Swamiji was once questioned by a member in a discourse, “Maharishi, why are you against the practise of members touching your feet and prostrate in front of you?”
Bejewelled with the disciples' unique simplicity, Swamiji started explaining.

“A wrong belief that by touching and prostrating to Guru’s feet, sins will dissolve, and the individual’s soul will be cleansed, is widespread amongst people, therefore people are keen in touching feet.

Endowed with sixth sense, humans should have rational thinking and conscious reasoning in all deeds. An individual is born out of the co-mingled energies of a father and mother. Until the individual realises the purpose of birth, his/her life will be diverted and sprayed with obstacles and sufferings. The mental energies are utilized for gratification of ever-mounting desires leading to hasty decisions, unpleasant consequences, eventually gathering sin imprints. Human mind is always BOUNDED OUTWARDS because of which TURNING INWARDS becomes a strenuous task, yet there should be a way to lead the mind towards the depth of consciousness, which becomes possible through the process of INITIATION.

Initiation means Purification, with the merging of the intellectual energies of the GURU, who is conscious of the Super-Consciousness state, an individual’s narrowed consciousness will be streamlined towards realising the purpose of birth. Initiation is rebirth in an individual’s life where his mental energies are directed to realise the SELF, with the strength of the Guru’s life force. A self-realised Guru, with the noble thought of helping an individual gets rid of the accumulated impurities will also intuitively and subconsciously guide him in thought, word and deeds.

Only by the Divine Grace of the Guru can a person’s intellectual abilities be uplifted against the powerful gravity of illusions. By uncompromisingly treading the path shown by the Guru, the disciple’s life will be sculpted to perfection, where the previously gathered imprints will wither away and dissolve in the purity of the thought force.

A person, who realises the light of wisdom within every living being as inside himself, can only become a true Guru. A Guru’s goal is to liberate humanity from the pangs of illusion by lighting up the way to peace and harmony. An enlightened Guru has no desire to hold anyone in pupillage, instead He will raise the consciousness of the spiritual aspirant to understand the mysteries of Nature and see the individual as a physical manifestation of the divine.

Every individual who holds this ray of wisdom is bound to be a seed, which bears the potential to transform the society to blossom with spiritual harmony, spreading streams of peace everywhere.