Introduction
THE PERFECT RELATIONSHIP the title alone has a spiritual vibration, a spanda that for centuries has bestowed blessings upon countless seekers and guided them to the highest goal. The word 'Guru' embodies the highest attainment in life -supreme love and profound bliss. Moreover in Baba Muktananda's words, "No one can give you love as the Guru can. The love that you experience in your mundane life is petty and short-lived. A petty love has a short life span, and when this love departs, hatred arises. But nothing can equal the elixir of the Guru's love."
Baba Muktananda was such a Guru, and his love for his own Guru, Bhagavan Nityananda inspired countless devotees. This profound Guru-disciple relationship is once again portrayed between Baba and his disciple and successor, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda. Who can speak to us about this relationship better than Gurumayi - she was and is the ideal disciple. She is a great Sadguru. Being a disciple she walks the path with us, and being the Guru she is our goal.
In her book My Lord Loves a Pure Heart, Gurumayi says, "One of the reasons the great ones can love everyone equally is that they have no selfish interest. They don't desire anyone's wealth or anyone's body or anyone's wife. There is nothing they want and they want for nothing. In this state it is possible to love everyone, because you have no regrets, you have no anger and you have no fear. So you are able to
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