One Version (more later):
ABOUT TRUE TEACHERS
Devotion to a spiritual teacher
is not for the sake of the teacher,
it is for God.
Commentary by “A Life Lived”:
In the history of the great and holy beings of the world the greatest and the most blessed have been the devotees. ... devotion teaches one Virtue; sincerity, earnestness, the sense of duty: all different Virtues come by devotion. A person who is devoted to anyone in the world, to one's father or mother or brother or sister or children or friend, has taken the first step in devotion. But the one who shows his-her devotion in the spiritual path to his-her teacher S/He has taken the second step. S/He has only to take one more step and S/He will be there.
And that will be the devotion to his-her Ideal.
~~~(previously unpublished comments)
The secret of discipleship is not study or contemplation, but devotion; at that moment it is NOT about the Teacher-Guide but God who is seen. The door is unlocked, the shrine is opened, it is no more about the Teacher-Guide but about God; and from that time I realized that, Teacher-Guide apart -- anyone in the world, mother, father, servant, poor person, beggar, innocent child, helpful friend, even through them God can answer the cry of the heart,
if one went at the right moment and knocked at the door. ... Devotion to the teacher is not for the sake of the teacher, it is for God. Even in the case of a teacher the devotee may make a mistake by halting at the feet of the teacher and not progressing to God. The teacher is a shield covering God, a Gate through which one has to go (may choose to go). As it is necessary to enter the Gate, so to reach God it is necessary to have devotion to the teacher first. But the Ideal of real progress is that we, through our devotion, arrive to God, freeing ourselves from all limitations and bondages.
For the teacher one has gratitude, but love and devotion is for God.
~~~(previously unpublished comments)
Remember that the teacher is one who is oneself a disciple. In reality there is no such thing as a teacher. God alone is Teacher, we all are disciples.
The lesson we all have to learn is the lesson of discipleship; it is the first and the last.
~~~(previously unpublished comments)
Devotion to a spiritual teacher is not for the sake of the teacher, it is for God.
*Ideal (Highest Ideal) (Ideal=God and Union of same)
All Original One Jozef Material and Intellectual Property Copyrights Reserved 2000
Web Design by B.Simple.
