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how do i connect with my guides
it seems that nobody can hear me it
seems that i am alone i am left here in
this desert of the world with no
guidance at all and then this idea of
there being guide or guides who
magically
guide you in this world in the waking
state in order to achieve whatever you
are trying to achieve or just help or
just as a companion just as a friend
usually what i say is that
the guidance is always there it is there
right now right here what has happened
is that we look for things outside by
outside i mean
in the world in the phenomena we look
for answers there
we look for guidance there that
something will appear in my experience
that will
give me whatever i want and that is why
when it comes to spiritual guidance we
also go and look outside somewhere
something will happen those who are kind
of
dreamy kind of people
they look for the guidance in the dreams
because dreams look like magical isn't
it we don't know how they happen and
also people substitute the unknown for
mysterious
so they think that
some the guides will contact me in the
dreams and they look for that and then
some people they are spiritual they call
themselves spiritual and they look for
the guidance
in the altered states of the mind like
in the samadhi states meditative states
or drug induced states or out of body
states who knows what and
let me tell you one thing straight that
these are not totally false
if in a spiritual community some notion
appears some idea appears then you can
say that it has appeared out of a
genuine experience of somebody there is
hardly anything which is imaginary what
has happened is that spiced up version
of the
experience they become imaginary people
don't want to
talk about it in a plain manner they
spice it up they sugarcoat it they bake
it into a birthday cake so
it looks presentable and
then ultimately the content is lost only
the packet remains
that is what happens
because
when those who are not experienced those
who did not experience the thing that
the original person
and the
one who started the idea experience then
they cannot have the cake they get only
the pack the outer packet
so this has happened so there is truth
in that and there is
a lot of made up stuff in these notions
of guides how to contact them and where
they will appear so i was after all this
thing obviously otherwise i wouldn't
have known all these things so
for a long time i was looking for
guidance from a magical
way and
i don't know but
there was nothing extraordinary that
happened
what happened is that i found that the
ordinary is magical the ordinary way is
nothing short of magic
so you can guess my answer was that
look for guidance from a living guide
look for the guidance from somebody who
has a human body speaks your language
lives nearby because
you are not really interested in magic
you are not really interested in the
spooky alien out of the world entities
probably you are but that is you know
besides the point the point is guidance
isn't it so
if you are looking for guidance then it
is available
in ordinary form it is available through
human guides
what did i find was that these human
guides they appear ordinary they appear
like you and me you see nothing
extraordinary no horns and no tails and
no
doctor strange kind of strange powers
nothing but
when they speak there is magic in their
voice the magic is there in the ideas
the magic is there in their experience
their knowledge
that is the real magic
everything else is bells and whistles
you see the diwali lights and crackers
firecrackers and i have seen that those
who are just starting or the young
people or the spiritually young people
the
age of the body does not matter here
somebody can be old but the spiritual
maturity may not be there
so those people they go for whatever
shines whatever lights up
whatever engages their fantasies
they look for that and someday they you
know hear these things that oh there are
guides
and the only way to get awesome
knowledge is by contacting your awesome
guide who lives in who knows where which
dimension and will come here to serve
you the freshly cooked knowledge which
nobody else knows in this world
now this is immature yes but
it can become a delusion if you do not
get over it if you do not mature out of
it if you do not graduate out of it
you may get exotic guides you may get
aliens you may get
ascended masters as your guides
you may even get the small gods and
goddesses they may also appear and
sometimes you may get exactly that
avatar that you know that you worship
that you hang a calendar of that the
statues you put in on your altar the
elephant gods or the monkey gods or the
bull gods or whatever is your culture is
prescribing they it can appear in
exactly that form also are the true is
that phenomena real when it happens does
that mean that my ordinary guru
is worthless because i don't have this
extraordinary entities to guide me you
can guess the answers
everything that happens here is false
everything that you experience is maya
everything that appears and disappears
is an illusion
do not consider all this phenomena all
these guides all these
exotic creatures that you may find
in whatever exotic worlds and whatever
extraordinary states of the mind do not
consider them as real and do not
consider them as unreal there is a
specific word for it it is called maya
it is called an appearance it appears
it is foolishness to classify it as real
or unreal there is no such thing in
existence
real and unreal are just subjective
criteria of classification of
experiences nothing is true nothing is
false everything appears
now you can say okay this appeared i
will put it into the category of real
and this appeared i'll put it in the
category of unreal you're most welcome
be my guest you can make your own
criteria to call anything real unreal it
hardly matters
hardly matters therefore
a very mature spiritual seeker a guru a
master it will not actually categorize
anything will not say oh it was true it
was not
it is foolish foolishness anything can
appear here anything can disappear and
on the path of knowledge we have
you see a tradition
traditionally we we call that which
appears and disappears which comes and
goes
as
not true now it is just a choice of word
