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Universe is full of
false preceptors
“The
Universe is full of false preceptors. Overly clever, they
surround themselves with selfish pleasures and bestow their
‘grandiose’ teachings upon the unwary. Prematurely
publicizing themselves, intent upon reaching some spiritual
climax, they constantly sacrifice the Truth and deviate from
the real spiritual path. What they really offer the Universe
is their own confusion.
In the Universe as at present
there are plenty of people masquerading as Gurus, due
to sheer ignorance or in a deliberate attempt to deceive the
gullible. Hence it is essential for the aspirant to be very
sure of the person, before he accepts and accolades him as
his Guru. There are some who profess to be Gurus,
and are ardent worshippers of some deity or other. These
people may even get or cause to get their deities of choice
to manifest and thereby exhibit siddhis -occult powers, such
as levitation, walking on water, seating on ice for hours,
being immune to pain, appearing certain objects, walking on
fire, becoming invisible, etc.”
False Gurus And Siddhis (prodigyweb.net.mx)
“There
are hundreds of false Gurus all over the World. In
India, many pseudo-leaders are guiding people astray. Some
appear to people as saintly persons by performing
unbelievable miracles, despite the fact that many Great
Souls, such as Buddha, declared: "Seeing the drawback to the
miracles of psychic power and telepathy, I feel horrified,
humiliated, and disgusted with the miracles of psychic power
and telepathy. The only miracle that a person should
practice, is the miracle of instruction." Some others -false
Gurus- are surrounded by riches and luxury; despite
this fact, these ‘teachers’ usually attract many followers
into their environment, leading them to spiritual chaos.
What these false preceptors really offer the World, is their
own ignorance and confusion.
Also
there is another great problem, because if you pray to a not
fully realized ‘spiritual master,’ or if you pray to the
saint or deity of its choice, then you create an energetic
-spiritual- connection with them, merging into their energy
-into the spiritual status of that deity or ‘preceptor.’
Some of those deities or ‘teachers,’ have a low spiritual
status, so as time goes by, through righteous actions, you
can evolve to higher spiritual stages and as you move closer
to the spiritual status attained by those deities, some of
them might become jealous of your spiritual progress,
blocking your spiritual path. Those deities are attached to
their senses, they are not free from their emotions
-jealousy, anger, hatred, egoism, envy, etc.. In this era -Kali
Yuga- anyone can evolve higher than any of those
deities, such as saints, boddhisattvas and devas.
You usually think that these deities or ‘preceptors’ are
fully realized souls, mainly because they are endowed with
countless siddhis -occult powers- giving sight to the
blind and curing the sick by will, appearing and
disappearing certain objects also by will, etc. Possession
of siddhis, however, is not the test to declare the
greatness of a sage or a deity, or to prove that any of them
have attained Self-realization. A real Guru does not
exhibit miracles, or any kind of miraculous powers.”
Indian Mystics (prodigyweb.net.mx)
“I
will give you some general guidelines for evaluating whether
a person as a true or false Guru.
The main difference between a true and a false guru is that
a true guru will always work to set you free, whereas a
false guru will seek to bind you to the guru. A true guru
has no need to bind you or to receive energy from you,
because the true guru can receive all the energy he needs
directly from above. A false guru cannot receive energy
directly from the spiritual self, so he must steal that
energy from his followers.
It is important to keep in mind that human beings have a
tendency to look at things from a black and white
perspective. For example, many people look at a person who
is giving forth spiritual teachings and find one little
thing about those teachings that they believe is wrong. Then
they immediately label that person as a false guru and
reject everything he says. This is an unbalanced approach.
My definition of a false guru is a person who is
deliberately and willingly trying to deceive people and take
them away from the true path to God.
As we move into the Aquarian age, more and more people will
attain direct communion with the spiritual realm. More and
more people will openly admit that they have such communion
and they will, as a natural part of their personal growth
process and the growth process of humankind as a whole,
publicize the teachings they receive through their personal
communion. This is part of a process that we of the Ascended
Host support and inspire.
Whenever you move into a new spiritual phase, there is
always a process of experimentation. This experimentation
can be somewhat chaotic, and it is inevitable some people
make mistakes or receive teachings that are incorrect or
incomplete. However, a person has a right to experiment, to
make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes.
If you are true seeker, you will not simply reason that
because a person has made one mistake, meaning that the
person might have brought forth a teaching that is not
entirely correct, then that person is a false guru. In many
cases, people are sincerely striving for communion with the
spiritual realm and they are doing the best they possibly
can, given their present state of consciousness. We of the
Ascended Host encourage all people to increase their
communion with the spiritual realm. We do not require people
to be perfect before attempting to have such communion.
Therefore, we do not expect or demand that people should
never make a mistake. I encourage all true seekers to do the
same.
You must also understand that although there truly are false
gurus, who deliberately seek to deceive people, this does
not mean that you should condemn yourself for having
followed such a false guru. You see, even a false guru will
give forth certain true teachings, and you might have
followed that guru because you recognized the truth of those
teachings.
What I am trying to explain here is that as a seeker on the
path you have to accept the fact that whatever you do is a
product of your state of consciousness. If you decided to
follow a certain guru, then that decision was the best you
could possibly have done, given the state of consciousness
you had at the time. If you have now attained a higher state
of consciousness, a stronger personal discernment, and
realize that the guru you have followed is indeed a false
guru, then do not condemn yourself for making a mistake.
The path is a gradual process. You start at a certain level
of consciousness and you make decisions based on that state
of consciousness. Hopefully, those decisions will help you
grow. When you attain a higher state of consciousness, you
can make better decisions. This does not mean that your
previous decisions were wrong or that you should condemn
yourself for making those decisions. If you are a sincere
seeker, you are always doing the best you can, given your
current state of consciousness and you are always striving
to raise your level of consciousness. No one can expect
more. Therefore, do not condemn yourself for decisions made
in the past. Instead, rejoice that you have now attained a
higher state of consciousness and then use that state of
consciousness as the springboard for further growth.”
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