THE PHENOMENON THAT IS THE MASTER
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The ultimate connection
With a Master, you don't have to relate verbally. Just the idea of relationship is more than enough; it will lead you to success in spiritual life. For example, if your husband is in the USA, do you have to verify by talking to him on and off? The deep feeling of connection is enough, isn't it? You don't need to talk or be physically around him. If you don't have the deep feeling of connectivity, it will help neither him nor you.
Feeling deeply connected is what is important in the Guru-disciple relationship. To make you feel connected in the initial level is necessary, but the real thing is feeling really connected.
The more time you get to sit and talk to me, the more nonsense you will talk and not be precise. The main message will be lost. Purposely I will make myself unavailable so that when people see me, they can talk only what is useful to them and not what they want to talk. They will say, 'Swamiji, my neighbor's husband's niece's friend is sick. Can you heal him?' A few minutes with me they will waste like this. I will give vibuthi - holy ash - but they will say, 'No, you heal him Swamiji.' They waste the valuable time around me. So it is better that they have less time.
Sharada Devi says: if you have more time with the Master, you will take him for granted because you see him performing his day-to-day activities. Krishna is great because in mythology, only the divine miracles are recorded, not the day-to-day human incidents...
Paramahamsa
Guru-disciple relationship
May 2005, Himalayas, India
