Who should be your Guru?
Your Inner Self should be your Guru. Inner self keeps guiding you at every stage of life but since the fickle and unstable mind is preoccupied with numerous thoughts you cannot hear your Inner self. To reach and be able to hear your Inner self you may need an external Guru, a Guru in physical form who can help you reach your Inner self. You must surrender to such Guru through unequivocal faith and get help in invoking your Inner self.

- Shri Ramesh Jain

‘I never had any faith in anybody as a guru. After interacting with you and overcoming hurdles if life I feel I found a guide, a friend and a companion in you. Whenever I need guidance, I remember you and in no time I get some solution from within. I do not know what state is this but a learned man recently told me that your inner self has been invoked and that is guiding you. Please continue to have your grace on me Ramesh bhaiji.

 

Q: Should we have only one guru or we can have many gurus?

A: Your main Guru should be your Inner Self (inner conscience or inner guru) and obviously the inner Guru can be only one but in the external world you can have several gurus. Whoever liberates you from ignorance, gives you higher knowledge, good advice and from whom you can learn life and spiritual lessons can be your guru. Lord dattatreya had 24 Gurus. He said

‘I have taken shelter with twenty-four gurus: the earth, air, sky, water, fire, moon, sun, pigeon, python; the ocean, moth, honeybee, elephant, the deer, the fish, the prostitute Pingala, the kurara bird (Hawk), the child; the young girl, arrow maker, serpent, spider and the wasp. My dear King, by studying their activities I have learned the science of the self.’

If you keep your mind open and sincerely seek the company of an enlightened Guru, you will come across a Guru suitable to you.

Always be simple, pure and courteous and have faith in your guru. In the company of a real guru your mind will always feel calm, relaxed and composed. When you remember him you feel ecstasy and get automatic answers to your questions. Even though you may have many questions to ask but when you are face to face with your guru you may go blank. These are some of the guiding factors to know that you are in the right company and in the company of an enlightened guru. Everyday pay your reverence and offer gratitude to your Guru as he can invoke your inner self and open the gates to your enlightenment.