Why today we don't have Gurus like "Two Saints"

A person once asked Ramana Maharishi why he didn't produce a yogi as great as Ramakrishna's Vivekananda. He replied saying that when he gets a student such as Vivekananda he'll create one. A student never chooses the teacher. The teacher chooses the student when he finds that the student is capable enough to be his disciple. It is not a secret that there were individuals among the Swami Vivekananda′s followers, who were imitating the Samadhi realizations… (even among insiders circles).

Ramakrishna, Ramana Maharishi and Swami Vivekananda were probably the last representatives of a traditional understanding of Indian spirituality as a guru. Actually. Ramakrishna did not guide the India as a guru but as an explainer of Advaita Vedanta. Similarly, Swami Vivekananda did not guide the India as a guru but as an explainer harmony of the complexity of Hinduism. In addition, Ramana Maharishi did not guide the India as a guru but as an explainer of Self.

If nowadays anybody is wishing to walk the spirituality path, he/she can read the works of all three masters and start observing and thinking based on read materials. The Romanticism of Indian spirituality is over. The time of authentic personal spiritual experiential knowledge is coming. I don't think it happened by accident that of the millions and billions of people only few people were able to meet a realized saint like Ramana Maharishi or Ramakrishna Paramahansa. Of these, only a small percentage of people were able to realize that they were sitting under a realized soul.

You may have already met a saintly person, yet, you may have never realized it. Instead of attempting to meet a saintly person, keep doing your sadhana regularly and continuously. And one day, you will definitely meet a saintly person and more importantly, you will realize that you are in the presence of a saintly person. The scriptures promises us that When the student is ready the master appears.

There have always been such Saints and will always be there. In fact, it is written that when the last Saint will leave, then this earth will witness apocalypse (Maha Pralay’). Whats my source of such a statement- I know one of them who happens to be the disciple of a legendary Saint himself. Now, if they are there, why are they not known to public? Well, real Saints do not need any of these - money, fame, attraction to opposite gender, acceptance by the society, followers, people vouching for them, etc. etc. But, it in no way means, that Saints cannot function if they any of the above (knowing what qualities do genuine Saints have, is a different topic altogether).

And I know for sure, there are many who have renounced everything and living in a hut made out of stones & wood, not measuring more than 5′ x 7′. Yes, still. And I have been fortunate enough to have seen one. Have witnessed him not accepting money, no matter how much one tries. Not even an extra piece of cloth. He just has two dhotis for summers and maybe 2–3 blankets for winters. And he has been living there for the last 12 years like that. The second part of the question is - whether they are ready to guide or not. The answer is YES again. Why don't they do so? Well, as rightly mentioned,

Sorry to say, but, people who see Saints as those who have had followers, or other things mentioned above, do not really know this concept at all. Do you think when Mahendranath Gupta took Paramahamsa as his guru or when Murugan took Maharishi as his guru, they were known outside a limited circle? And many more people met with Paramahamsa or Maharishi, they all did not take them as gurus. This is like saying now that I know Stephen Hawking is great physicist, I will learn only from him, while one's own capacity is at middle school science.

There is a Guru for all of us, depending on our present state and progress. It is not for us to judge what the Guru has achieved, we can only seek for what the guru can make us achieve. It is easy today to say they were perfect, realized etc. But who knows which Mahan we passed by today ignoring the greatness, which we are incapable of recognizing. I hope to stay humble and keep seeking, if I have not met my guru yet, it simply means he/she, thinks I am not ready for their direct mentor-ship yet. The great Saints mentioned in the post were truly incredible. But, yes, this world still has Saints.

Until then "Gurave sarva lokanam, bhishaje bhava roginam, Nidhaye sarva vidhyanam, Dakshinamurthaye nama" Salutations to Dakshinamurthy, Who is the teacher of all the world, Who is the physician for all diseases,And who is the store house of all knowledge.

"Sadasiva samarambham sankaracarya madhyamam asmad acarya paryantam vande guru paramparam" Salutations to all the Gurus, starting from Sadasiva himself, with Sankharacarya in the middle and continuing on with subsequent Acharyas.

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Vasudeva-sutam devam kaMsa-chANUra-mardanam |

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