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Last post I asked you to put yourself in the shoes of the farmer having a lila with his guru. This post I’m asking you to put yourself in the shoes of the guru.

See the previous post for context.

Say, from the awareness state, that this guru really loves this man. He can feel, from love, how to guide this man. The guru has a kind of knowing. It may not be

explicit, but the guru trusts these feelings, and he trusts what he says and does from them. He never *thinks* about them at all. The information he needs

will arrive for him, and his conduct in these moments is spontaneous and clear, charged entirely by absorption in love and being.

Say that the guru likes to say "When you serve god, god serves you" and that GOD = Pure Awareness = Love. These ways of working with people are the most

profound. These dynamics are never obvious ahead of time. To a being like this guru, the seeds have been planted, and he can feel the way

that causes and conditions have already been met. THe future has not always taken shape yet, but when it has, the guru can often sense it.

Time is not experienced linearly, but rather dramatically. Just like we can have a "bad feeling" about a situation before something happens,

The cover of Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba.

this guru walks around knowing the informational field of all beings, the heart of beings, the conversations of people, the thoughts and feelings

and dramas. He loves everyone but he can only work with people he is meant to, as the time arrives.

Just like we know if a ball is dropped it will fall. He can know what he knows, and yet he chooses to involve himself in these dramas. This is the real

love. The willingness to be part of it all. To put himself into what will be, for the benefit of others. To involve himself.

The lessons here are so plentiful if you go look.

It is in the looking that the hidden can be uncovered, layer by layer. Simply ask, "why was this the most loving thing to do," and see what you can feel.

It is called guru yoga.

— Thomas Whigham · originally posted on Facebook

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