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 Saturday 01 August 2026

HALLMARK OF DISCIPLESHIP

Swami Sivananda

The ideal disciple always tries to superimpose upon himself the noble qualities found in the Guru, his ways and aptitudes while subordinating one's own personal predilections that might be motivated by egoism and selfishness. The disciple is more apt at imbibing the common human foibles of the Guru rather than the vast treasures of his great qualities. He who has a genuine aspiration need not wait for the teacher to appear by himself but should go on seeking and earning from whatever source truth would unfold itself. The grace of Guru alone is the cause of attainment of Brahma-jnana or Self-knowledge. Contd…


To look upon the Guru as a person and then to judge him as you judge anybody else in the world, and to take his word or not to take it from your own point of view, would be to cut the ground from under your own feet.

- Swami Krishnananda

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