BODY LANGUAGE
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OF THE MASTER
For example, yoga as it is taught now has been reduced to just a form of physical exercise. But physical health is just one of its benefits. Yoga as taught by Patañjali is a means to enlightenment. But the body language of Patañjali no longer exists; only his words exist. You need a living Master who is in the same consciousness as Patañjali, to transmit the essence and experience of the words.
It is very difficult to relate with a living Master. You see, it is very easy to relate with dead masters. You can project all your imaginations about God on him. When Kṛṣṇa promises that He descends again and again—sambhavāmi yuge yuge— what He means is the Kṛṣṇa energy will descend. People think Kṛṣṇa will come down in the same form with the yellow clothes, the flute and the two peacock feathers.
Again and again, Kṛṣṇa happens on planet Earth, but our incompletions are so cunning, they manage in making us miss Him in any form. We miss all the living Masters. It is easy to fool yourself, escaping from a living Master and just worshipping a Master who has left the body. You escape all the possibilities of transformation.
You can just say, ‘Amayaṁ anahaṁkāraṁ arāgaṁ amadaṁ tathā...’ ‘I offer my non-attachment to you’, ‘I offer my ego to you.’ You can say that to an idol and that idol will be just standing. But, if you tell me that, I will simply catch your neck and say,
‘Hey! Where is your non-attachment? Give it. Where is your ego? Surrender it!’
With the living Master, he will be constantly working on you, to cut your ego and to show you your true Self. But the ego is afraid to die at the Master’s hands, so you try to escape. Just being open to his energy can get rid of the biggest cancer in you, your ego.
WHY
GURU?
When you realize the truth that you too
are one with the Universe, there is
nothing more to desire; nothing to be
attached to. There is no longer any
differentiation between who you are and
what the Universe is.
Māyā, the illusion of that separation, disappears. That is why the Master is called Guru, one who leads you from ‘gu’, which is darkness, to ‘ru’, that is light; one who leads you from ignorance to bliss. A Master does not differentiate between good and bad. He doesn't care if what you do is considered meritorious by society or sinful.
