Yoga and the Quest for the True Self by Stephen Cope

Author:Stephen Cope
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2018-04-17T04:00:00+00:00

The Guru is one who at all times abides in the profound depths of the Self. He never sees any difference between himself and others and is quite free from the idea that he is the Enlightened or the Liberated One, while those around him are in bondage or the darkness of ignorance….There is no difference between God, Guru, and the Self.10

The true seers of ancient yogic lore, like most of the great Western saints, are thoroughly human, and though they may have some extraordinary powers, they still most often seem eccentric in some ways, and completely ordinary in others. Real gurus are, like the Skin Horse, invisible to the ordinary naked eye. Their own inner magnificence and splendor can only be seen by the eye of the true seeker, who is capable of peering beneath the surface of gross apparent reality. The outward polish has long since been worn off, but the inward glow of truth is real and abiding.

By the time Susan left the shop after her year’s internship, she had begun to acknowledge who her true teachers were. It takes time to adjust to a radically new way of experiencing life, the self, and others. But for Susan there was great power in her understanding that she had been initiated into the Real by those of us in the community who cared about her and loved her for her vulnerabilities as well as her strengths. She discovered that true seers are almost always hiding out in ordinary circumstances.

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