeated to the feet of their respective Gurus as the last resort of the quest.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I trust these noble souls shed their arrogance and pride as they set out in their quest.