Bloque I. Estado de la cuestión y comentario crítico de fuentes fuentes
1. Estado de la cuestión
1.4. Historiografía sobre la Vega de Granada
Is it necessary to have a Guru? Theoretically, no. Practically, yes! Our present era is one in which we are so sunk in the apparency and delusion, that superhuman means are needed.
Should we have a Guru? Definitely yes. Can we find one? Definitely yes. When the pupil is ready, the Teacher appears! If you have not found your Guru, just expect and know that you have contacted Him and you cannot but experience Him!
How can weknow arealGuru orMaster? How can wetellthedegreeofone’srealization? A fully-realized Being has an inner peace that cannot be disturbed. He is completely selfless and His every act is for others only. He is equal-minded toward all. He is desireless. He is fearless. He is Love that is all givingness. He expects nothing from anyone. His every moment is oneness with God.
To thedegreethatonehasalltheabovequalities,isthedegreeofone’srealization.
Here are some other thoughts on Gurus and Masters for you to reflect on. As ususal, allow them.
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Getting a Guru we garner the greatest good and get our godly goal.
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Although wedon’tseeit,theGreatOneswork moreand morewith usasthingsgetworsein the world.Don’tloseyourhead.Keep yourselfopen to them and you willbesafely led through.
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On the stage of Earth a Realized One play-acts a character as a human and knows Himself as divine.
He sees no contradiction between human and divine. He merely sees the world as in Him rather than external to Him. The unrealized one sees the world as external.
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It is hard to judge a Master by His behavior because He is free to be any way He wants to be. He can even chooseto behuman.Thetop statedoesn’texcludethelimited states.Ittakesthem in,too, without being touched by them.
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To the degree we have reservations about the Master or Teacher, to that degree we cut off His help.
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Ifone’sego feelsitcan dominatetheteacher,theteacherhasno chanceofhelping.
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When the pupil is ready, the Teacher must necessarily appear.
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When a Master in this world looks around, He sees His body and He sees all bodies around Him, butHeknowsthatevery body isHisSelf— that’sthedifference.Heseesevery body asmuch His body as His own.
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Justpointofview — that’stheonly differencebetween aMasterand anon-master.
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For a fully-realized Being, His outer activity does not disturb or effect His consciousness. Likewise thoughts do not disturb His consciousness.
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I think the hard thing for disciples of a Master (in physical body) to see is that the Master is in the world and not of it, that His body is the least part of Him.
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You are always pointed in the Direction when you are with the Wise.
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You think a Master in a physical body is more effective because you are unable to see Him in His finer body and therefore think He is not with you.
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The greatest of all aids is a living Teacher who has realized. Why? Because, although we all potentially have infinite power, the more we realize, the more we can exert this power. When a living Teacher, who has realized something, is trying to convey that to another one, He puts all His power behind what He is saying to help the other one realize it. He sees the other one as a limitless being, gives him and inward lift, points and sets him up to receive that which is being said, and uses the power emanated to effect the realization.
So, the greatest of all aids is a Teacher who has realized what He is saying. The next greatest aid would bereading Hiswords.There’sadefiniteimportto Hiswritten words.That’swhy Isay thatwe should read only fully-realized Masters. Everything that They have in writing is intended and
calculated to give the reader a realization. The written word carries the original import of the One who said it.
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As the behavior in life, the very best behavior is imitating that of a realized Being, because that is conduciveto giving you Hisrealization.When you’reacting itout,itpointsyou in thedirection of seeing thatwhich you’reacting out.
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Stay with your Master and be with your Master all the time by constant thought of Him and by constant reading of His words, as though He is talking directly to you.
TheMastersareliving to giveusrealization.Butifyou don’tacceptthis,Theirlovedoesnotallow Them to impose Themselves on you.
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All the Masters are at every moment helping us to see who and what we are.
* * * A savior is a servant who serves.
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A Master’sbehavioriscompletely selfless.Thereisatotalself-abnegation in aMaster.
* * * A Master feels like a servant.
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A Master does not interfere with the lives and ways and wishes of others.
* * * Masters seldom give advice. They give principle.
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It’snotthatMastersmind theworld — it’sthattheworld mindsthem thatcausesthem to withdraw.
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There’sno realized Teacherwho wouldn’twantyou to listen to allotherMasters.They wantyou to listen to any realized Being,becauseThey allseeThemselvesasthesame.ButThey don’twantyou to listen to anyone less than a realized Being.
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All Masters are exactly the same Self with different names.
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When you can acceptevery MasterasyourMaster,that’sgood.Then,when you can acceptevery person on thestreetasamaster,you’realmostthere.