you see because ordinary language but
the technical language is more precise
it is called maya you can translate it
as an appearance
do not try to classify it into anything
else so that's why i said yes it is
possible that
the
universe or this existence can appear as
in any form it's not a big deal
look at your own form you see it's a
walking talking monkey
it is appearing isn't it it is
it looks so solid and real it will
disappear also it disappears every time
you go to sleep and in the other worlds
in the dream worlds
and then finally disappears it becomes
dirt
because from it came from the dirt the
dirt stood up in the form of a naked
monkey calls itself human goes back in
the five elements
isn't this magic
i mean what else are you going to call
as magic we simply dismiss it as
appearance we dismiss the whole waking
state the whole world the sansar as
um
false
not true
so yes all your guides are false all
your gurus are false i am false this
voice is false
it is merely an appearance
never make this mistake of calling the
appearance as useless because i made
that mistake oh its appearance it is
false
so no use for me so that is the mistake
that many people make
will the guide appear as a human or as a
exotic entity
don't have these delusions and it
appears accept it do not dismiss it just
as appearance everything has a reason
here it it has appeared there is a
reason never dismiss it because i made
this mistake and i i ran after that
which never appears the truth
well there is no such thing everything
will appear but it is very useful
what happens is your spiritual progress
will not happen if nothing appeared
isn't it if you do not incarnate in the
maya
there is no such thing as spiritual
progress then there is no such thing as
the evolution of the mind then you see
so you have already decided to to play
this play of evolution you have all
that's why you are here isn't it that's
why
there is this individual and don't worry
it's not you it is the whole it is the
existence
that has it is the brahman itself that
has broken itself into many many
appearances forms and it is enjoying
this play
why are you looking for a guide why are
you looking for a guru you feel lost
isn't it what am i doing here why is
this incarnation why is this waking life
and why is this birth and that you're
lost isn't it
and when you ask people you get all the
bs there is in the society
you are here to make a lot of money
marry produce many many children hold a
lot of wealth you know build a house and
then die
this is that um explanation of the
society that we are born in
now i'm not against this you may do this
but all you will get is evolution all
you will get is progress no matter what
you do these things obviously they do
not stay they appear and disappear it
remember this isn't a this is maya this
is illusion it is going to go all all of
it what do you get
you get only progress the mind
progresses a little bit the jiv you see
that which is lost you can translate the
jig as something like this the part of
the brahman that feels i'm lost and that
you know it gets
a little bit of progress by experiencing
the life of human life
any experience is always a lesson so
when i say the guidance is here and now
look this is true because all that is
happening is a lesson all that is
happening is nothing but guidance what
has happened is that the mind expects
the guy to be exotic
the mind expects that oh i need the
guide to be this and this of this gender
he should or she should appear here and
there and they should look like this
because i read it in some book somewhere
it's not necessary the whole incarnation
this story is guide everything is here
to teach us something that's why i say
if you you are progressing don't worry
the guidance is not in a form of the
your favorite alien don't worry the life
is teaching you but those who are in a
hurry and we call them spiritual seekers
they should get to the nearest magical
person which will be an ordinary person
with a little bit of spiritual knowledge
they should go there they should start
taking guidance from there if you wait
for some magic to happen then not a big
deal you say it can happen who knows
but
you will waste your time
which means for a spiritual seeker time
is very important we do not want to
waste it
and therefore take the guidance from
wherever it is available
remember it is all magical remember it
is all
appearing it is appearing in this form
if it becomes very very familiar you
don't like it because the mind develops
likes and dislikes
but
if you are in a hurry if the urgency is
there
then you go and take it
it is like the person who is hungry you
see will eat the
two day old bread also will eat taste
less meal also whatever he gets those
who are not hungry put them put before
them you know all kinds of
juicy stuff
all kinds of exotic food they are not
going to touch it they will smell it no
i want something better
and you see the thirst is not there the
hunger is not there so
it totally depends on the seeker
those who are seeking those who want it
they will get it from the nearest and
the most
accessible
source of knowledge
that's what i did i i got tired of
waiting for
my favorite thing to give me the
knowledge because you see it looks like
a waste of time to me so i go there
where it is available and check
okay what are you telling me what are
you saying and let me find
if this knowledge is of any use for me
and i found only one thing that
if it comes from the mouth of a
10 000 year old
guru or if it comes from the mouth of
somebody who is speaking on the youtube
same thing exactly the same thing same
guidance not even a tiny difference
you see
that saves a lot of time
once i
renounced these kind of illogical
desire to get guidance from the exotic
sources the progress happened very
quickly otherwise it wouldn't have
happened otherwise i would have spent my
whole life looking for magical beings in
the states of the mind where there is
the perfect knowledge
i'm not saying it is not there it is
exactly the same which your ordinary
guru in ordinary satsang gives you no
difference
so that is what i wrote
you see as the answer where can i find
my guides in the first sentence
you will find it in ordinary
sources go don't waste your time
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