was very profound. In his own way, his way was to shock people into understanding. He

said that when you want to be initiated by a Guru, you should go there with total surrender

to the Guru. Otherwise, the initiation will never take place. Otherwise, you will keep

your ego intact and then the Guru will not be able to get into your consciousness. A

partial surrender, he says, is not going to help. You have to be completely completely

surrendered to the Guru. Then the Guru can enter into your consciousness.

The student has to really give themselves up to the Master. Then everything can happen.

And if you go there with demands upon the Guru or you go there trying to shop around

or trying to see the guru -- if this is really the right person or not, then nothing is going

to happen. It's not that you should not shop around; I personally suggest that you should

shop around. Otherwise there are so many people who are calling themselves ... avatars and

enlightened people, and who knows who is who. So, to some extent ,you should go and shop

around. But then once you are settled on a Guru, then all doubt should come to an end.

Then you should have complete surrender.

And when you surrender then everything happens. You don't even have to be even physically

present. The Guru can think about you from a remote place and then transfer all his power

to you.

For instance, there is the story about Adi Shankara: The guru gives his lessons to 4

disciples. Three are very intelligent and one is a very dumb guy. One day he was going

to teach a very difficult subject. So he found that the dumb devotee was missing, and so

he asked 'where is Krodeka?" "Oh, we don't know where he is..." That's how the three

disciples answered the master.

The Master knew what was going on in the minds of the disciples. They were thinking, "why

is he waiting...that dumb guy is not going to understand anything about this lesson."

But Shankara was insistent and said " we are not going to start the class until Krodeka

comes." He saw in his third eye what Krodeka was doing: Krodeka was washing the Master's

clothes in the river. So he blessed him. And that was an initiation. He completely transferred

his knowledge to Krodeka. After an hour, Krodeka came and then as he came to join the group,

he was glowing. There was a great light around him that was irresistible. Even these three

other disciples stood up and bowed down to Krodeka, because they saw the power and the

wisdom in Krodeka.

This is an example of true initiation. It is a very sacred relationship between the

Master and the disciple