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Divinity is a Play and Divine the Way
(14) Unfailing faith in the Master (15) Surrendering to the will of Master and (16) Craving and restlessness to achieve the goal.
(3) Selection of Guide/Guru: Babuji in no uncertain terms spelled out the qualities and spiritual attainments of the Guide/Guru who will instill in us that strength and courage to enable us not just to see what is right for us to achieve the goal but to put that right into action. Babuji opines that a guru must be a selfless man, true servant of humanity at large, teaching people out of pure love, without any ulterior selfish motive of name, fame or money. He must have his access up to the farthest possible limit and must have the power of Yogic transmission. Such a man we have to seek for as our guide if we want complete success.
Further he must be completely merged in Divine Love so that its effect may automatically be radiating from his very being to cover all those sitting by Him. It is He who can foment us with His own internal Divine power (i.e.) transmission of Pranahuti, to make our task easy. As it is extremely difficult for a man of ordinary talents to draw inspiration from God direct, we seek the help of one of our fellow beings, call him guide/guru, who has established His connection with the Ultimate since He is the connecting link between God and Man. It is thro’ Him only we can reach God. He is the only power that can extricate us from the intricacies of the path. And many more have been spelled out by Babuji which we come to know when we go thro’ his works, in particular, Reality at Dawn.
Some of our brethren who have been fortunate enough of having had personnel contact with Babuji and to have experienced various spiritual conditions on their march towards the goal will admit without any reservation that the qualities and achievements of guide/guru as
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