लच्छ कोस गुरू बसै, दीजै सुरति पठाय I शब्द तूरी असवार है, छिन आवै छिन जाय II
The distance has nothing to do between Guru and his disciple. It is the nearness of the heart that counts. The sun is at a very long distance and yet the sun-flower rejoices as soon as it beholds the sun. The moon is at a very long distance and yet the lotus, the lady-of-the-lake bursts into joy when it sees the moon. The clouds are at a long distance and yet the peacock dances in joy when it sees the clouds. Even so, friends may be separated by a long distance and yet they can be well-united in bonds of friendship and love. Distance is no bar. Gurus and disciples may live in distant places and yet the Gurus may help their disciples by their strong spiritual thought-currents.
"Kabir says, it is said that what you contemplate you become. If we are conscious and aware of the presence of Guru, His presence is a hundredfold more. On the other hand if this awareness of the immediate presence of the source of your inspiration is not consciously, diligently, carefully, patiently, earnestly, sincerely cultivated, then no harvest will come. It is not sufficient for a farmer to just sow the seeds, important as that is. He must follow it up with great labour, unlimited toil, day after day until he reaps the harvest. It requires ceaseless vigilance to protect that which he has sown. It is this awareness that makes one a real follower of the Guru. The essence of discipleship, the essence of being a true follower of Guru, is, therefore, the awareness of His presence–both as an ideal as well as a teaching, both as a light upon the path as well as the path. The Guru never belongs to the past. He belongs to the present as well as to the future. He is ever present. The Guru is never absent. He is never remote. He is always immediate, both in space as well as in time. He is even more immediate in Consciousness that does not relate either to space or to time. He is always there. You are always in it, and it is always within you. It is something that does not need the support of space or time. Therefore, the disciple must cultivate the consciousness of the permanent and perennial presence of the Guru: “He pervades all my life. He prevails throughout my being and throughout the living of my life. He always prevails. He is with me morning, afternoon, evening and night. He is with me wherever I go, not merely when I go to his temple or his Samadhi. I am myself a living temple of his presence, and in and through me he continues to live and to shine. He draws me in the right direction from without, and he urges me in the right direction from within. This, indeed, is the key to true discipleship and to a successful spiritual life. This is the way to obtain the highest and the maximum benefit from that being we call the Guru. This is the inner spiritual truth about the subtle and unparalleled relationship of a sincere seeking soul and the Guru that is sent in order to put the individual soul into contact with the great, eternal, infinite and all-perfect Universal Soul that is at once our origin, our destination and our destiny as well."
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