“You look into the guru and you see your own truth, you see your own face. The guru is a perfect mirror to show you what you are not.”
The soil into which spirituality from the East was planted was not so rich in the early days. In India, everyone believes in reincarnation and sees life from that perspective. In the West words like “Guru”, “devotion” and “surrender” have a hard time being digested. Most of the people who are Saints in India would be hospitalized in the West. Now there seems to be a shift where we can honor these traditions in a way that does not water them down.
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