>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote:
>
> > I've been very fortunate in that in teachers who were not
> > appropriate, signs manifested indicating that.
>
> I feel the same about me: I have been fortunate. But there are no
> clear-cut test I would know or could apply.
>
> > > > I would be suspicious personally of any guru who did not
test his
> > > > students--but that's my own preference.
> > >
> > > So you would be suspicious of Ramana.
> >
> > I've been rather fortunate in that it's pretty apparent to me
when a
> > teacher is good for me and the recognition was very obvious.
Call it
> > divine grace if you want.
>
> I'll call it divine grace. We are led to the masters, which are
> according to our predisposition, to our personal ripeness and our
> inner sense of discrimination. And we are lured in by those who
appeal
> to our illusiory graving. All we can do is ask with that much of
> sincerity we can bring up in our spiritual quest.
>
> > It's impossible for me to say what I'd feel for Ramana, he's
dead.
>
> Right, and even with the greatest master, we have no choice.There
were
> other great masters around at the time SBS was still a seeker, he
> could have sought out Shirdi Sai Baba, but he was destined to meet
a
> rather unknown Krishnananda. Would he have gone to Shirdi, ther
would
> be no TM.
>
Call it divine grace or good fortune when finding a teacher, but I
found the practical process similar to deciding whether or not to
pet a dog I've never met. Very intuitive, nothing complicated.
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