It is very difficult to understand how and why the jiva looks for emancipation. The daily life of a child, adolescent, youth, a middle aged, or an old man for that matter, is always to go out in the morning and return home for rest in the evening. A person opens the door in the morning and closes it at night before going to bed. This is our common understanding. All the life of the jiva is oriented to some learning to eke out a living and look for entertainment between work and rest. This routine is common. When the jiva finds it futile to struggle for existence it looks for redemption and looks for some guidance. A guru comes to help only when the jiva ardently cries for one. Since God cannot personally come, He sends a person to help the jiva. The Guru is just a means and not an end! In fact, the guru serves as a yajnya kunda, a burning pot, where the jiva sheds all its karma klesha and becomes pure.
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