The Pathless PathHis teaching

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  1. The Pathless Path
  2. The Goal of Human Life
  3. Turn to Reality
  4. The Change Must Be Within
  5. Religion is a Matter of Experience
  6. The Touch of Saints and Guru’s Grace
  7. The Divine Name as the Ladder
  8. Faith and Surrender
  9. Hints on Sadhana
  10. Meditation
  11. Samadhi
  12. After Reaching the Height
  13. The Attributes of Man Endowed with Cosmic Vision
  14. Inner Voice
  15. Jivanmukta
  16. Recapitulation
  17. The Path of God-Realisation
  18. One Universal God
  19. Conclusion of “Gita-Sandesh”

The Touch of Saints and Guru’s Grace

The grace of a saint who is accepted as a Guru is essential to the progress of a spiritual aspirant. To live and act in such a manner that the Guru is highly pleased with the disciple is a sure condition for the working of grace. A true aspirant seeks always to please his Guru by moulding his life in accordance with his teachings.

By a saint’s contact thousands are saved from the clutches of doubt, sorrow and death. He exerts a wonderful influence and creates in the hearts of ignorant men a consciousness of their inherent Divinity. By his very presence he rids the hearts of people of their base and unbridled passions.

The society of saints is the most effective means to awaken the heart to the consciousness of God. The aspirant should approach them in all humility and with an attitude to receive their enlightening influence. Saints are always sympathetic and gracious. They radiate Love, Peace and Joy, for they are the very embodiments of God on earth.

The presence of a saint works like a charm upon the mind. It is at once freed from impure thoughts and attains calmness and serenity. A new light and joy is experienced by the aspirant. He transcends time and space and becomes filled with a rare spiritual ecstasy.

The God-realised man is God Himself in human form. Ignorant souls cannot recognise divinity in the man in whom the Universal Spirit is realised and attained.

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