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GURU AND DIKSHA (INITIATION)

Yoga should be learnt from a Guru. And this is true all the more in the case of Tantra Yoga. It is the Guru who will recognise the class to which the aspirant belongs and prescribe suitable Sadhana. Nowadays aspirants have the dangerous and wrong notion of imagining that they are highly qualified to adopt the highest form of Yoga in the very beginning of their Sadhana. This is the reason for the early downfall of the majority of aspirants. This itself shows that he is not yet ready to take to Yoga. The real, qualified aspirant will be humble enough to approach a Guru, surrender himself to the Guru, serve the Guru and learn Yoga from the Guru.

The Guru is none other than the Supreme Divine Mother Herself, descended into the world in order to elevate the aspirant. Deify the Guru. Then only you will be really benefited. Serve him untiringly. He will, of his own accord, bestow the supreme blessing of Diksha upon you.

Diksha is the giving of the Mantra by the Guru. Initiation gives spiritual knowledge and destroys sin. As one lamp is lit at the flame of another, so the divine Sakti consisting of Mantra is communicated from Guru to the disciple. The disciple fasts, observes Brahmacharya and gets the Mantra from the Guru.

Initiation tears the veil of mystery and enables the disciple to grasp the hidden truth behind scriptural truths. These are generally veiled in mystic language. You cannot understand them by self-study. Self-study will only lead you to greater ignorance. The Guru only will give you, by Diksha, the right perspective in which to study the scriptures. He will flash his torch of Self-realisation on the truth which you will grasp immediately.