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foremost, every seeker must differentiate between a light
guru, or a pseudo guru, and a genuine light and sound
Master, for the two are diametrically opposed. The former
is a guru of the mind, while the latter is a true guru of the
soul. a light guru encourages open battle with the mind,
employing austerities and all forms of denial and renuncia-
tion. light gurus often ask their students to forfeit their
cherished possessions and to leave their homes, and they
usually charge exorbitant amounts of money for their in-
struction. The strategy behind this seems to be the denial of
the mind, in the hopes that spirituality will then somehow
miraculously appear or instantaneously manifest. The illu-
sion and failure of this approach is that wherever you go,
you end up taking the mind with you, for no one can simply
walk away from one’s own mind. secondly, you cannot
purchase your way into the heavenly states of conscious-
ness, no matter how much you financially give or mentally
sacrifice. This would be similar to whipping the donkey
because your car won’t start, and nothing lasting or per-
manent can ever come from this type of mental paradigm.
The Masters of the light and sound discourage any of
the above mental disciplines, and in their place recommend
a spiritual methodology that centers around the soul, for
the soul is the true disciple, not the mind. The Masters in-
sist that you stay with your home, your family, your occu-
pational interests, and all social and economic obligations.
They do not ask you to renounce anything external, only to
begin detaching yourself from any inner dependence you
may have upon these external realities. It is this inner de-
tachment, not the outer renunciation, which is all-important.
Moving to an ashram or a retreat is also a meaning-
less effort to the true Masters, for one’s sacred temple of
worship is situated between one’s own two eyes, not in
some foreign country or remote area of the wilderness.