Chapter Thirty-Four: Straightforward & Frank

Saralta

Dear Sadhak friends,

Be Frank and Fearless with your guru.  You have been most fortunate in finding the greatest, the most supreme Gunatit Swaroop thus remain modest, frank and fearless with your guru.

Arrogance and false pride only brings about a notion that we are right and others always wrong and serves to increase our ego and makes us conceited.  Fear leads us to conceal our faults and vices and thus maintain them.  This indicates that we would rather avoid purification of the vices than face the fact that they exist.    

Thus we should remain frank and honest with our guru.  We should be fearless of the mundane world and should not endeavour to conceal anything from our guru.  Remain unpretentious and humble,  pray to the Lord for strength to endure the process of purification, it will be granted immediately.

As long as we feel that others do not understand our situation or our predicament – we are a long way off our goal.  However, when we genuinely feel that we should understand others’ feelings, we should understand God and try to perceive His intentions, God will grace us with his blessings.  Then if God wishes us to serve Him, he will enlighten us and show us the way……