Passage 9

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One without form. But unfortunately it is those with many qualities who are becom… … ; the disciples seem better than the gurus of today. The disciples are making sacrifices. … are amassing. That is why, in the world today, things have come to a state where one cannot tel… … or make out who is the guru and who the disciple. In man, too, a kind of innocen… … has been growing. Seeing an elder, one must go to him and take initiation into a mantra. … is this initiation into a mantra? Finding out your own nature is the true mantra. Your mantra i… … within you. You yourself are the embodiment of mantra, yantra and tantra. Your own breathing in and breathing out are your mantra. That itself is …haṃ. Sō....haṃ. That is the mantra. I am That, That is I. That is the mantra. Next, the yantra. What … the yantra? Your body is the yantra. And what is the tantra? Your heart is a tantra. When you yourself are this mantra, yantra and … , if you go to someone else for a mantra, how weak you are! … ignorant you are! For ignorance such as this, will Vijñāna come through teachings handed down from above? This is … impossible. Your guru and God are one. He alone is beyond the guṇas. The one without form is … alone. He alone removes ignorance and bestows Prajñāna.

But to take refuge in these petty others, to take what they say as your guru's teaching and so become … bound, is utter ignorance. They themselves are held fast in every bond; … can they release you from your bonds? How can a person full of many delusions root… … out your delusions? When he himself is begging, how is he to give food to your belly? So you need not search … for gurus. Make your feeling of the Ātma firm. Strive for the bliss of the Ātma. Develop the faith that I myself am … . That is the true teaching: ‘The very next moment you know the secret, the mind itself … ! is the guru, sirs!’ Once you recognise this truth, that very Manas vanishes. That is the true … . But for this guruship there is no such thing as a set time, a set place, a set rule. It is only for the man who is …maya that there is dawn, noon and night. For one who is Manomaya, all these are bonds. For one who is free of … , there is nothing. All is one. Such a state is gained only through faith in the Ātma.

Embodiments of Prema! We think that Guru Pūrṇimā means only worshipping gurus, only that much … . When this Guru Pūrṇimā comes round, the gurus get a great income. But in truth this is no income for … . It is bondage. True gurus do not want it. Only the gurus who are a torment look for … . The guru is one.