Silencing of the mind ...

Silencing of the mind : cannot be done in a way crude,

Decide on the Guru that guides towards the truth.

The self absorbsion is an attractive pull.

There, it is easy to stay, get lost in the null

Yet the descent is inevitable, later or soon

Then, pains the unchanged world's rites and rules 

One may, now is blessed, have multiple boons 

But how to fit in, back in the old tunes?

The fresh one yet unassimilated, unglued

Needs conscious ample efforts, to get clues

Otherwise the link gets broken, the seclusion rules!

Certainly not the mandate of the consciousness new.

One can even choose the Divine as the Guru

Complete surrender protects throughout the route...

O Divine! 

Thank you...

December, 2018

The Guru is the Guide in the yoga. When the Divine is accepted as the Guide, He is accepted as the Guru.

The relation of guru and disciple is only one of many relations which one can have with the Divine, and in this yoga which aims at a supramental realisation, it is not usual to give it this name; rather, the Divine is regarded as the Source, the living Sun of Light and Knowledge and Consciousness and spiritual realisation, and all that one receives is felt as coming from there and the whole being remolded by the Divine Hand.  

This is a greater and more intimate relation than that of the human Guru and disciple, which is more of a limited mental idea. Nevertheless, if the mind still needs the more familiar mental conception, it can be kept so long as it is needed; only do not let the soul be bound by it and do not let it limit the inflow of other relations with the Divine and larger forms of experience.

No, surrender to the Divine and surrender to the Guru are not the same thing. In surrendering to the Guru, it is to the Divine in him that one surrenders-if it were only a human entity, it would be ineffective. But it is the consciousness of the Divine Presence that makes the Guru a real Guru, so that even if the disciple surrenders to him thinking of the human being to whom he surrenders, that Presence will still make it effective.

All true Gurus are the same, the one Guru, because all are the one Divine.  
That is a fundamental and universal truth. But there is also a truth of difference; the Divine dwells in different personalities with different minds, teachings, influences so that he may lead different disciples with their special need, character, destiny by different ways to the realisation. Because all Gurus are the same Divine, it does not follow that the disciple does well if he leaves the one meant for him to follow another. Fidelity to the Guru is demanded of every disciple, according to the Indian tradition. "All are the same" is a spiritual truth, but you cannot convert it indiscriminately into action; you cannot deal with all persons in the same way because they are the one Brahman; if one did, the result pragmatically would be an awful mess. It is a rigid mental logic that makes the difficulty but in spiritual matters mental logic easily blunders; intuition, faith, a plastic spiritual reason are here the only guides.

Tne can have a Guru inferior in spiritual capacity to oneself or to other Gurus carrying in him many human imperfections and yet, if you have the faith, the bhakti, the right spiritual stuff, you can contact the Divine through him, attain to spiritual experiences, to spiritual realisation, even before the Guru himself. Mark the "If", for the proviso is necessary; it is not every disciple who can do that with every Guru. From a humbug you can get nothing but his humbuggery. He must have something which works even if he is not in this outer mind quite conscious of its action. If there is nothing at all spiritual in him, he is not a Guru, only a pseudo.  
Undoubtedly there can be considerable differences of spiritual realisation between one Guru and another; but much depends on the inner relation between Guru and sisya. One can go to a very great spiritual man and get nothing or only a little from him; one can go to a man of less spiritual capacity and get all he has to give-and more. The causes of this disparity are various and subtle; I need not expand on them here. It differs with each man. I believe the Guru is always ready to give what can be given, if the disciple can receive. If he refuses to receive or behaves inwardly or outwardly in such a way as to make reception impossible or if he is not sincere or takes up the wrong attitude, than things become difficult. But if one is sincere and faithful and has the right attitude and if the Guru is a true Guru, then after whatever time, it will come.
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Up to now no liberated man has objected to the guruvada; it is usually only people who live in the mind or vital and have the pride of the mind and the arrogance of the vital that find it below their dignity to recognize a Guru.

*Letters on Yoga

Volume 23, pp. 614-620

Obedience is necessary so as to get away from one's own mind and vital and learn to follow the Truth.
In yoga obedience to the Guru or to the Divine and the law of the Truth as declared by the Guru is the foundation of discipline. SA

Flower Name: Dianthus chinensis
Rainbow pink

Significance: Obedience
To learn to obey is good; to obey only the Divine is better.