DEFINING GURUSHAKTI
Many times, I have been asked this question. Guruji, define Gurushakti.
You have to experience it to know it. What is the reason for defining sugar or salt when you have not yet found the power to taste the sugar’s sweetness or saltiness? What sense is there? But I see what is on your mind. You are looking for instant miracles, instant coffee, instant pudding – that is what you are looking for.
If you want the definition of Gurushakti in verbal, analytical terms, you will not find it because it is an indefinable form. It is a form of Grace imparted to you by the powers that represent itself through your beloved one, in our case, your Guru. It is a force and a power that has no mechanics at all. The beauty of it lies in the very factor of it being non-mechanically, without mechanics. It is an inner force imparted in the form of Grace.
Grace has no definition; in all definitions, there is a beginning point and an ending, so you are defining. In defining, you are defining your mental processes to be able to understand them. If you cannot understand God, how can you know Grace, which is Gurushakti?
But through the power that is, you can experience the depth, the Force, the power of Gurushakti.
To find the actual value of Gurushakti comes slowly, gradually but surely, and you start experiencing it yourself. I want it to become permanent in your life, my beloved. Permanently, it must be there.
… Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang US 1987 – 20
