Most infuential person in your life that you dont know

[Balanbam00]

Bongo : Such is the life of one taking the spiritual path It has been said .....

When a vehement desire for emancipation wakes up in a person, he or she attains his or her sadguru [true spiritual preceptor] on the strength of that desire.

[birminghamborn]

***y Sadie, what have you done, you made a fool of everyone.

[bongosdad]

I know people mock stuff like this Balanbam but I honestly feel understanding consciousness and take it to a collective higher spiritual level should be the next step in our evolutionally development.

[dazzyo-villa]

Richard ashcroft - Lead singer of Verve..

Coming of age his lyrics hit places nothing else would and really made me think about things in a different way.

not really a spiritual type so Rock stars are my type of influential people.

[Balanbam00]

Bongo:
How can you know if someone is truly a guru? What is a Sadguru?

In Sanskrit, gu means “darkness”, and ru means “one who dispels”. So guru literally means “one who dispels the darkness.” And Sadguru is that guru who dispels the darkness from all three strata of human existence – the physical sphere, the psychic sphere, and the spiritual sphere. Literally, Sadguru means “the guru who leads one to Sat, the Unchangeable Entity.” In other words, the highest spiritual guru. So not every guru is Sadguru.

Now, a very important point: His desire for His created beings is entirely benevolent – He only wishes the liberation of all from suffering. So when the time is right – when a person’s mind becomes restless with the mundanities of the world; when they intensely desire to know the limitlessness within themselves; when they are well and truly ready – He appears in the form of Sadguru and guides them along the spiritual path. He teaches them how to move towards the Supreme Conscio

[birminghamborn]

We gave her everything we owned just to sit at her table
Just a smile would lighten everything
***y Sadie she's the latest and the greatest of them all

[bongosdad]

I remember Kinky Kate but not sure who ***y Sadie is BB? Im trying to work out your cryptic messages!?

Interesting stuff balanbam and didn't know all that. With me its about listening to a guru I can connect with and I think that's more of a personal thing. My problem with some of the gurus are that they are so hard to follow and understand.

[birminghamborn]

Well here's another clue for you all, the Walrus was Paul!

[McVillan79]

Bongo:
In the West people have a tendency to think they don’t need a guru. But there are many types of gurus in everyone’s lives: parents, teachers, grandparents, mentors. Just as it helps to learn various skills from different kinds of teachers, it also helps to learn spirituality from the appropriate teacher. Indeed this is especially important for spirituality, because of its intrinsically subtle and elusive nature. Hence the need for the highest and most capable guru.

I'm pretty sure many enthusiastic Christians would describe the above as a priest.

The term guru implies, to me at least, that they hold (or people believe they hold) some higher knowledge like the meaning of life or something. A bit like a priest, without the guilt and promise of life after death obviously.

Most cultures will have their own version of a guru, they'll just call it by a different.

[bongosdad]

I might become a guru.