The Personalities of Guru Disciples

The Personalities of Guru Disciples: When Devotion Becomes Distortion To sit near a realized being is one of the great privileges of a human life. Amm...

The Personalities of Guru Disciples: When Devotion Becomes Distortion To sit near a realized being is one of the great privileges of a human life.

Amma, Anandamayi Ma, Yogananda, Mother Meera, Neem Karoli Baba, Ramakrishna - these figures radiated or still radiate a divine presence so luminous it destabilizes everyone around them.

That destabilization is not a flaw - it is the point. Gurus provoke, trigger, and expose the ego. But what emerges in the disciples is not always grace.

More often, it is a fascinating spectrum of personalities - some tender, some brittle, some strangely distorted. Disciples are mirrors of how the human psyche copes with radiance.