Nisargadatta on Grace of the guru and his own relationship with Siddharameshwar from Prior to Consciousness:
"Questioner: Would Maharaj talk about the grace of the guru? Maharaj: It is the intensity of the faith you have in the guru's words that is most important; once that is there, the grace flows automatically. The faith in the guru is based on the consciousness from within, faith in one's Self. The love for the beingness I am trying to direct to a higher level. What is lasting is this love for the Self, on which temples have been built. This Christ consciousness is existing; is it faith in a man? As a man, Christ was crucified, but that universal consciousness which was his lives today. ... Since I have found my true permanent state I have no need for any of this, so I am just waiting to go. In that state of fullness there is no need at all. I have had this state of fullness after I met my guru; if I hadn't met my guru I would have lived and died as a man. My association with my Guru was scarcely for two and a half years. He was staying some 200 kilometers away, he would come here once every four months, for fifteen days; this is the fruit of that. The words he gave me touched me very deeply. I abided in one thing only: the words of my Guru are the truth, and he said, "You are the Parabrahman. No more doubts and no more questions on that." Once my Guru conveyed to me what he had to say I never bothered about other things - I hung on to the words of the Guru." http://www.prahlad.org/gallery/nisargadatta/books/Nisargadatta%20Maharaj%20-%20ebook%20-%20Prior%20to%20Consciousness%20-%20searchable.pdf
