THE ULTIMATE GUIDANCE
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(In response to a question regarding live Masters with a huge following versus dead masters)
Let me explain it to you this way: on the one hand, people are not able to ask their questions or get their doubts cleared individually because of the huge following. On the other hand, with live Masters, people find that whenever the question is sincere, whenever it is a quest, the living Master answers it in some way or the other. The living Master will guide you. This is more of a possibility with a living Master than with a dead Master. It is not that it is not possible with dead Masters. It is possible. But you have forgotten the language in which they speak. Their language is too subtle. You need to drop your inner chatter totally in order to hear them! With a live Master, you have a loudspeaker. So even if you have inner chatter, I can be louder than that! But dead Masters become very silent, very subtle. Be very clear: they continue to speak, to communicate with you. You can call it communion. The problem is that it has become one-sided. You have forgotten how to listen to them; you have forgotten the language in which they speak.
They speak in the language of silence. And you do not know that language. You may know many other languages - English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, but not the language of silence. Even when I say the word silence, you refer to the Oxford dictionary! The meaning given there is soundlessness. But that is not the meaning I want to convey. What I mean is a vibrant, alive energy! But you are not able to relate in that language. With living Masters, you can understand what they have to say because they use the language that you know. So the possibility of a live Master being able to guide you is more than a Master who has left the body.
Another problem is, with dead Masters you can always project your own ego and satisfy yourself. With a living Master this is not possible as he continuously knocks on your ego!
Paramahamsa
Love to Survive
11 Aug 2004, St. Louis, USA
