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6 Losing the Track I once asked a great spiritual teacher if she had had a guru. She looked at me for a long moment and said, “My teacher was the desert and in the desert, everything is as it is.”
Boyd Varty • The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

In other words, Īśvara is all-knowing and is knowledge itself.
Swami Satchidananda • The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: Commentary on the Raja Yoga Sutras by Sri Swami Satchidananda

the guru is ultimately not an external figure, but the unconditioned, boundless wisdom aspect of our own inner nature that has presented itself in the form
Reginald A. Ray • In the Presence of Masters: Wisdom from 30 Contemporary Tibetan Buddhist Teachers

“Asato ma sat gamaya,”
Amrutur V. Srinivasan • Hinduism For Dummies
The Upanishads say that none but a Guru can take a man out of the jungle of mental and sense perceptions, so there must be a Guru.
Arthur Osborne • Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self-Knowledge
