Rahu and Ketu – your hidden astrological influencers
Q. Beloved Swamiji, is it already written in the stars who will be my true Guru?
Yes. You can have many Gurus, but only one will ultimately be your sadGuru, who guides you on the path for many lives till you reach enlightenment. But your own astrological influences can postpone that happening - if you allow it.
For example, Rahu brings distance between you and Guru. Rahu erodes feeling-connection, bhakti. Ketu creates intense feeling-connection with the Guru.
When Rahu takes over, he separates you from Guru, and he also doesn't give you anything other than suffering. Ketu brings Guru's grace, takes you closer and closer to Guru. Constantly keeping you in the space of Completion is the job of Ketu. Ketu brings passion for ultimate reality.
Continuously, sincerely, be a cause for others to realize their reality. Continuously, sincerely, be a cause for others to realize their reality. Go on enriching everyone's life. I tell you, your life will be enriched! Your life will be showered. Come back to ketu and Guru's feet.
Anything can be missed for the sake of Guru. You will have Guru and what you missed for the sake of Guru. Guru should not be missed for anything, because then you will neither have Guru nor what for you missed Guru. When Guru takes over, he gives you Guru and all the best things of life, all the good things of the life.
Why Gurus are persecuted
Q. Swamiji, does every Guru go through religious persecution?
First thing I want you to know - do not go to a Guru who has not gone through religious persecution! I tell you, any Guru who is an authentic enlightened Master, will have a unique integrity and strength which cannot be tolerated by collective negativity and ignorance and the collective unconsciousness. They will try to persecute him. See an unconscious man who possesses even the ten rupees he has, who is greedy for money, cannot even understand I am not attached to this gold rudraksha or this golden throne. He cannot understand.
See, many times when a man comes out and does so much good, the collective negativity cannot tolerate it. It will persecute that man. Understand: if somebody is not persecuted, he has compromised with enlightenment. He doesn't have that integrity, that strength. So I tell you, don't go to a Guru who is not persecuted. Being persecuted is one of the basic scales to find out whether somebody is real Guru or not. That is the truth; that is the truth. Gurus go through religious persecution because of the honest, truthful contribution they make to the world.
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