The path of life can be very difficult and winding. A step to the side - and it is easy to find yourself flying into the abyss. In order not to be lost in this bizarrely arranged world, people accept spiritual teachers, mentors, or simply focus on the experience of those they trust.
Instructions
Step 1
Choose someone you trust from among preachers or priests. Before asking this person for spiritual guidance, observe him. See how his words coincide with his actions. Perhaps this person will not be a clergyman at all, but simply a wise, inspiring person.
Step 2
Find out more about this person's biography. How did he come to his current position (became a priest, spiritual leader, just a wise person). If this path seems right, interesting, and worthy of imitation to you, this will be another reason to ask for mentorship.
Step 3
Ask this person questions about the meaning of a person's life, about his individual path. The answers may not meet your expectations. They may even upset you. But the main task of a spiritual mentor is not to delight the student's ears with “sweet songs”, but to convey the Truth to him. Therefore, it is worth thinking about which person will be more useful to you as a spiritual mentor: a pleasant and leading soul-saving conversations or a real spiritual warrior who can break your usual ideas about the world and turn you to the Truth.
Step 4
Ask this person if he is ready to act as your spiritual guide? The very ritual of "addressing the teacher" is necessary. This form of establishing a teacher-student relationship has been practiced since ancient times in the East, when a person humbly asks the teacher to accept him as a student.
Step 5
You need to discuss with the person whom you have chosen as a mentor, whether he is ready to take on such responsibility and give you instructions about life, analyzing your successes and failures on the path to "enlightenment", however you define it for yourself.
