जेहि खोजत ब्रम्हा थके, सुर-नर-मुनी अरु देव I कहैं कबीर सुन साधवा, करू सतगुरू की सेव II
A child cannot be born without a father and a mother. Clothes cannot be washed without water. There can be no horseman without a horse. So, without a Guru, none can reach the court of the Lord. It is said that to get a human body is a rare thing in itself, but to get a human body and be spiritually aware is even greater. However, to be spiritually aware and find a Guru is the greatest blessing a human being can have. The Guru doesn’t bring about Self Realization. He or she merely removes all the obstacles to it, taking you to the doorway of Self Realization—your human “freewill” demands that you take the final step alone. The Guru lies within you like a mirror of your own self, to remind you of all the things you have forgotten. Just as a man cannot see his back, so also he cannot see his own errors. He must live under a Guru for the eradication of his evil qualities and defects. Sadguru is an enlightened being whose life's purpose is to guide an aspirant on the spiritual path, the summation of which is the realization of the Self through realization of God.
"Kabir says, the quest of God Realisation is on since time immemorial. But it is incomplete without a Guru, for he is verily a link between the individual and the Immortal, has a free and unhampered access to both the realms. He stands, as it were, upon the threshold of immortality; and bending down, he raises the struggling individuals with his one hand, and with the other lifts them up into the empyrean of everlasting joy and infinite Truth-Consciousness. The Guru is truly the gateway to Liberation."
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