Agreed. The personality is like a magnet, attracting or repeling. It has nothing to do with a teacher's amount of enlightenment. I'd rather follow a guru I liked personally.
--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 5/12/05 5:56 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > On May 12, 2005, at 6:33 PM, Rick Archer wrote: > > > >> on 5/12/05 1:35 PM, Irmeli Mattsson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> > >>> For this kind of guru-disciple relationship to persist, the guru has > >>> to be distant. In a close daily contact the idealization would > >>> collapse rather fast. > >> > >> Honest gurus actually acknowledge this. Ammachi has told followers > >> that if > >> they get too close to her, they may be disillusioned. > > > > What a load of crap. If the teacher is truly enlightened they will find > > ways to reach you even if you are separate...as long as you are > > connected on your end. > > There are numerous stories of Amma doing this. Even initiating people at a > distance. You can read a large and growing collection of such stories at > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AWAKENCHILDREN/. But like every human being on > the planet, she has, or appears to have, a relative personality. All she was > saying, as I understand it, is that if you cling to an idealized conception > of her relative personality, you may find that the real one doesn't match it > if you get too close. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
