What is needed is a Guru, a Savior, who will

awaken us to Bhakti (devotion) and to perceptions of

Truth.

When man finds his Sat-Guru or Savior.

When man understands by his Aparokshajnana (true

comprehension) the nothingness of the external

world, he appreciates the position of John the

Baptist, the divine personage who witnessed

Light and bore testimony of Christ, after his

heart's love, the heavenly gift of Nature, had be-

come developed.

Any advanced sincere seeker may be fortu-

nate in having the Godlike company of some one

of such personages, who may kindly stand to him

as his Spiritual Preceptor, Sat-Guru, the Savior.

Following affectionately the holy precepts of these

divine personages, man becomes able to direct all

his organs of sense inward to their common cen-

ter — the sensorium, Trikuti or Sushumnadwara,

the door of the interior world — where he comprehends the Voice, like a peculiar
"knocking"

sound, [the Cosmic Vibration that is] the Word,

Amen, Aum; and sees the God-sent luminous body

of Radha, symbolized in the Bible as the Forerun-

ner or John the Baptist.

Ganga, Jamuna, or Jordan, the holy streams.

From the peculiar nature of this sound, issuing as

it does like a stream from a higher unknown re-

gion and losing itself in the gross material cre-

ation, it is figuratively designated by various sects

of people by the names of different rivers that

they consider as sacred; for example, Ganga by

the Hindus, Jamuna by the Vaishnavas,* and Jor-

dan t by the Christians.

The 2nd birth.

Through his luminous body, man, believing in the existence of the true Light — the Life of
this universe — becomes baptized or absorbed in the holy stream of the sound. The baptism
is, so to speak, the second birth of man and is called Bhakti Yoga, * without which man can
never comprehend the real internal world, the kingdom of God.

Gurudev