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Many people seems to have misunderstood this article. We are adding this addendum to clarify it.
Firstly please note that, although we try to make our articles accessible to the mass, they are mostly intended to guide certain individuals who are at a crossroad right now and are having difficulties to adjust their life because of an increased sensitivity and shift in awareness. Moreover, upon realisation of the need for change, they would feel alienated by the world, and this place is to serve as a guide for their reintegration. It is just a category amongst others, it does not imply any kind of superiority. Everyone has a purpose.
.How do we reconcile the following:
Pledge of Quan Yin: Never will I seek nor receive private, individual salvation; never will I enter into final peace alone; but forever and everywhere will I live and strive for the redemption of every creature throughout the world from the bonds of conditioned existence. The noble Eightfold Path of the Budha: Monks, these two extremes ought not to be practiced by one who has gone forth from the household life. (What are the two?) There is addiction to indulgence of sense-pleasures, which is low, coarse, the way of ordinary people, unworthy, and unprofitable; and there is addiction to self-mortification, which is painful, unworthy, and unprofitable. Avoiding both these extremes, the Tathagata (the Perfect One) has realized the Middle Path; it gives vision, gives knowledge, and leads to calm, to insight, to enlightenment and to Nibbana. And what is that Middle Path realized by the Tathagata…? It is the Noble Eightfold path, and nothing else, namely: right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration. In the Bhagavad-gita, Krishna recommends the guru-disciple system—parampara—as the most reliable means of passing down spiritual knowledge. (Note the emphasis on most reliable, it is by no way the ONLY means) Sri Ramakrishna: all religions ultimately lead to uniting with God And there are plenty more that embroils the Spiritual Seeker in our contemporary world, trying to make sense of it all in this embroilment can be quite exhaustive.
Spiritual Seekers are people having a hard time managing their increase sensitivity, and they feel the need to understand and make sense of the above paragons. Most individual are happy to adopt only what suits them to lead a balance life within the society they live; Spiritual Seekers on the other hand have a hard time trying to reconcile their increased sensitivity with their immediate social environment.
We did not imply in anyway that Gurus of Spiritual leaders are have no use. Their role have changed. See, in ancient times they were the ones who were the intermediaries between humans and the Unseen. As humans became more and more industrialised, their connection with the Unseen lessened. Thus their capacity to receive guidance through intuition and oracles diminished to a point where these aptitudes became to be seen as supernatural, which they are not. However, the need to maintain that connection gave rise to a specific type of individuals, Teacher/ Gurus /Healers /Priest, whatever name you choose to give them, their role was to ensure the what was done Below reflected what was Above. This responsibility entailed a non-action stance in worldly matters. A driver sits at the steering wheel of a bus and does not mingle with passengers, else we crash
The contemporary Gurus and their peers are taking an active role in politics, social and moral reforms, we are not saying that it is wrong or right, it is just the way it is. Definitely they will need followers in order to carry out the task which they have set forth to do and many of them are doing an awesome work in diverse areas. Even fake leaders have their role, they will at least ignite the Spirituality in certain individuals.
Kali Yuga is supposed to accelerate Spiritual evolution towards Singularity; we see it as a period where the maximum of souls have the opportunity to do so. Therefore, it is normal that there be a palette of religion and belief system to match the social, ethnic, class diversities of our world population thus enabling the maximum of individuals to engage towards a Spiritual path.
Our standpoint is that of a Spiritual Seeker, we do learn valuable lessons from contemporary Gurus and Spiritual leaders, but the opportunity is given to every one of us to move closer to Singularity in this Yuga. So, whether we are following a fake or true Guru (and we will meet both types along the journey, in fact we discover a palette of ideologies each emphasising being The Way), Spiritual Seekers are to spend the least time under the influence of another individual. For Spiritual Seekers, now is not the time to judge or compare, it is a time to maximise Spiritual growth by gaining access to Spiritual Laws and learn how to read them.
One last thing, think about it well, if Kali Yuga gives opportunity to precipitate the attainment of Singularity, it also gives the opportunity to precipitate the bonding to Duality which has a retrogressive effect on our Spiritual development.
Peace to all of you.
