I like the understanding that guru is more a function than a person. There are many Realized people, but very few guru's. The two people that I have encountered that have functioned as satgurus are Maharishi and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Both radiate (or in one case radiated!) a palpable Divine transcendent quality/energy. Sometimes it is very, very strong and at other times it is less, but always there. Several Realized people I have met don't radiate like this. You can experience it "inside" them through their eyes, but they don't enliven that divine in others. That's why it seems that guru is a siddhi or a particular shakti of the absolute. --- gyselsvishnu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > A guru is a teacher on any subject. > A realised being is very hard to define.I would go > with some > definitions from the Bhagavad Gita, one is 'Shtita > prajna': one whose > intellect is stable or established beyond duality. > The other > is: 'seeing the Self in al beings and all beings in > the Self'. > > When a realised being teaches this atma vidya by > means of methods > coming from a genuine lineage, he is called a > satguru. > However, the job of a satguru is to open the > awareness of the disciple > to the inner teacher or the Divine within. > > In my tradition (Swami Rama -Swami Veda) guru is > more a function than > a distinct person. Every true guru 'channels' as it > were the guru > principle, the 'Teaching Spirit of the Universe, > variously called > Narayana or -in the Yoga Sutras Hiranyagarbha, the > 'Golden Womb'. > > This is my understanding but there are many other > approaches. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I just understood that this is the difference > between > > a Realized Being and a guru. What do people know > about > > this? Vaj? > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > _____________ > > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