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Every fully-realized Being that comes into the world, in order to come in, must assume some desire and karma.Ifyou don’thavesomedesireyou cannotstay.
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Masters will go through life with a weak or sick body, all the time maintaining their peace and equanimity. They welcome it because They use it as a constant reminder that They are not the body.
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Foronewho’sin abody,it’snigh onto impossibleto look on aMasterasnotabody.
* * * Christ is against nothing. Love is all-accepting.
* * * Mastersneverreject— they only accept.
* * * A Realized Onedoesn’tenjoy bliss,Heisbliss.
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TheGuru helpssetthebackground forrealizations— thepeace.
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A Master is a help in that He points us in the right direction and reminds us of the direction when we want to be reminded.
* * * Reading Their words is association with the Sages.
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A fully-realized Being is inactive in his own consciousness. To others, He appears active. He looks at His Self and others look at His body.
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It takes a Master to understand the behavior of a Master. If you could understand His behavior, you would be like Him.
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Any time you get totally absorbed in any saying of a Master, you make contact with that Master.
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There are no limitations to a Master. He can be one body; He can be a thousand bodies. A Master can actually have a thousand bodies and talk through the thousand bodies at one time to a thousand people, a thousand different people. There are no limitations on a Master.
* * * Masters are a 100% correct!
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Masters, isolated, are doing far more good for the world than presidents and kings are.
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A Realized One, being unlimited, may or may not use the mind.
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When westarton thepath,westartwith much confusion.Wedon’trecognizethatwhatisoutthere is only that which we have set up. The Teacher we look up to is in our consciousness and only there.
However, though, when we look up to a Teacher, we humble our ego, our ego being the only thing that prevents us from seeing the Truth. Looking up to a Master puts our ego into the background and we take our direction from someone who knows.
Now, the outside Master or Teacher will always point us inwardly to the Teacher of all teachers, our very own Self.Thisdoesn’tbecomeapparentatfirst.When weallow theTeacheroutthereto become successful enough, He shows us that the Teacher has always been right within us, that the Teacher has alwaysbeen ourrealSelf.So that,in theend,there’sonly oneTeacher,theTeacherwithin,yourSelf.
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When you’removing in theDirection,every Guru and Masterissupporting you,yes,every oneof Them.
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If your mind is on a fully-realized Master, He works to pull you over.
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Theplacewheresaintsareisrightwhere“Iam.”So when you find outwhatyou are,you’llseethe
“saintscomemarching in.”
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Read the words of a Master. Better, imagine His saying them to you. Best, hear Him saying them to you as you read them!
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Truth is Truth and all Masters speak identically. It appears different because They tailor it to suit the hearer.
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The Teacher is only as effective as is His conviction that the other one is a Master.
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When you know your Self, you know everything. A Master knows far more about every field than the top world authority in that field.
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When an individualbecomesaMaster,Heoperatesby intuition.Hedoesn’tneed to think.
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Just one Master could help every single one of the nearly four billion people on this earth at one and the same time because Masters are unlimited and omnipresent.
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What is night to all humans is a day to the Realized. What is day to all humans is night to the Realized.Whatthehuman seestheRealized doesn’tsee.
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To the Realized One the world may be likened to a moving picture on a screen. He sees the
changeless screen as the substratum of the action. The unrealized man takes the moving pictures to be real, and if he would investigate by grabbing hold of the moving pictures, he would discover the truth—thatitisjustachangelessscreen.Grab hold ofyourSelfand discoverthechangeless substratum of the world!
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A Master sees nothing but the one Self which others chop up into millions of parts.
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Since Masters are Beingness They can never not be. But Their Beingness is other than what you attribute to Them. Beingness has no body or form. Beingness is unlimited. Form is limited to the form.
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A Master has equal-mindedness toward all beings (even animals and insects).
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When one is around a Guru, if one gets quiet and digs for Truth, whatever one is aiming for, he will get through the assist of the Guru. He gets it through the silent teachings, which are the very highest of all teachings. This can also be done from afar!
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In theend theteaching hasto bein silencebecauseit’san experiencing thing;it’snotaverbalthing.
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A MasterseesusasHimself,asHisvery own Self.Thereareno othersto aMaster.There’sjust one infinite Being. This helps us to see what He sees.
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You can meet the Masters in body when you can accept meeting Them just as much as you can accept meeting me.
* * * You cannot invoke a Master without His coming in.
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“Your t hought f or c e e i t he r he l ps or hur t s t he wor l d’ s s pi r i t ual pr ogr e s s and i s c ons e que nt l y hur t i ng or he l pi ng y our s e l f . ”
Lester Levenson
Session 18
HELPING OTHERS