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As soon as God is convinced that you are in earnest and nothing can turn you away from Him, then through the guru, He gives you the final realization --- the guru transmits to you the light of God that flows through him. Perhaps you thought that you would never know such a blessing. That supreme experience I received from my Guru. He gave me by his touch what I could not attain by the power and effort of my meditation alone.

- Paramahansa Yogananda