The question of guidance is a very subtle one. We cannot be
positive that an impulse or a dream are guidance. We can seek, through earnest
prayer and longing sincerely to do God's Will, His guidance. We can try, as you
say, to emulate the Master and at all times live up to the teachings, but we
cannot be sure that doing these things we are still making no mistakes and are
perfectly guided. These things help us not to make so many mistakes and to
receive more directly the guidance God seeks to give us.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated
October 10, 1944, written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual
believer; compilation: ‘Spiritualism,
Reincarnation and Related Subjects’, prepared by the Research Department of the
Universal House of Justice, published in ‘Baha’i Institutions’ a compilation by
India Publishing Trust, 1973)
