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and risk. If you do not maintain this awareness, you will be
doomed. If you want to be a guru, you must get a master’s key
from a Gnani Purush. Then only will you be able to help others.
Otherwise it is a state that will intoxicate you heavily. The position
of a guru carries great responsibility.
Once a few worldly gurus came to visit me and asked
me, ‘Is it not necessary for people to have a guru?’ I told them
that only true gurus are helpful. Otherwise guru means heavy –
the heavy one will sink and take others down along with him.
I am the humblest of the humble in worldly dealings and highest
of the high in internal spiritual world. I would never succumb to
the role of a worldly guru; those who assume superiority over
others. Realize that when you become humble in the worldly
life, then in the spiritual life you become elevated. Otherwise, if
as a guru you do not have humility, you will drown yourself and
others along with you.
Agam (mysterious, that which can never be understood)
Gnan is gnan that has gone beyond everyone’s comprehension.
Agam is that which one can never gain insight to. The Gnan I
have given you is agam gnan. People have the knowledge of
nigam gnan (informative, worldly, relative knowledge) but not of
agam (the Self – realization which is beyond expression of
words). But if the guru himself is filled with the wrong knowledge,
if he mistakes the north for the south, what can be expected of
him?
Shushka gnan (wordy or verbal knowledge) is knowledge,
which does not produce any results. It is like a tree that bears
flowers but no fruits. The current time is so strange; there is
fruitless gnan everywhere you look.
Worldly Interaction Of Akram Path And Kramic Path
In the Kramic, the traditional path to enlightenment, the