The Human Need for an Intermediary to the Divine Brings About the Presence of the Avatar, the World-Teacher, or the Human Guru

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Spiritual experience is not
realized through following a

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manual or cookbook.
There is not an actual way that

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any prescriptive documentation,
can both tune, the Consciousness

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to the spiritual plane nor avoid
the many chances of confusion

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that can arise through mistake,
were through misapplication or

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through misleading indications
provided either by the vital

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nature or Forces inimical to the
yogic development of the Seeker.

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It is easy to be led astray as
various types of ideas,

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emotions, feelings, Sensations
experiences and directions.

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Come during the practice.
The role of the human guide Guru

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teacher is to Aid, the Seeker
along the way to help him focus

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on the spiritual Energies.
To help create an atmosphere

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that is supportive of the needed
development and to watch over

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and protect him from various
obstructions that threatened to

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derail the effort, the long
history of the guru, taking a

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disciple into the household, or
ashram and providing, both

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instruction, and a supportive
atmosphere sets an example.

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Those were visited ashram such
as Ramana maharshi's ashram in

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tiruvannamalai or the SRI
aurobindo ashram and puducherry

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India report an intensity of
Silence aspiration and what can

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only be called a spiritual
pressure descending into the

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being while.
One is there. many sadhaks who

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spent numerous years under the
direct guidance and watchful eye

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of Sri aurobindo and the mother
report, not only the solid

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Descent of Peace but also
experiences such as a type of

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drilling of force descending
through the top of the head

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bringing with it, various
experiences of Peace, power

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wideness Joy, creative
expression that said True.

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People does ask.
What if I do not have a physical

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Guru?
Can I still make progress in

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yoga?
As well as do.

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I need to live in an ashram to
grow spiritually, the answer to

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both of these questions is that
while some individuals need that

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direct physical support and
atmosphere, this is not

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universally needed if there is a
connection at the level of

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Consciousness, which is one with
the guide or teacher.

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It is said that when the
disciple is ready to Guru

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appears but this does not
necessarily imply.

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A physical presence, many report
receiving instructions from

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their Guru, while meditating or
even in the dream state

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similarly experiences of opening
to the force of the guru come

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when one directs, the
Consciousness toward the guru or

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even visualize has passed in
counters at the ashram. or

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through meditation to place
oneself back into a time, and

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place where the experience and
the force were palpable in the

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presence of the guru SRI,
aurobindo writes, quote, even

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then his Nature Calls for a
human intermediary, so that he

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may feel the Divine in something
entirely close to his own

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humanity and sensible in a human
influence and example, This call

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is Satisfied by the Divine
manifest in a human appearance.

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The Incarnation, the Avatar
Krishna Christ Buddha, or if

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this is too hard for him to
conceive, the Divine represents

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himself through a less
marvelous, intermediary Prophet,

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or teacher for many who cannot
conceive or are unwilling to

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accept the Divine, man are ready
to open themselves to the

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Supreme man.
Terming him, not Incarnation,

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but World teacher were divine
representative.

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This also is not enough.
A living influence, a living

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example, a present instruction
is needed for.

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It is only the few who can make
the past teacher, and his

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teaching, the past Incarnation,
and his example, and influence a

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living force in their lives.
For this need also, the Hindu

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disciplined provides in the
relation of the guru and the

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disciple, the guru May sometimes
be the Incarnation or World

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teacher but it is sufficient
that he should represent to the

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disciple, the Divine wisdom,
conveyed him, something of the

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Divine ideal or make him feel
the realize relation of the

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human soul, with the eternal,
And quote, reference SRI

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aurobindo in the mother growing
within the psychology of inner

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development.
Chapter 3 growth of

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Consciousness basic requisites
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