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GURU CONFLICT

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A conflict within yourself

This is an important subject - Guru Conflict. It is nothing but a conflict inside yourself. There is no real conflict between the real Masters. If Rama & Krishna meet, they will hug each other, but Rama's monkeys and Krishna's cows will fight! The Energy is one and the same. All Masters are embodiment of the same Energy. There is no need for any conflict. I always tell people: go around, pluck flowers from any garden and make a nice garland! But they don't pluck from any garden, instead they bring only thorns - trouble!

learn from any Guru, it is better that you stay with only one Guru. After all, what are you going to learn from so many Gurus, when you can't learn from one? Going to the first Guru itself is wrong if you are doing just window shopping.

If you feel the Guru is only a teacher and not the path, just leave him. The thumb rule for knowing who your Guru is: your heart will simply fall, you won't even think of anyone else...!

If you are doing window shopping, you are not learning from any Guru. If you really know the knack of plucking flowers, you will become adept at plucking flowers from all the gardens. When you go from Guru to Guru, you will become more intense. But if you don't

Paramahamsa
Guru-disciple relationship
May 2005, Himalayas, India

Devotees prostrating