Love affair between Guru and Chela

You see how this beautiful love affair [between the Guru and the Chela] develops. Stage by stage there is a development. He makes you laugh, he makes you cry, all for a purpose. And the purpose is to bring the chela to the realization that he [the student] is Divine. Until then there is no stopping. Once the bond is formed there is no stopping at all. I’ve said before that physical links might be broken, mental links might be broken, but the spiritual link is never broken. It is picked up life after life if it cannot be completed in this life. There is always another life. The same threads are picked up.
`Gururaj US 80-32
Illustrated by Andersson