05-22-2007, 02:18 PM
Viren:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->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.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I disagree with you. Anybody that teaches me a thing or two is a guru to me. Gone are the days where one has to visit gurukulams, and work under the tutelage of the Guru and his wife. Things have evolved, and I don't consider it any little to solicit knowledge from people on the internet. After all I am going to use mull over them, apply filters and digest things.
If someone teaches me how to fix the faucet on my counter top, he becomes my guru on that subject. Someone teaches me how to change oil filters, plant a garden, find ways to get the cheapest air tickets on the internet etc he or she becomes a guru. Similar is on the subjects of religion, gods, spiritualism, hinduism etc.
I did not go knocking on my neighbor's door, the panditji(s) were already assembled in a community place called the discussion forums. I happen to be there, and sought answers. I understand I can't force them to answer, though.
As already stated I ask questions to inform/educate me and also to profess disagreements (i.e make a point). In what other way or form do you want me to set my pride down, than the way I have already said - I don't know. If this is not the most civil & polite way to ask things, then I better start my schooling from KG.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->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.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I disagree with you. Anybody that teaches me a thing or two is a guru to me. Gone are the days where one has to visit gurukulams, and work under the tutelage of the Guru and his wife. Things have evolved, and I don't consider it any little to solicit knowledge from people on the internet. After all I am going to use mull over them, apply filters and digest things.
If someone teaches me how to fix the faucet on my counter top, he becomes my guru on that subject. Someone teaches me how to change oil filters, plant a garden, find ways to get the cheapest air tickets on the internet etc he or she becomes a guru. Similar is on the subjects of religion, gods, spiritualism, hinduism etc.
I did not go knocking on my neighbor's door, the panditji(s) were already assembled in a community place called the discussion forums. I happen to be there, and sought answers. I understand I can't force them to answer, though.
As already stated I ask questions to inform/educate me and also to profess disagreements (i.e make a point). In what other way or form do you want me to set my pride down, than the way I have already said - I don't know. If this is not the most civil & polite way to ask things, then I better start my schooling from KG.