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Satguru

Sant or Satguru, is the living embodiment of God, for Life, Light and Love – the three attributes of Godhood – are fully present in Him. He is charged through and through with Sat, or True Life, True Light and True Love. He is a fountainhead of God-hood and Love, and is competent to lead all the aspirants Godward. He is a true guide on the grand road of spirituality. He is a Godman. The contact with God can be established only through His Grace, for no one else can do this. 

The scriptures may tell us much about spirituality, for they constitute a wonderful storehouse of recorded spiritual experiences of ancient sages and seers, but they cannot give us a living touch and an actual experience of spirituality, which may be caught like an infection from the love-laden eyes of a person imbued with spirituality. Just as a lighted candle can light the unlighted candles, so also spiritual life-impulse can be transmitted by a spiritually living person.

He alone lives who is in touch with God within, oh Nanak! All the rest are really dead.

Guru Nanak, Majh War M1

A Godman is truly the mouthpiece of God. God speaks through Saints and Seers, and reveals Himself through His prophets. The nearness of a Living Master is the greatest blessing that one can have. A loving gaze, a kind word from Him, are enough to unlock a thrill of Divine happiness in any human soul. He may at any moment open the floodgates of Spirituality and overwhelm a shriveled soul with the Waters of Life. He is the Bread of Life and the Water of Life, and whosoever partakes of It, enjoys everlasting life and ever after walks in the Light of God.

Christ says:

Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into ever lasting life.

St John 3:14

I am the Light of the world, and he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life.

St John 8:12

But much depends on the simplicity and sincerity of the seeker, his loving devotion and faith and, above all, his receptivity, for he who comes brimful already cannot possibly take in anything else.

The Guru, or the Godman, is the ideal. His body is just a transmitter pole, from which the radioactive waves of Godhood make themselves manifest in the world, and are felt by all who come near that Pole.