Guru Quote by Swami Premodaya

You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.

— Krishna Das

In whosever presence you find peace of mind, devoid of fear, only that person can be your guru.

— Ilaiyaraaja

The purpose of the guru is not to weaken your will. It is to teach you secrets of developing your inner power, until you…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

When we start talking about gurus, first of all we're starting to talk about something that can't be talked about, in the sense that…

— Krishna Das

I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in…

— Ramana Maharshi

One does not become a guru by accident.

— James Fenton

A guru is one who tells you to throw away all the crutches that we have been made to believe are essential for our…

— U.G. Krishnamurti

The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real Guru. All others merely show the way.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I've gone to great lengths not to be a guru. I think the notion of guruhood is utterly pathological, and I couldn't live that…

— M. Scott Peck

The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.

— Chinmayananda Saraswati

When we start to talk about gurus, we're talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were,…

— Krishna Das

A Guru is not someone who holds a torch for you. He is the torch.

— Jaggi Vasudev