The Living Guru🔗

All scriptures, all literature, all method of teachings can only inspire you; it cannot give you the experience. Understand, this is the first law. All books, all DVDs, all cassettes, everything, can only create inspiration in you - it cannot give the experience. When I say all, I mean capital letter A-L-L, including mine.

Experience is like a lamp, only from a burning lamp or light, you can pick up, catch. Only from a burning lamp you can light another lamp. Same way, jivanmukti (living enlightenment)can be transmitted only from a living body to another living body. If that body has to catch jivanmuktI, it has to catch it from the same material source, which is already living enlightenment.

Please understand, I am describing very clearly the need for a living Master. If that body which is made out of muscle and has a mind made out of thought, needs to catch living enlightenment jivanmukti fire, it has to catch it only from another body which is living enlightenment of the same frequency, which means, having the same flesh and bones. Be very clear Mahavtar Baba cannot give you living enlightenment. Please understand, I am making a very strong statement, but truth. He cannot give you jivanmukti. He can only give you inspiration, experience, some glimpse. But if he wants to give jivanmukti he has to guide you to a person who is in the physical body. .

Ramakrishna or Ramana Maharshi or Mahavatar Baba or Osho or J

Krishnamurti, are all still in the cosmic plane because with whoever they committed while they were in the physical body; for example if you lived during the time that Ramakrishna was there and you had direct connection with him and he blessed you; now that he passed away and you are still here, he will still take care of you. But no new addition is possible after the body has left. Now, Mahavtar Baba; all of you I think understand what I am saying?

Now, if you are a seeker praying to Ramakrishna or Ramana Maharshi, they can guide you to a living Master, that's all. They themselves will not be able to give; because it has to be transmitted from this plane; from flesh and bone. That is why the need for a living Master comes back. Understand, that is why no huge organization is able to own spirituality than a living Master. Seekers are around me, the reason is, it has to be, it can be transmitted only from flesh to flesh; the person who is living jivanmukti through his muscle memory and muscles.

See I will be living jivanmukti without muscles after I leave the body. I will be living jivanmukti that is not a problem. But because there is no muscles I will not be able to transmit it to the person who is with muscles. If I initiate you now and give you the assurance only then I can handle you even if I leave the body. So if you had assurance from Ramakrishna, Ramana Maharshi or Osho, somebody, when they are in the flesh, then you don't need to go to new Master. It may not be needed. But even then usually they guide to a living Master; because living around the Master is not only living enlightenment, it's a joy. It's an ecstasy, it's a way of life. Its for this reason that they guide.

Understand thoroughly. Otherwise, if you had no connection with them physically when they were in the body, even they can't do anything. Mahavtar Baba will not be able to give you enlightenment or the spiritual experience; he can only guide you. This is the reason why living Masters are still a necessity, it is not replaced at all. The necessity for a living Master existed even when the whole thing was started by Shiva millions of years ago. The only thing which is not yet outdated which can never be outdated is the necessity for a living Master.

When and why to surrender

Q. To surrender to a living Master fully is almost impossible for me. What is the best way to attain enlightenment for a seeker who cannot surrender completely?

This is a wonderful question. It's like you are asking, 'Achieving enlightenment is almost impossible for me. What is the way you give for me to achieve enlightenment?'

Actually there are some possibilities. You can surrender to a deity. You can surrender to the Master who left the body.

Understand, Masters who left the body are not dead as you think. The dead Masters are not dead as you think, living Masters are not alive as you think. They are still available. Their presence does not have a body; you can still connect with them. The only problem is it takes lot of time.

Living Master is the first choice, the second choice is Masters who left the body - trying to connect with them and the third choice some deity whom you don't even know existed or not; that is the third choice.

Of course last choice - try to connect or surrender to anything even to a hill or river or ocean or a small stone; the very surrender will raise you to the deeper and higher and higher frequencies.

When you say namah - let the 'I and mine' be relaxed, let the 'I and mine' be surrendered, that itself will raise you to the higher states of consciousness, higher frequencies. But whatever is said and done it will all take its own time and only second or third choices.