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The real Guru may be sought out, may lead a public life, have an institute and may travel to lecture. Or the genuine Guru may feel that their particular forte of knowledge is reserved for those who they come across by chance meeting, interpreted as not necessarily accidental, but brought about by higher guidance. This relationship may be very brief with only that exchange of information which is apropos to the situation.
To gain knowledge and the practice of specific disciplines an official Guru may be necessary. This may include the practices of meditation, yoga exercises, magical rites, disciplines of astral projection, clairvoyance, healing and so on.
In terms of knowledge as distinct from practices, for the genuine seeker an official Guru may not always be necessary. This means that the individual may act as their own Guru. In this case almost anyone meets of knows can substitute as a Guru, as anyone who imparts some kind of knowledge that this seeker needs at some particular point in time. So for instance one may have had the experience of having read a book, and then rereading it some years later discovers that they did not exactly understand it the first time around. Their Consciousness has grown so that on the second reading one has a better understanding. After an interval of even more time a third reading may produce a still better understanding again and so on. Thus the same dynamic applies with one's relationships with teachers. The validity of what is taught is only applicable to what the student is capable of learning at a particular point in time. The novice chess player will be incapable of playing with a master.
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