Dangers of connecting to 'dead' Masters
Even when I am sitting directly in front of you, and making a statement clearly in English, which you can understand, you are not able to catch the thread and catch the message. Now if somebody is sitting somewhere, in some other consciousness, some other space, how do you think you are going to connect with him telepathically? And even if you get some message from him, how are you going to find out how much is from him and how much is your mixture ? And how are you going to classify, how are you going to understand?
And do you think, even if you start following him and getting some messages, you will have the courage to complete it? If there is some problem in between, what you will think? You will think, 'Who knows from where that message came, maybe it's my own imagination!' These kinds of difficulties.
That is the reason we always say the living Master is lot more easier.
Forget about dead Masters, even with the living Master, in few days, if you try to remember my words, it will not be exactly as I uttered - it will be as you wanted to hear it! Even with the living Master, again and again you need to correct your notes, you need to update your notes, update your understanding. Even with a living Master it becomes such a big task.
But with the living Master, straightaway away he will work. I have always seen, the karma which the disciple would have exhausted after years, or the clarity which they would have got after years, it suddenly happens. The whole being opens up in just one or two days of working with the Master. Even in one or two days, so many things will open up, so many things will be cleaned, so much of purification will start happening. That is the reason there is so much of emphasis on the living Master in the Vedic tradition.
Practicing the Guru's presence in your life
Whatever you experience as God, you will experience with me.
Some will have thirty percent fear and thirty percent love, and thirty percent confused emotions. Some will have maybe fifty percent fear, forty percent confused emotions. Some will have one hundred percent fear, and some will have one hundred love, no fear. You will be experiencing the Guru in different ways.
Whatever you experience as Guru, that's what your experience of God will be. Whatever may be the experience you have about Guru, whether it is with fear or the attitude of Master and disciple or the attitude of father and son or the attitude of mother and son or the attitude of friend or the attitude of beloved, practice his presence around the clock.
An air bubble in a copper wire will not allow the copper wire to be a conductor. Electricity will never flow in it. The hypocrisy which you carry is like the air bubble. It will not allow the Guru-disciple relationship to happen. It will never allow the presence to permeate you, penetrate you. Practicing the presence with tremendous respect is the only way.
Two things will happen by practicing the presence of God
or Guru in your life: One, all your actions will fall into awareness. Second, the lower experience you carry about the Master, like fear, will become extinct; it will be burnt away. The percentage of fear you experience with me will be burnt away. The percentage of other emotions except pure surrender that you experience with me will also be burnt away.
These two things are possible only by practicing intensely the presence of Guru, practicing the presence of the Master.