The Internal Guide - 04.22.10

Student Question: In one’s quest for liberation, one requires a spiritual guide; it’s imperative and can’t be overemphasized. But when does it come into a stage when the student no longer requires the guide?

“When the student has internalized the teachings, and has purified the unconscious mind so that his or her own mind no longer deceives him/her,” answers Shunyamurti, the spiritual guide of the Sat Yoga Institute. The initial problem is that the ego is in denial of its own split consciousness, between the conscious and unconscious mind as well as other fragments. And after the guru-disciple relationship, and there is “a realization of the totality, a point is reached when the purification of the individual soul is at such a degree of clarity and purity of perception and accuracy that there is no longer a disturbance or a distortion in the field. And at that point, there is no longer an obstacle internally to the realization of the Self.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, April 22, 2010.