Descipleship

• Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. • Guru-Bhakti is the foundation of all spiritual development. • Give me a genuine man; I do not want masses of converts. • Once you have pledged your faith to a particular teacher, stick to him with all force. • Nothing can be done without a Guru. • One’s destiny is in one’s own hands----------------the Guru only makes this much understood. • Mind you, the Guru-Bhakta will conquer the world-----------this is the one evidence of history. • Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru, and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. • The Guru has to bear the disciple’s burden of sin. • The power that can transform life in a moment can be found only in the living illuminated souls, those shinning lights who appear among us from time to time. • Find the teacher, serve him as a child, open your heart to his influence, see in him God manifested. • One touch, one glance, can change a whole life. • Without an unbroken chain of discipleship------------------Guruparampara---------------------nothing can be done. • A mere talker cannot be the Guru. • The Guru is the conveyance in which the spiritual influence is brought to you. • Nothing, I say, can be done without the chain of discipleship, that is, the power that is transmitted from the Guru to the disciple, and from him to his disciple, and so on.

• The Guru is the means of realisation. • The first thing needed is obedience. • The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.