Spiritual Quotes on Master - Guru

• A master is one who has become enlightened, but one desire is left. That desire is not a trouble in becoming enlightened — to help others helps to become enlightened. - Osho
   
• The love which the aspirant has for the Master is really the response evoked by the greater love which the Master has for the aspirant; and it is to be placed above all other loves. - Meher Baba
   
• You always choose a guru who will assure you of what you want; therefore, you are not seeking truth, and therefore the guru is not important. You are actually seeking someone who will satisfy you in your desires. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
   
• Liberation is not anywhere outside you. It is only within. If a man is anxious for deliverance, the internal Guru (Master) pulls him in and the external Guru pushes him into the Self. This is the grace of the Guru. - Ramana Maharshi
   
• The Master helps the seeker in his own invincible ways, which have no parallel in the ways of the world. But if the aspirant is to be the recipient of this help, he must make a real effort to surrender himself to the Divine will of the Master. -  Meher Baba
   
• a true master
  can at the most only inspire you
  to live your being…live in your light - Swami Rajneesh
   
• To be close to a master is death, your ego will have to go. The ego thinks, starts thinking, “I must escape before something happens; before I am lost, I must escape.” The ego will continuously tell you to escape. The ego will find rationalizations; it will find faults in me just to help you escape; it will convince you in every way that this is the wrong man. Love is deathlike, and no love is as deathlike as loving a master. - Osho
   
• The Guru (Master) is absolutely necessary. The Upanishads say that none but a Guru can take a man out of the jungle of intellect and sense-perceptions. So there must be a Guru. - Ramana Maharshi
   
• Complete self-surrender and unquestioning love become possible when the disciple comes to have an unswerving faith in the Master. Faith in the Master is an indispensable part of true discipleship. - Meher Baba
   
• Faith in the guru's words. You should depend on his instruction. Do your duties in the world, holding fast to his words, like a person whirling round and holding fast to a pillar. - Sri Ramakrishna
   
• The Master is the very source of purity and to set one's heart on the Master is beginning of self-purification. When the disciple has whole-hearted devotion for the Master, he is opening himself for the reception of the Divine Love which the Master pours on him: and all his weaknesses are consumed in this fire of Divine Love of which he thus becomes the recipient. - Meher Baba
   
• It is not good to be a guru by profession. One cannot be a teacher without a command from God. He who says he is a guru is a man of mean intelligence. Haven't you seen a balance? The lighter side goes higher. He who is spiritually higher than
  others does not consider himself a guru. Everyone wants to be a teacher, but a disciple is hard to find." - Sri Ramakrishna
   
• Being with a Master is never comfortable, because He will break all your limitations, all your ideologies. - Jaggi Vasudev
   
• In the proximity of a great master, the vasanas (Desires) cease to be active, the mind becomes still and samadhi results. Thus the disciple gains true knowledge and right experience in the presence of the master. To remain unshaken in it further efforts are necessary. Eventually the disciple will know it to be his real being and will thus be liberated even while alive. - Ramana Maharshi
   
• The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is. Truth is not a thing that can be caught by the mind. The guru can give you words; he can give you an explanation, the symbols of the mind, but the symbol is not the real, and if you are caught in the symbol, you will never find the way. Therefore, that which is important is not the teacher, it is not the symbol, it is not the explanation, but it is you who are seeking truth. To seek rightly is to give attention, not to God, not to truth, because you don't know it, but attention to the problem of your relationship with your wife, your children, your neighbor. When you establish right relationship then you love truth, for truth is not a thing that can be bought, truth does not come into being through self-immolation or through the repetition of mantras. Truth comes into being only when there is self-knowledge. Self-knowledge brings understanding, and when there is understanding, there are no problems. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
   
• You identify yourself with the body you think that the Guru is also a body. You are not the body, nor is the Guru. You are the Self and so is the Guru. This knowledge is gained by what you call Self-realization - Ramana Maharshi
   
• The word guru is a compound of two words, gu and ru. Gu means darkness and ru means light. That which dispels the darkness of ignorance is called guru. The energy and action of removing darkness are guru. Guru is not a person, it is a force driven by grace. - Swami Rama