Steps to Oneness
Particularly in India the general spiritual attitude to seekers is that you have to find a guru, a teacher, and the guru is a link. In many ways it is easier to connect with another human being than it is to connect with some abstract universal energy – until you have had the experience of universal energy it is just an idea. You might trust that such a thing exists but it is just a belief system, and for a human being to find it on his or her own is really difficult.