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Vedanta am 8. Juli 2017, 22:43 Uhr
Guru Purnima
Reverence day of all gurus
Babaji Maharaja once illustrated in a lecture the extreme rarity and thus our unparalleled good fortune being blessed with a human body (as recalled from my memory):
Imagine a flower garland floating on the ocean. At the bottom of the ocean there lives a special turtle. Every 100 years, that turtle is only briefly surfacing. The likelihood that the turtle's head is surfacing within the flower garland is extremely low. And yet this chance is much higher than the chance a living being is obtaining this precious human body. However, the chances of eventually meeting a Guru are even less.

And here a direct statement by Babaji Maharaja as published in an article from 2014 at http://www.jiva.org/do-we-need-a-guru/, and reproduced below with kind permission of Malati ji:
If you want to follow bhakti
then guru is a must.
Bhakti comes by the grace of guru
and not independently.
There are so many scriptural statements for that.
Without guru
one cannot even understand bhakti
because bhakti is not a material thing.
You can follow Varanashrama without guru
but not bhakti.
Guru Purnima
Reverence day of all gurus
Babaji Maharaja once illustrated in a lecture the extreme rarity and thus our unparalleled good fortune being blessed with a human body (as recalled from my memory):
Imagine a flower garland floating on the ocean. At the bottom of the ocean there lives a special turtle. Every 100 years, that turtle is only briefly surfacing. The likelihood that the turtle's head is surfacing within the flower garland is extremely low. And yet this chance is much higher than the chance a living being is obtaining this precious human body. However, the chances of eventually meeting a Guru are even less.

And here a direct statement by Babaji Maharaja as published in an article from 2014 at http://www.jiva.org/do-we-need-a-guru/, and reproduced below with kind permission of Malati ji:
If you want to follow bhakti
then guru is a must.
Bhakti comes by the grace of guru
and not independently.
There are so many scriptural statements for that.
Without guru
one cannot even understand bhakti
because bhakti is not a material thing.
You can follow Varanashrama without guru
but not bhakti.