Divyatman,
Human beings always live with a misconceived notion that it is impossible to get God's guidance or a Guru in physical form to provide ready guidance in the spiritual path.
In this notion, several births are wasted.
On the contrary, we have to be convinced about the goal. Once we are convinced about the purpose of our birth and are sincere to find a master to guide us, we will find that the master is just there, at our door step, ready to hold our hand and teach us the Brahma Jnana.
In the path of Jnana, the spiritual seeker has to necessarily complete the 4 qualifications, known as sadhana chatushtaya, and once he completes this 4 qualifications, then the super abundance of God consciousness just envelops him and he finds the preceptor, the Guru, then and there.
1) Viveka- Discrimination between right and wrong.
2)Vairagya- Dispassion towards wrong, after one has discriminated between right and wrong.
3) Shad sampath- 6 virtuous qualities which can be covered later on, If Swami wills.
4)Mumukshatva- Intense craving for Attaining God/ liberation.
If a seeker qualifies in the above four, the divine law of nature acts in a way that the seeker gets a guru and then steadily progresses towards the goal. It has to happen!.
This is satyam,truth. Our shrutis proclaim this and realized masters 's life stands testimony for the above.
Love
