Chapter 48: Signs of Sadguru - a podcast by Divine Lineage

Sri Sai Satcharitra: The Wonderful Life of Shirdi Sai Baba, A Modern Rendering of Hemadpant by Monika Penukonda 

If a man utters my name with love, I shall fulfill all his wishes and increase his devotion. If he sings earnestly of my life and my deeds, I shall surround him in front and back and on all sides. Those devotees who are attached to me heart and soul will naturally feel happiness when they hear these stories. Believe me, if anybody sings my leelas I will give him infinite joy and everlasting happiness. ~ Shirdi Sai Baba

From this episode:

He who teaches us the Vedas and Vedanta or the six Shastras (scriptures), he who controls the breath or brands his   body with mudras (sacred symbols), he who gives pleasing discourses regarding Brahman, he who gives mantras (sacred syllables) to disciples and orders them to chant them a certain number of times but does not assure them any result in a definite time, he who by his expansive wordy knowledge explains beautifully the Ultimate Principle, but has himself no experience or self-realization, is not a sadguru. But he who, through his speech, creates in us a distaste for the enjoyments of this world and the next, and gives us a taste of self-realization, who is well-versed in both theoretical and applied knowledge (self-realization), deserves to be called a sadguru. How can he who is lacking in self-realization give it to the disciples? A sadguru does not expect any service or profit from his disciples, even in his dream. On the contrary, he only wishes to serve them. He does not think that he is great and the disciple small. Not only does he love him as a son, but regards him as an equal to him or as Brahman. The main characteristic of a sadguru is that he is the abode of peace. He is never restless or distressed. He has no pride of learning. The poor and the rich, the small and the great, are the same to him. ...

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