Relationship of God and Guru
Relationship of God and Guru In our scriptures and also in the world three kinds of situations are written about and described… In our scriptures and also in the world three kinds of situations are written about and described. In some places it is written that God is the greatest. It is also written that God and Guru are equal. It is also written that the Guru is greater than God. An ordinary person, who reads the scriptures on his own cannot understand which of these three is correct and so he becomes confused. I am now going to reconcile these three. These three statements are, in fact, correct. But they contradict each other – how then could they all be correct? In the scriptures it is written that God is the greatest, so this point is certainly correct (Shvetashvatara Upanishad 6/8, Gita, 11/45, Bhagwatam, 3/2/21 and 2/4/40). All these verses say that there is no one, nor will there ever be anyone equal to God – so someone being greater than God is completely out