If we develop the giving spirit, so much happens to us. Our own personalities get transformed because when you give you become charitable. That is a great virtue. When you become charitable you become kind another great virtue. When you become kind you become compassionate. When you have compassion in you, you develop greater and greater sympathy. When you develop that sympathy you would feel the problems of the person and that very sharing of someone else’s problems can lighten your own problems, too, as well as lightening the problems of the person concerned. So, with the small idea of giving, all these great virtues get developed in us spontaneously, without awareness. And is that not life, really?
~Gururaj US 81-38

To serve the guru, be worthy of the teachings of that guru. That’s the best way, nothing else. Be worthy of the guru’s teachings, not by constant theorizing, (although it helps to understand things,) but rather through the practical aspects of life. The human being, because of problems within himself, and because of the lack of integration of mind, body, and spirit, goes through suffering. Then great teachers come along. It is their duty, their dharma, to show how to restore the balance between mind, body, and spirit. When a person understands that, then does he truly understand the meaning of the words, “I am the Way, I am the Truth, I am the Life.
~Gururaj US 80-15