In How To Defuse Duality and Transcend Misguided Thoughtforms? – Big Picture Questions.com, we learned there are many misguided thoughtforms or programs that may get installed in our minds, if we choose to believe all the messages circulated by our media, government and other sources. Do we still need gurus today?

How did gurus help in earlier times?

In the transcript published today, Guy Needler said that in the old days, it was necessary for a student/chela to have a teacher/guru to get to a certain level of spiritual development. This belief is still very prevalent in India. Needler explained:

• At times, the guru or teacher created a situation, where they needed to have the students around them on a regular basis.
• This was to keep the guru in their position, to back up their own levels of possible awareness, which they were trying to teach the student to experience.
• But to do this, the guru said the student needed to link with him all the time, because the guru created a space (higher frequency environment) for the student to work with.

The student could only get to a certain level of awareness by linking with and working with the guru, who gave them a “frequential leg up” and could even remove some of their karma.

Can a guru remove karma from their student?

In “Autobiography of a Yogi,” Paramahansa Yogananda wrote: “A guru’s work in the world is to alleviate the sorrows of mankind, whether through spiritual means or intellectual counsel or will power or physical transfer of disease.” He explained:

• Only great gurus, saints or self-realized masters are able to assume the karmic burdens of their disciples to quicken their evolution.

Image: Guru-Disciple pairs (left to right): Babaji & Lahiri Mahasaya, Lahiri & Sri Yukteswar, Yukteswar & Paramahansa Yogananda.

But a master can use the human body in any way they deem fit. For example, Yogananda’s guru, Sri Yukteswar, could physically transfer disease into his own vehicle.

• Once on a trip to Kashmir, he developed a severe fever and lost half his body weight, while assuming some karmic burdens of his disciples. But he was able to become oblivious to the suffering in his body by escaping to the “superconsciousness” at will.
• It’s not necessary for a master to become physically ill, when they’re healing another person, but sometimes the process relieves the other person’s mind and body.

Needler said the guru can remove a part of the student’s karma, because he knows the rules around karma and how to dissipate somebody else’s karma, because he’s not attracted to it.

• This gives the student a higher starting point, so they can progress faster and farther in their spiritual evolution.
• Roy Eugene Davis was a disciple of Yogananda, who told him: “When you first came to me, God took 50% of your karma. The guru takes 25%. The remaining 25% you have to work out by yourself.”

Davis said the percentages were not meant to be specific, but showed how the guru’s guidance and transmission of spiritual energy could weaken and neutralize much of a disciple’s karma, because he was attuned with the guru’s God-consciousness.

How does the guru/devotee relationship evolve over time?

In “Polishing the Mirror,” Ram Dass described his relationship with his guru, Maharaj-ji, who used a form of bhakti yoga (devotion) that focused on the guru and his blessing or grace. Maharaj-ji was like a magnet of love attracting the students, each of whom had their own unique heart connection with him. He explained:

• At first, all he wanted to do was be with his guru, look at his form, touch his feet, and worship his form.
• After a while, he was fulfilled just being at a distance from his guru.
• A while later, as he went deeper, he didn’t care if he was with his guru’s form at all.
• As he went deeper still, it wasn’t about a man in India any more, it was about the essence of “guruness,” which he began to experience within himself, not as a being external to the guru.

He said now that his guru is no longer alive, he’s still hanging out with his guru, because thoughts and remembrances of him come up a thousand times a day.

“I worshiped his form until I realized his form was just the doorpost and I was just worshipping doorposts. As I looked through that doorway, each surrender led me further in…right back into myself and beyond the form.” – Ram Dass

Dass noted when you’re in the presence of unconditional love, you are in the optimum environment for the heart to open. The moment your heart opens, you’re letting in the flow, where you experience God.

What is the ideal situation?

Needler said at some point, the student needs to become MORE than the teacher, but that generally doesn’t happen. He explained that in the old days of Hinduism and even today, the teacher likes to hang onto the students.

• The teacher becomes physically dependent on them, because they provide for the food, clothing, ashrams, healing and learning centers, universities, etc. around him.
• BUT that limits the students, who believe they can only go up to the level of the teacher.
• The teacher keeps them thinking that you can only get to where you get, if you’re linked in with the guru. And that link continues past the physical death of the teacher’s form, which it does, but it’s still a limitation for the student.

That’s why it takes a special student to become more than the teacher, which is what happened with Paramahansa Yogananda and his master Sri Yukteswar, and with Jesus the Christ and some of his teachers, like the Essenes and John the Baptist. Needler said:

• If a teacher is true and honest, they should remove their dependence on the students. They should allow them to grow beyond the teacher to the point, where the student becomes the new master, who teaches the old master and other people.
• That is a sign of true progression, that allows for continued, sustainable ascension of all people into higher frequencies, rather than a plateauing or a decline in frequencies.

Needler also related a story about Babaji, an ascended master who did a temporary walk-in into the body of a young Indian guru recently to give us this message:

The frequencies are now so high, that you no longer need to do things like kriya yoga to bring your frequencies up. All you need to do is to meditate and become a vegetarian. – Babaji

Final Thoughts

That’s great news! Now we can increase our frequencies on our own. We can be our own guru. We can do this simply by meditating without the need for external gurus, yoga, any rituals and such that were needed in the past.

That means we are progressing, no matter what you may hear from the mainstream media, government, certain channels or doomsayers. The newer generations of children are also here to help raise our frequencies. In reality, we are all here to teach each other in countless ways.

REMINDER: Tomorrow (October 24, 2014) is the Global Oneness Day with over 50 speakers and 50,000 participants at Home – Global Oneness Day 2014. (This event is FREE and the lectures are available for 48 hrs afterwards.)