Can Any Deity Be a Guru?

Aum Sairam

What normally is advised by Gurus is that you try to have one fixed
deity as your favorite or family deity for your deep heart felt prayer.

Once you achieve this, in whatever other deity form you worship later,
you should be able to see the favorite deity in this deity's form or
prayer. That is you need to realize that God is one and that your deity
of prayer, whichever deity it is, is nothing but the same incarnation
of your favorite deity.

The question of why so many deities were also raised many times and
this could perhaps be explained as under:

In the house, the lady takes so many forms. Mother for some, Wife for
some one, Grand Mother for some, Sister for some, Aunt for some, Cousin
for some, Daughter for some, Neighbor for some, Employee for the office
or work place, etc. The person is same but the roles are many. To the
children, she is the kindest person but in the office, she may be a
strict administrator, to the husband the sweet companion, to the
parents, a good daughter, etc.

Here again, the soft forms are accepted easily and the hard form is
often questioned. To this I read a very interesting explanation and
surely it is most acceptable. What it says is that the soft spoken,
good natured mother, just coming out of her bath with her hair untied
as she is still drying out the water wetness, when she sees at a
distance outside that her child is being beaten by the neighbor for
some petty quarrel, immediately takes the form of KALI and rushes out
with the most angry form to tackle this neighbor who is beating the
child, to protect the child and to look after. That is the true nature
of the mother who can even take the form of Kali when it is required,
to save the children [devotees] from the neighbor [demons and evils].
At the same time, she is embracing the child with all the warmth,
wiping out the tears and giving the much-needed support at the right time.

So different forms are those, which are convenient to the different
devotees, who would like to see their God in that form as it pleases
them that way. But God is one. If only the devotee can get that level
of mental maturity to accept that God is one and that one form which is
the favorite one is the one to be taken as God and as Guru if need be,
for all practical purposes and then see this God in all forms and on
all occasions. However, this seeing of God as also the Guru, doesn't
necessarily absolve the real life Guru disciple relationship where
Acharyas and Sadhus and the like who are there in the Mutts, etc., who
help the people with their teachings, preaching's, lectures,
pravachans, etc., and whenever needed, their help could always be
sought and their advice to be made use of. A devotee can always learn
from many Gurus including God.

Allah Malik