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Online Satsang with Jeffrey Carr
August 19, 2019 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Jeffrey Carr, Senior AMS Teacher
Satsang & Reading from US 80-17:
Gururaj Ananda Yogi
The Inner and Outer Guru
Monday, August 19th, 2019
8 – 9 pm East Coast Time
7 – 8 pm Midwest Time
5 – 6 pm West Coast Time
ZOOM MEETING ID: 705-079-634
Excerpt from the Inner and Outer Guru; the Mark of the True Teacher
Gururaj Ananda Yogi:
One must always listen to the inner guru. But how many have found this inner guru? The inner guru can only be found if that total stillness is found within, through meditation and spiritual practices. Then only can that voice of silence be heard. Otherwise it might just be your imagination running amuck. It could be thought processes that are coming through your mind, which have been previously conditioned. This is the surest way of being deluded and of being involved in illusions. So, only when we have found the inner guru, perhaps not even through total integration, do we have the right to say that we listen to the inner guru.
The ability to listen to the inner guru, to the spirit within yourself, is ability given to very few people. It is something that has to be strived for. It is something by which the patterned mind, that sends forth thoughts through the conscious mind, is listened to. If anyone here can tell me that every decision they have made has always been a right decision, a goodly decision, a godly decision, in any matter whatsoever, then he might have had some glimpse of the inner guru. But that is not (usually) the case.
Many times, people speak about the voice of conscience. What (is) conscience? What do we know about conscience? We only (have knowledge) of the experiences that are stored in our memory box, opposing experiences, and from that, through an analytical process, we come to the conclusion that my conscience tells me this (or that). So, (conscience) is the product of your own personal mental experience. Now this is not totally wrong, because you might have had a good experience at some time and a bad experience (another time), (which are) the opposites in the world of polarities. Therefore, your mind is conditioned by the thoughts of the good experience, and so your conscience will do right. Your conscience will dictate to you what is right and what is wrong, based upon the experiences that you have had. This is fine, but how many people have that discriminating ability? How many people can say that their good deeds, (committed) over these thousands of lifetimes, have been mostly good deeds, and (that their) bad deeds were very few, so that they therefore are equipped to decide, answer and solve the problem that is at hand?
So, when the inner guru is awakened, you do not need the outer guru. It is because we need the outer guru that we get assembled here, for example. We need to be told, we need to be taught, and we need to be guided, and the guidance or the teachings we take are dependent upon the awareness we have developed. In the full realization of the inner guru, you have the awareness to be able to see not only as far as the wall, but behind the wall as well. This (awareness) does not come from an analytical process, but it comes from an intuitive level, (and from) a level that is even beyond intuition; (it comes) from the realm of the spirit, which is the inner guru. And in that awareness, you’ll have no more questions, for all is realized, and questions cease. The very act of a question is the act of search, and when you have found, you do not need to seek anymore.
We seek because we are not functioning in totality. We seek because we (do not have) the total awareness. We first seek and inquire to gain mental knowledge, and we then use that to dive deep within ourselves. The seed has been planted, and then we go beyond the analytical aspect of ourselves to reach that area, that dimension, where our own awareness gives us all the answers. That is the surface value of awareness. In the deeper level of awareness, there are no questions and no answers. You just know.
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