Perfect Genuine Guru

Disciple’s Question :

As you keep moving around,can you give me the details of a perfect genuine guru.Or at least give me some hints to test and recognise him.I don’t believe in this guru-lineage and hypocrisy and would rather remain without a guru than become a victim of this system.What are your views?Kindly explain some easy criteria to test him.

Gurudev’s Answer:

My dear,it is absolute correct.It is better to remain without a guru than become a victim of hypocrisy.But do keep up constant search .I will give you some hints to specifically look for in a genuine guru so as to combat deception.

1. There is complete harmony in what he says and what he does.
2. He is self educated and his knowledge does not stem from books but springs from the depth of life and mind.
3. He is paradigm of peace and mind ; a symbol of mental peace.
4. He is beyond the reach of temptations like those of wealth and honour ,dignity and fame.
5. He remains for long time in Samadhi.
6. He lives away from women and does not allow to meet women privately.
7. He is a man of utmost compassion.
8. He remains constantly detached from the world.Dispassion is his constant nature.
9. He is not affected by the nine gates of sense organs.

Having killed his desire , he remains absolved in the imperishable word.Such a man transcends the sphere of Maya (illusion) of three modes and remains established in the self and he is a great teacher for others as well.One should immediately believe in such a Guru.Complete faith and devotion would bring in Guru’s grace in your system automatically. Thereafter,whatever is taught by the grace and your practice accordingly with full devotion and commitment would bring in the results.You would then experience a power quite apart from your body is subject to fear ,hunger ,thirst,heat and cold,life and death and so on. The soul is beyond all this.When you would experience this state of external bliss,it would result in peace in all environments.This practice would bring in peace despite all turmoil around you.Without constant spiritual practice,one is a mere shell like pitcher without water.