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Why Guru

Why Guru

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INTRODUCTION 5

WHO IS A GURU? 8
Understand who is Guru 8
Why do Gurus happen on planet Earth? 10
How to identify your Guru? 12
The Living Guru 13
When and why to surrender 18
Dangers of connecting to ‘dead’ Masters 21
Practicing the Guru’s presence in your life 23
What is the difference between the Guru and you? 26
Leela Dhyana - Catching the enlightened body language 30
Don’t be a Guru widow 33

GURU-DISCIPLE RELATIONSHIP 35
Catching the Master, Missing the Master, Abusing the Master 35
Your logic cannot grasp the Guru 37
Guru is beyond his thoughts and actions 38
Guru is just your reflection 40
Raise yourself instead of bringing Guru down 42

Never take Guru's words for granted 44

Dropping from the Guru 47

HOW THE GURU WORKS ON YOU 48

Guru goes on pushing you 48

Guru blows away your mind 49

Guru is continuously polishing you 51

Suffering comes only from separation 53

Sangha is the Guru's operation theater! 55

Guru asks for nothing but your co-operation 57

DEEPER TRUTHS ABOUT THE GURU 59

Guru is your own ultimate possibility 59

Neither you nor Guru exists! 62

Guru neither accepts nor rejects you 64

Exaggeration is your mind's nature 66

Guru is the statement of God 69

Devotion is the antidote for delusion 70

Power of the Guru's Initiation 74

Q & A WITH PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA 78

Master, Mystic, Avatar, God 79

Guru is a Black Hole and a Big Bang 82

Rahu and Ketu – your hidden astrological influencers 89

Why Gurus are persecuted 90 SACRED GLIMPSES: LEARNINGS FROM MY GURUS 92

Advaita with the Guru dissolves fear 92

Guru moves the Cosmos for you! 93

Guru challenges your microcosmic bio-memory 101

How you recognize the Guru 102

Whatever you don’t have is God! 104

Withstanding the Guru’s tremendous love 107

Decision to stand with the Guru 108

Grinding from both sides 111

Importance of trust and love 114

THE LION AND THE CUB 120

(A story I love to tell)

About HIS HOLINESS PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA 144

Water lily flower blooming on water
A photograph of a smiling spiritual teacher seated on an ornate silver throne, gesturing with the left hand in chin mudra.