The Learning State

Talk by Smt. Hansaji J. Yogendra

- Hansaji J. Yogendra

A Guru-Shishya(teacher-student) relation is one where one of them has more knowledge and is willing to give it and the other is keen to learn and gain that knowledge. It may also happen that we may reach such knowledgeable persons, but find that they are very closed off and don’t want to give their knowledge to others. I have seen many Guru-Shishya relations where the teacher has to teach something to the student, but he does not teach properly lest the student sits on his head. So the student is kept down. This is a very wrong approach, according to me, because even that knowledge has come to you from somewhere else. A Sutra in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali says that the very first teacher (Guru) is God (