How to find a Real Guru (Part II)

The First Guru: 

The first Guru that one finds is mother. Mother, the nurturing and protecting, embodies female divine energy. The energy that hurls the human universe around, creates both life and chaos, and in doing so nourishes and protects the one life. 

In conception she embodies the whole, the life, awareness, and she nourishes and protects. Then in birth she hurls, creates chaos, and allows discovering the concept of I and not I. 

The Second Guru: 

And as our 'I' develops, we start facing our second guru: our perception of the 'world around us'. 

When the world reflects us in a million ways, it appears to give and take whatever our 'I' likes to hoard. With this, comes in the cycle of suffering and pleasure, the hijacking of desires and delusions. 

Every interaction, observation, realization that come through the million reflecting mirrors around us help our learning. This Guru comes in the form people whether we relate to them or not, objects around us and every other tangible and intangible perception that we experience through the mirrors around us.

Within this stage of learning from our second Guru, one experience mirrors and therefore Gurus, and one might even find an intimate mirror. That one intimate mirror reflects us the strongest. It brings out our worst and our best. It requires me great courage and conviction to face this intimate mirror.

Both the more intimate a mirror is to me, it will reflect me better and more strongly, and the more intimate I keep my most intimate mirror to me, I will reflected very strongly. 

The experience of facing the most intimate mirror often turns out to be both excruciatingly painful and blissful. 

The Third Guru:

And, when the being has faced the intimate mirrors and is thirsting for more learning, does the need for the third type of Guru arises. 

She is our broadest mirror. She reflects us in our entire glory. She shows us how and why of our second mirror and in doing so helps us break the illusion of 'I' and surrender.

I found my third Guru, and this is where of my journey as I type this. What lies ahead, I do not know. Is there a ahead? Does it even matter if there is a ahead! I have now, right here as I delve in the illusions of 'I' and time.