Quotes on Guru Tattva

"It is not enough merely to prostrate before the Jnanis. We must make SARVASWA SHARANAGATI (complete surrender) to the Sadguru."

"Prashna means questioning and pariprashna denotes proper questioning. Mere questioning (prashna) is not enough. The question must not be asked with any improper motive to trap the guru and catch mistakes in the answer, or out of idle curiosity.”

- Shri Sai Satcharitra

"We should have firm faith in our guru and nowhere else."

- Shri Sai Satcharitra

If you cannot accept your Guru as God

How can you accept yourself as God?

Declaring your Guru as God is the first step towards Self Realisation!

-Unknown

"WHATEVER MAY BE GURU - HE MAY BE A LUNATIC OR A COMMON PERSON. ONCE YOU HAVE ACCEPTED HIM, HE IS THE LORD OF LORDS."

-Neem Karoli Baba

"Whoever travels without a Guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey."

- Rumi

There is no one higher than the guru", declares this Great Acharya....

"If we truly believe that Iśvara himself comes to us in the form of the guru there is no need for us to worship Iśvara apart from the guru.... As one who shows his disciple the path of deliverance, the guru combines in himself the roles of three gods- Brahmā, Vishnu and Maheśvara." ❤️

-Mahā Periyava of Kānchi Shankara Mutt

If you get a true guru in exchange for your head, it is a very cheap deal.

-Santh Kabir

So let the sadhaka never forget to work up his reverence and love towards his Guru. Let him lose no occasion to develop these qualities within himself. He should never tolerate any incident, companion, speech, etc., which militate against or reduce his esteem and Love for the Guru. There is a very nice Marathi saying which is pertinent to this subject.

"Kahimana

Kahimana

Maje Guru Maje Ayee"

Say what you like, Say what you like, my Guru, is my dear Mother. I am not going to change my attitude towards my Guru.

-Unknown

There can’t any knowledge without a Guru,

there won’t be any salvation without a Guru,

there won’t be any realization of truth without Guru and

there won’t be any removal of flaws without Guru.

-Kabir