Spiritual Guide for Spiritual Awareness

Who is Spiritual Guide

We all got inspired in our live to do some type of practice for Spiritual awareness which could have different purposes, for example it could be for inner peace, problem solving or anything. We also get the mantra, the procedure or process, and also every thing which is required for the spiritual practice. But the question which arises in our mind is that- we don't have a Spiritual Guide, are we elilgible to do spiritual practice? Because of this we can't even start the Spiritual practice.

So the simple question is that whether we can do spiritual practice without a Spiritual Guide or not?

For the answer to this question, we need to understand the importance of the fact that why Spiritual Guide is necessary for us. If we understood this we can easily come to a conclusion that hy we need a spiritual guide for Spiritual awareness

Importance Of Spiritual Guide

Spiritual Guide is the one who teaches about something which we want to learn. He is our guide throughout the journey which we are going to travel. For example, in this case we are talking about sadhna. In spiritual practice, spiritual guide tells us about the basics, rules and procedures which are very important as well as beneficial. He tells us about the do's and don'ts in the process. He is necessary for us to maintain discipline, inspire us and motivate us when we face failure and makes us keeping continue the spiritual journey. He can save us from the demerits of spiritual practice if we have done something wrong (like breaking some rule of the journey, discontinuing inbetween or if we have done something which is in the category of don't in the spiritual rituals).

Spiritual Guide vs Teacher 

We have to clearly understand the difference between a Spiritual guide and a teacher. A teacher is someone who teaches us something. But he didn't take complete responsibility of us for everything in the matter we are learning from him. His role is just to teach you and to make you know about the topic. While the Spiritual Guide is the one who not only teaches us but also take responsibility of us throughout the process. He will never leave us in between the journey.

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It is as per the popular saying, "Agar ishwar ruth jaye to guru hume bacha lenge, par agar guru ruth jaye to hume bhagwan bhi nahi bacha sakta". Means if God becomes angry, a spiritual guide can save us but if spiritual guide becomes angry, the God himself cannot save us.

So it is also the duty of the student to respect his Spiritual guide from heart. This is not only a duty for formality but it is a basic responsibility of the shishya.

Can we do spiritual rituals without spiritual guide for spiritual awareness

It depends on which type of ritual we are doing. If you want to do Gayatri Sadhna (for example), and you are capable of doing it on yourself, means you know the mantra you know the procedure and you have the capability to complete it on yourself, then you can go for it.

But if you want to be connected to a particular panth like aghor panth (Nath sampraday), you need a spiritual guide for sure. This is because as a common person we don't know the rules, basics, procedures, requirements etc of the panth which are mandatory.

Different type of panths:-

1. Nath Sampraday (Aghor panth)

2. Naga Sadhu

3. Satnami panth

4. Varkari Panth
5. Kaul Panth

and many more....

To find a true Guru is a big achievement in itself.