Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

It allows you to be open to your own truth. What
do you know with complete certainty? Don’t you see,
this has plowed the field of your mind to be free of all
conceptual weeds and allows space for your own truth,
verbal or non-verbal to sprout and grow.
At the deepest level you need to trust the guru—if
you are to follow that path—with your life. You turn
everything over to him or her. You see he only wants
your freedom and exalts in your success every time
you break a little freer; whether from a sickened
family situation, to freedom from some guru or guru-
teachings which are not helping you.
The guru/chela relationship is extremely close,
personal, and painful for both the teacher and the
student.
On of my students; her way started in Christianity
and about three years ago she discovered Robert. She
listened to him, every talk, many, many times over a
period of about a year. She listened to all 245 talks
many times, and even listened to them through the
night on her Ipod Nano. She practiced self-inquiry
incessantly.
The result; she became suicidal. Her whole world
had lost its juice and she saw the emotional poverty of
her life locked in a loveless marriage. This made her
even more depressed. At that point we became closer