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We could define gurutattva as ''the study of. the guru and his indispensable role in the I attainment by every human being of the highest t.mental and spiritual development". Who Is the- Real Guru? offers readers discussion and evaluation of gurutattva from different angles. The author delivered the various discourses ' herein at different times, using the perspectives of different fields of knowledge, in order to convey ; his illuminating opinions on the single subject of - gurutattva. The situation can be explained through the following analogy with agriculture: The disciple's heart is a field; sadhana is the ploughing and irrigation of the field; and the preceptor's initiation is the sowing of seeds. If the seeds are defective they will not sprout; if the field is infertile the harvest will be poor; and even if the seed and the field are ideal, yet the field is not properly ploughed or irrigated, the harvest will be poor.