Sublime

In this degenerate time, if you can find a guru with even a few of these qualities, then you should consider accepting him or her as your teacher because such a person is so rare, on the verge of extinction. The good guru has realized the ultimate view is open-minded is reluctant to teach is tolerant is learned is disciplined is kind and never deni

Larson has long seen the classical Yoga of Patañjali as a type of “neo-Sāṅkhya,” an updating by those within the old Sāṅkhya tradition in an attempt to bring it into conversation with the more technical philosophical traditions that had emerged by the third to fifth centuries C.E., particularly the challenges represented by Buddhist thought

When gurus manifest human qualities and weaknesses, a seasoned and savvy student can reap merit by thinking this is just another symptom of the guru’s limitless kindness. But for those of us who cannot tune our attitudes this way, we can at least have human affection for a guru who sneezes, coughs, and feels sleepy.

Practices in Śrīvidyā differ according to sampradāya, and along with Lalitā Devī, the tradition includes the worship of other deities, particularly the elephant-headed Gaṇapatī, Bālā Tripurasundarī (the form of Devī as a young girl), Mātaṅgī, and Vārāhī.