Could it be Useful to Have a Guru: Teachings from A Course in Miracles

[Asad shaikh]

Could it be helpful to have a guru in your lifetime, especially when you have a dark night of the soul to go through? I've read that people all need some kind of help to undo all that people have learned. That's where Intercessory prayer comes in or a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they have done this kind of work through the generation of these family. Everything has to do with the energy of the individual and the group they travel with in spirit.



I study A Course in Miracles and see that I have grown tremendously in combination with the other spiritual books and work I have already been doing. However, I see since even my guru has some unlearning to do. The Course teaches us never put anyone on a platform and I see now. It has taken me a year and another dark night to note that I've put aside me knowing that there clearly was another way to deal with my illness. It absolutely was due to this guru that I postponed pursuing this. I think the lesson maybe that people all have the energy within us and when my guru speaks like any in life I must discern the knowledge and go within for the last answer. Whenever I push away that urge I find obstacles in my path. So I'm confused, I view a major change in me with this specific guru but at once I find the advice can conflict with my most inner beliefs and am forced to listen. I thought I must listen for this is actually the lesson: Tune in to the REAL SOURCE- the main one WITHIN. Please help me with see what else I could be missing.


Thanks for your heartfelt and sincere email. Role models (such as gurus or teachers or guides) are beneficial stepping stones as the ego is undone. They could be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's desire to Wake Up. best a course in miracles podcast They are able to offer beneficial and practical advice, teachings, and examples. Yet accepting the Atonement (Correction) is THE sole responsibility and this is a decision of mind that transcends the concept of personhood. Persons do not become enlightened, for the mind that believes itself to be always a person is asleep and dreaming of exile from the Oneness of Spirit. Whilst the deceived mind believes in linear time, Awakening will seem that occurs in stages. Through the seeming "process" of Awakening, symbols are used by the Holy Spirit as stepping stones that reflect higher or more expansive states of consciousness. A guru could be a symbol of the possibility of Enlightenment, yet the ability of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The last dark night is definitely the temptation to retain a feeling of individuality, privacy, autonomy, and uniqueness. All perceived darkness reflects the belief in private minds with private thoughts. Mind is one in forgiveness and One in Truth.

It's wonderful that you are seeing that the lesson of discernment always rests with the perceiver. Use your feelings as a barometer in this discernment, for how you feel is the main one right usage of judgment until it is apparent that any judgment is entirely impossible. Follow the Joy! Follow the Bliss! As you look within and make no attempt to protect or defend the ego, you'll go through the Love the ego was created to hide. Love simply Is, and once the obstacles to the awareness of Love's Presence have already been removed only Love remains.



Whenever you think of the concept of guru consider this:
Gee YoU aRe YoU
Here is the gentle reminder: I am as God created Me.
Here is the Power of Now.
Here is the simplicity of Being.

Truth is simple. The ego was the illusion of confusion and complexity.

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