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The True Master Is Your Own Holy Presence

2019-09-02|Watch on YouTube

True spiritual mastery lies not in seeking external gurus but in recognizing and surrendering to your own divine inner presence.

What is a Master actually. A Master is just that which is pointing you to your formless Reality, to your timeless spaceless Reality. What is the voice which is doing that? That is the voice of your intuitive Presence. So in the world what happens is that, those seeming expressions, those dream characters which are appearing to you, which seem to be pointing you to your formless Reality, your timeless Reality, that, out of reverence and gratitude to that voice we revere the instrument which the voice is using and we call that the ‘Master’. But that is not the true Master. We can have the gratitude for the expression or the form and we can have some trust and devotion to that form, to the extent that we listen and we follow what is being shared. But that expression is just like an alarm clock in your dream. So you can be grateful to the alarm clock for waking you up [Smiles] but really the true Master, the true voice where all of this is coming from is your own holy Presence, is your own divinity.

Key Teachings

  • The true master resides within you—your own holy presence is the ultimate teacher
  • External teachers can only point the way; the actual realization happens through your own being
  • Turning inward to recognize your sacred inner nature is the essence of the direct path
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From: The Three Conditions to Self-Realisation - 2nd September 2019