Guru quotes by Sadhguru
Why do gurus shave their beards? Beard does not grow on just Gurus, it grows on all men, But they are all doing all kinds of funny things with it - you must ask them why are they shaving it.
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guru who comforts you is no good to you. There is nothing spiritual about giving solace to people. It is just a psychological comfort which your family can offer, which your dog can offer. Dog is good solace for you
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if you are seeking a guru for solace, there are many. If you are seeking a guru for liberation, then if you sit with him you feel threatened, you want to run away from him but at the same time, you don’t want to leave him for a moment.
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Guru: Gu means darkness, Ru means dispeller -dispelling darkness. How to dispel darkness? You cannot kick the darkness out of a place because darkness is not an existence by itself. Darkness is just absence of light.
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My work as a guru is just to give you a taste of that ultimate, so that your life goes into a tizzy, and you go crazy, and you want to go for it. You have had a taste, now you can't stop.
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The whole art of being a Guru is just this: to constantly puncture people’s ego and still manage to remain their friend.
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The best thing that you can ever do for your guru... is that you drop your nonsense and grow
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Women won't make good gurus nor will men make good gurus. Unless you know how to be beyond the two you can't be this
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There is no better insight into someone's teaching than looking at the way he lives
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A guru is like a live road map. If you want to walk uncharted terrain, I think it is sensible to walk with a road map
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If you really know the pain of ignorance, then a Master arises. You don't have to look for Him.
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A Guru is somebody who will destroy your psychological reality, so that you can come down to the existential
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A Guru's role is to destroy one's petty creation so one can touch the Creator's creation
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Work of a Guru is to make the mystical available to the human being, what is available, they are making it mystical
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The job of a Guru is not to interpret the scriptures but to take you to another dimension of life.
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You don’t go to a Guru for solace. He is not a tranquilizer – he is there to awaken you.
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The work of a Guru is not to bring morality to you, but to bring spirituality to you
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A Guru is a cascade of energy. You have to soak your spiritual seed in it. It shall sprout
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Role of a Guru: some people see sun only once a year when they go on vacation, some welcome sun ever morning, whatever you want to choose, I'll leave that to you
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I do not believe in telling people what they should do. My business is only to make you conscious.
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Don’t worry about who is your guru. You just see how to intensify your longing, your seeking.
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Guru is not somebody who consoles you. Guru is somebody who constantly threatens your individuality
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The work of a Guru is essentially, not to bring morality to you but to bring spirituality to you. The difference is just this – one is an imposition, another is a natural blossoming -to see that this human nature reaches its ultimate possibility.
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Guru’s Grace is not designed to fulfill your plans but life’s plan for you.
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A Guru is like a live road map – more important than anything when you are lost in unknown terrain
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Don’t seek a Guru. Just seek a solution for your life – a Guru will happen
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A Guru is a doorway to the Beyond. The Guru is only important because what is beyond him is important
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The inner dimension is uncharted terrain; it is sensible to take directions. A guru is a live road map
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If you are still a female or a male it means you are not yet spiritual; and especially if you are still seeing a guru as a male or a female, you have no possibility. You are still not able to disidentify yourself with your body parts
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The best thing that you can ever do for your guru, if at all if you feel like you want to do is, that you drop your nonsense and grow. What's the best thing a garden can do for a gardener? To grow and bloom, isn't it?
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If a vacuum of 'I do not know' happens within you, Sadhguru will happen to you, you don't have to search because you don't know how to search. If you search with your intellect, naturally you will search for that kind of person with whom you're most comfortable
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If you constantly feel threatened by him, at the same time you want to be with him, that means he's a good guru for you. If you are very comfortable with him, he is a no good guru for you. You must be constantly uncomfortable with him; at the same time, you long to be with him
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How difficult the spiritual process is for you is determined by you, not by nature, not by your guru
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The work of a Guru is not to take you to the movies but on a tour of the projection room
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A Guru is someone who dispels the darkness in you. You can call him a light bulb if you want.
