Questioner: Can Sri Bhagavan help us to realise the Truth?
Maharshi: Help is always there.
Questioner: Then there is no need to ask questions. I do not feel the ever-present help.
Maharshi: Surrender and you will find it.
Questioner: I am always at your feet. Will Bhagavan give us some upadesha [spiritual instruction] to follow? Otherwise how can I get the help living 600 miles away?
Maharshi: That Sadguru is within.
Questioner: Sadguru is necessary to guide me to understand it.
Maharshi: The Sadguru is within.
Questioner: I want a visible Guru.
Maharshi: That visible Guru says that He is within.
Questioner: Can I throw myself at the mercy of the Sadguru?
Maharshi: Yes. Instructions are necessary only so long as one has not surrendered oneself.
~ Talk 434; 28th December, 1937
