The Sacred Bond: Understanding the Guru-Disciple Relationship - Swami Chinmayananda
========================================================================================= Sunday 19, July 2026, 05:00. Article The Sacred Bond: Understanding the Guru-Disciple Relationship - Swami Chinmayananda. =========================================================================================== Think for a moment: Is there anything that we do well today with confidence or any amount of mastery that has not been taught to us? If for every perfect act in the world, in any activity, we need the guidance of an instructor, we can very well understand the need for a Guru in the spiritual path; for there we have to deal with the subtlest forces and the enormous confusions of the vehicle called the mind, and with its moods called delusions. The Guru-disciple relationship is unavoidable. Every great master has been under the guidance of a teacher. It is not true to say that we can reach the goal just through books. A teacher is necessary, but we have to understand this very ...