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A Guru is not a goal. A Guru is a means. A Guru is like a doorway. If you pass through the doorway, you find reality
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I am neither modern nor ancient - just contemporary, as every Guru was. If one is not relevant for today, what is the point?
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If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.
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The best thing that you can do for your Guru is what is ultimately best for yourself.
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A guru works in his presence and out of his presence, not through words. Guru is a certain energy, a certain space, not a person. The relationship is neither physical, psychological nor emotional, it is beyond body and mind
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when you are so much mind you need another mind to fix you. If you were not mind, you were all receptivity, then the dead and even the non-existent would help; even a rock would help you, just a blade of grass could be your guru. Yes. But that is if you are mindless
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If I was a moral teacher, I would try to change you. Because I am a Guru, I do not try to change you. I’m not asking you to be good, I’m not asking you to be peaceful, I am not asking you to be nice to somebody, I don’t intend to change you like that, that will be just a pretension, My intention and my work is to bring clarity.
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The best gift you could offer me on this day is a promise & commitment that as a generation, we will leave behind a rich soil & abundant water.
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If you are present, I am always present - all your life and beyond. Even after I leave my body, I will still be present
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If you have really been with me even for one moment, this is your last life
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This must be understood. Only when you begin to experience me as something more than a person, only then I am your Guru, till then I am not.
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Adiyogi made a dimensional change in the way people perceive and understand the existence and the source of creation. And he made himself a bridge between a simple piece of creation and the source of creation.
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Guru Purnima celebrates the human ability to rise beyond physical nature, and the Greatness of Adiyogi, who made this possible.
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The most dominant factor of my life has been my Guru and nothing else. Even today in my mind – more than in my mind, literally in every crevice in my body and every pulsation in my system – it is just His presence which is the most dominant within me.
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Guru is held as the most important contact in one's life because he touches that dimension that nobody else can
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"Being with a Guru" means... you are not seeking guidance, you are not seeking help - you are seeking direct action
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Whatever opens up the subjective dimensions of your life for you, that's your guru
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A Guru is not there to give you commandments, a Guru is there to constantly crank you up and crank you up and crank you up.
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A Guru is a catalyst. His presence activates, enhances, and hastens the spiritual process.
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Being with a Master is never comfortable because he will break all your limitations and ideologies
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If I were a moral teacher, I would try to change you. Because I am a Guru, I do not try to change you.
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The very purpose and the basic function of the guru is to destroy all the things that you have assumed as true.
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A Guru is a presence, not a person. To make use of this energy and possibility, all you have to do is become an opening
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When you're so full of mind, you need another mind, cleverer than your mind, constantly fixing you.
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It's time that tools of transformation are in the hands of every individual. Not in the hands of organisations, gurus or scriptures but in the hands of every individual. As all problems on the planet are of human origin, it's individual human beings that need to be addressedHumanity Spirituality Transformation Spiritual science
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Importance has been laid upon love for the guru because of a certain misunderstanding, and a certain understanding
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A Guru means somebody who can throw light on your life. If he's not contemporary, what use is he to you?
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Do not go searching for a Guru. When the pain of ignorance within you becomes a scream, a Guru will come in search of you
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A Guru creates his personality in such a way that people don't know whether to love it or to hate it.
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Guru Pournami was always recognized & celebrated as the day when new possibilities opened up for human race.
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if you seek a friend, what kind of friend do you seek? Do you seek a friend who punctures your ego every day? You seek a friend who nourishes your ego every day, If somebody punctures your ego, he becomes your enemy, even if you seek a guru, you will only seek with this context.
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May your unique Inner Nature fully blossom to bring fragrance and beauty to the world. Experience the Boundless Grace of the Guru
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This month is seen as the best time to receive the Grace of the Guru and make yourself receptive to the process. This is a good time to earn that attention from the Grace
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Guru Purnima should be a holiday so that people know the significance of it. When such a phenomenon got involved with the human creature, it should not go to waste.
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On Guru Purnima, there is a certain alliance between the Moon and the planets, which creates a receptivity in people to that dimension which we refer to as the guru.
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When you go into a terrain which is unfamiliar to you, it’s best to go with someone who has already walked the terrain.
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