Do you need the help of a master/guru to face ultimate death?

[student]

Would you need someone's support for facing/surviving ultimate death/enlightenment? Not just ego death but also death of the body? Nobody knows what awakening/enlightenment is, death, terror or how will it manifest.

For "ultimate enlightenment" do you need a master/teacher? In order for you to remain in this "reality" afterwards and not die "forever" so to say.

Edited January 24, 2020 by student

[MAYA EL]

You need no one

[Inliytened1]

@MAYA EL  for once we agree

@student A teacher or a guru can only point in the direction of the Absolute.  Because in truth it is just You trying to wake Yourself up.   This path must be walked alone because alone You are.

 It can only be You that awakens to You.  You are the only thing in existence so anyone You rely on for help is You.  But it is only after You awake that You become conscious of total Oneness.

[Leo Gura]

This is just basic logic:

If awakening always required a guru or teacher, nobody would be awake, since there would never be that first person to wake up (for lack of a teacher).

Clearly at least 1 person woke up without a guru/teacher. And if one can do it, more than one can do it.

And of course, in practice, many people have woken up independently without teachers all over the world at different times in history.

With that said, you may benefit greatly from good a guru/teacher. Awakening independently requires hardcore motivation and commitment which very few people have.

[Moreira]

A live guru cannot help us because he never died and cannot explain whats in the other side.

But a guru told me that if you drink liquid LSD before death you lose all the FEAR