Reminiscences

An Extrovert mind is like a telescope held reversed

A. sadhaka asked, "Is there the necessity of a guru in attainment of God ?" ShriMaharaj said, "Yes, there is such a nocessity. But which guru is the one that you are referring to ? Lord Dattatreya took twenty - four Gurus.

Ultimately He became His own Guru. We ourselves come in the way of our attainment of God. The sadguru does nothing but teach one to become one's own guru. He turns the mind's attention inwards by getting one to practise namasmarana. He teaches one how to notice one's own faults, by keeping one's faculty of discrimination active. If one holds a telescope in reverse, then a near object appears far away and small. Extroversion is like looking with the telescope reversed. Because of this, God, who is in reality very near, appears to be far away and unattainable."