The Teacher only shows you the way, points to your final destination, helps you, guides you, but the journey is yours, the agonies and ecstasies are yours. It is all your commitment to translate his words into your realization. But as you sincerely practice, the Teacher’s energy starts to permeate your body-mind; gradually you start to see things with a new vision, with new meaning altogether. The Teacher-student relationship in spirituality is deeper than any relationship that creates more bondage, attachment and consequent pain. The foundation of this relationship is trans-physical and solely Soul centered. When you reach to your true teacher, most often it is love at first sight, but one should persevere through this emotional surge, and keep the company and be in the presence more and more till the heart, soul, and self join in the melody of saying ‘this is the person who can take me beyond to the other shore!’ There should be no reason to look back any more! Love of the physical Mayic world is beautiful, but Soul to soul love is pure joy, for it strips the soul of all its wrong identifications and wipes the mirror of the illusioned mind clear to reflect the Truth that there is no teacher, no student but only the Presence and Peace in the now-ness.
Bodhi Shuddhaanandaa