When
I accepted my Master’s unconditional friendship, he said: “Will you give me the
same unconditional love?” He gazed at me with childlike trust.
“I
will love you eternally, Gurudeva!”
“Ordinary
love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is
without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human
heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.” He added humbly,
“If ever you find me falling from a state of God-realization, please promise to
put my head on your lap and help to bring me back to the Cosmic Beloved we both
worship.”
It was only after we had made this spiritual
pact that I began to understand fully the significance of a guru to a disciple.
I never found complete satisfaction, comfort, and God contact until I attuned
myself with unconditional loyalty and devotion to the divine consciousness of
my Guru.
Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda
