How would you characterize the role of a teacher or a guru on this path?
Is it possible to surrender to a teacher or surrender to the ultimate through a teacher, or how does that work?
Here there is a great difference between a school teacher and a spiritual master.
A school teacher will examine the student and will teach the student no doubt, but examine.
And then if he does well, he will secure good marks. If he does not, then he will fail.
But a spiritual master will always play the role of a private tutor.
He will teach the student privately and secretly, untiringly, undeservedly.
And then he will say, now stand before Ignorance C. Ignorance C will examine you, taste you, tempt you.
You have to be the conqueror of Ignorance C.
So here the team, the spiritual master is a private tutor.
He will eliminate the student privately through his inner meditation, inner light.
And then he will say, now I will go and stand face Ignorance and conquer Ignorance.
So this is the difference between a school teacher and a spiritual master.
And also real spiritual master will tell his students, his disciples, that he is not the master.
The real master is God. He is only a representative.
As the president is here, then he has got ambassadors and so many others to represent him in different parts of the world.
So here God, the absolute supreme, has the spiritual masters as his representatives for those who are willing to be in their boards.
Say, I happen to be a teacher, spiritually.
Then in my boat, out of his infinite bounty, he has given me a boat.
And he says that these people are meant for your boat.
Then there are other spiritual masters. He will grant them also boats.
Then he will say, now you carry your passengers.
The passengers that are meant for your boat, you have to carry them, bring them to the destined shore.
But we are only his messengers. Boatman you can call or messenger boat.
You are just carrying the messages from this world to the other world.
The messenger's spiritual master is nothing but a messenger boat who is faithfully carrying the messages from both the worlds.
Here, when I am with my students, I take their cries, you can call imperfections, their bondages to my beloved pilot supreme.
And from him I bring smile, peace and bliss and I offer.
From here I carry one thing to him and from him I carry something else to my spiritual children.
I am a messenger boat.
