Qualities That Define a True Sadguru

who is Guru:

• He who teaches us Veda and Vedanta or the six Shastras (systems),
• He, who controls the breath, or
• brands his body with Mudras (metallic marks of Vishnu’s weapons) or
• gives pleasing discourses regarding Brahma.
• he who gives mantras (sacred syllables) to the disciples and
• orders them to chant the same a certain number of times,
• but does not assure them any result in a definite time.
• He who by his spacious wordy knowledge, explains beautifully the Ultimate Principle,
• but has himself got no experience or self-realization is not a Sad-guru.
• How can he, who is himself devoid of self-realization, give it to the disciples?

Who is SadGuru:

• But He, who by his discourse creates in us,
• a distaste for the enjoyments of this world and
• the next, and gives us a taste of self-realization.
• who is well-versed in both the theoretical and practical knowledge (self-realization) deserves to be called a Sad-guru.

• He is never restless nor ruffled.
• He has no pride of his learning.
• The poor and the rich, the small and the great are the same to him.

• A Sad-guru does not, even in his dream, expect any service or profit from his disciples.
• On the contrary, he wishes to serve them.
• He does not think that he is great and the disciple small.
• Not only he loves him, as his son but regards him, as equal to himself or as Brahma.
• The main characteristic of a Sad-guru is that he is the abode of peace.