In Satsang, you are meeting Yourself, the Truth. The presence of God, of Grace is a mysterious, unknown movement. There is a very clear difference between the written word and the one coming out from the Guru's lips. In the Western world, we plod along to accept the importance and the value of the Presence, of Grace, in the form of the Guru.
We should never underestimate the Presence of God, which is this Presence of Grace, when it takes the form of a Master. The Guru does not need to have exactly a human form. This Guru, who is Grace, God, can assume any form. Realize that the Guru is this Presence within you, but you are not aware of That. It is the Presence of God, but the Presence of God "sleeping." Then, there comes a time when a prayer gets into your heart making this God's Presence to truly awaken. It is when the external Guru assumes a human or non-human form entailing the awakening of the inner Guru.
God is always present, but His presence does not necessarily means He "awakened;" It does not mean He is "awaken." Therefore, you are Christ, you are Buddha, but a "sleeping" Christ, a "sleeping" Buddha. So God assumes a form – human or otherwise – and in His Grace implies the awakening of the inner Guru; God comes to awaken God, Christ comes to awaken Christ, Buddha comes to awaken Buddha! This is the Mystery, something very paradoxical, because God does not sleep! He is never unaware of Himself! Never try to get these words into a precise model, as something perfectly logical, because it is not. Truth is not logical; it is only the Truth!
Therefore, when the Guru comes, it is God coming in His Grace, in the form of the Guru. When the Guru talks to you about the Truth, you certainly hear these words, but they disappear; no reference about this talking remains, but only the Guru himself, and here lies the Mystery.
The Guru is beyond words, so the Guru remains and the words disappear. The Guru is important, but the words are not. So, if you are unsure, you approach the Guru one more time, a certain number of times, and each time the Guru speaks, the same Truth is pointed out through different words. Thus, you understand it and it results profoundly evident that THAT does not comes out from words, but from the Presence of the Guru, from the Presence of Grace.
I got to tell you this, because you can read an entire library about it, thousands and thousands of books, discuss it, talk about it, and even write about it, but that is of no use, because there is no Truth in words. The Truth is in the Presence of Grace! The Wise One is this Realized Self, which is Grace, which is the Guru. It is clear there is something else connected to the Guru's words, something above a teacher's speech, or the words of a book, there is something that gets more deeply into the heart of the disciple.
So, That makes the Miracle, the transformation, which we can call Real Experience, because That is the Truth viking out from the lips of the Sage – Krishnamurti awakening Krishnamurti, Ramana awakening Ramana, Jesus awakening Jesus ... It is the same simple and natural Truth of the Unique Self, of the Unique Consciousness.
It is different than when you read it in a book or when you listen to teachers, no matter how spiritual they are and how deeper their experiences were. They are not the Truth yet. That is, a "person" cannot provide you THIS.
There is a quotation of a Realized Being, a Wise One, called Sri Anandamayi Ma: "Once the Guru has accepted a disciple, He or She will never leave the disciple until the goal is attained." When you hear the word of the Guru, the word of the Grace, of the Truth, even the first time you are before Him or Her, your ego moves away temporarily and you envise the Truth – this is the Mystery, a powerful action of Grace! You should never forget there is no difference between You and the Guru. So, for the first time, you can undergo the Real Experience.
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