Sublime

The guru is on the path to enlightenment, same as you, but he or she must have more realized qualities of knowledge and realization.

Know wherever there is ardent desire, there is the world! Taking refuge in this mature non-attachment, be without desire, and be happy!

Don’t those who wish to follow his path need to abide by his discipline? Therefore, where and why should I go anywhere? Does not my jñāna-father, who brought me into his house of truth, know how to conduct other sincere seekers similarly? Why should ego develop in the form of “I have to show them the way”?

jñana yogi; that is to say, one who comes to an authentic realization, or satori, by an intellectual rather than an emotional or physical discipline.

The more valuable way to chant it is to understand it in ever-deepening practice so that it transforms us at the most fundamental level. If the LSN is deeply studied and applied in sādhanā and in life itself, no other practice would be needed for liberation. This is the approach explored in this book.

Devipuram—“The Goddess’s Abode”—the temple complex that Guruji had spent more than three decades building up from almost nothing in the rural wilds of eastern India.