Spiritual Masters

To learn anything well—in any field of knowledge—it helps to have a good teacher. It's just as true for spiritual life as it is for tennis, piano, physics, or auto repair. This is why all sincere spiritual seekers eventually try to find a guru, or spiritual master.

What are the qualifications of a genuine guru? Why is finding one so important?

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“I am not God; I cannot eat all this. Distribute it. . .” One of the Krishna consciousness society's spiritual leaders tells how he first met his guru.

—a piece of advice that none of us can afford to ignore.

Among the naive, of course, one may pass for a spiritual master by wearing robes and a beard, bearing a twinkle in one’s eye, performin

Can’t I figure everything out myself? What do I need a guru for? Can’t I just read a book and learn that way?

"On the one hand, how could anyone be so stupid as to fall for such crass hucksterism? On the other hand, they sure could. . ."