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Guru Disciple Relationship

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The 24th day of July is an important day for disciples everywhere, especially in India. On this auspicious day, disciples in the country will celebrate Guru Purnima and express gratitude to their gurus who are alive and also. Who have attained nirvana and left their body.

An often--asked question is: "Does a guru who is no longer his physical body help his disciples on their spiritual journey and evolvement in consciousness?"  There is always a big debate on this subject—and the answer to this question is both yes and no. Even after his departure from this world, a guru/is always available to a disciple, provided he is a genuine disciple and the guru is a real guru. A disciple who has full faith benefits the most.

Basically, it all depends on the receptivity and Understanding of the disciple and his love and devotion to the mentor. If the disciple is a student just interested  In  collecting   informative knowledge and enhancing his  Ego, he will not be able to make any headway—and in  The  process will not be able to receive much help from  The teacher.

his is ego will function as a barrier between him and his  guru it  is only when the disciple is able to surrender his  ego, that he become receptive to the inner treasures of  enlightenment a guru has to offer.

Guru is originally an eastern phenomenon. Osho explains: "There is no word in English to translate the word guru because the relationship between guru and disciple is basically eastern. No such relationship has ever existed in western culture and tradition, so no one in the West can understand what a true guru is. At the mosy they can understand what a teacher is."

A guru becomes a guru only after he has attained self- realisation and enlightenment. Before that he may just be a teacher but not a guru. The guru makes the disciple what he himself is.

A guru transforms his disciple with his presence. The guru's presence works even in silence. And when the guru disappears physically, he becomes even more available because, there is no physical barrier—his 'un embodied' consciousness becomes available to the disciple in his meditation.       

 In one of his discourses, Osho assured his disciples "So remember, when I am gone, you are not going to lone anything. Perhaps you may gain something of which you are absolutely unaware. Right now I am available to you only embodied, imprisoned in a certain shape and form. When I am gone, where can I go? I will be here in the winds, in the ocean; and if you have loved me, if you have trusted me, you will feel me in a thousand and one waya, In your silent moments, you will suddenly feel my presence. Once I am unembodied, my consciousness iu universal. Right now you have to come to me."

Ten Gurus of Sikhs

1. Guru Nanak (1469-1538)

2. Guru Angad (1538-1552)

3. Guru Amardas (1552-1574)

4. Guru Ramdas (1575-1581)5. 

5. Guru Arjun (1581-1606)

6. Guru Hargobind (1606-1644)

7. Guru Har Rai (1644-1661)

8. Guru Harkrishan (1661-1664)

9. Guru Teg Bahadur (1664-1675)

10. Guru Gobind Singh (1675-1708)


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