Guru Shakti

"Guru is not a person. Guru Shakti is the infinite energy, and that is also the energy of yourself. If you become empty, you too will become that. The energy will shine through you." ~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"These things that I do, ye shall do also." ~Jesus 

The Guru is not here to be our personal savior. The Guru is here to teach us sadhana, to remind us and re-heart us of ourselves.

The most difficult renunciation is not to go beyond drink, or sugar, or sexual indulgence, or wealth, but to go beyond the glamor of the Master.

The truth is hard, but the truth sets us free. We don't absorb eternal Light from the form and personality of the Master. We absorb eternal Light from the core of our own heart, after the Master's grace has ignited it.

But spirituality becomes religion when we replace the inward sadhana with the personality cult of the guru. This was the mistake of the Church. Jesus taught the kingdom of heaven within, but they replaced the radiance of the heart with the outward form, and ended by worshiping a white robe and pair of sandals. That is why Jesus told the Magdalene, "Do not cling to me."