What the Spirit of Guidance is, can be further explained as
follows: as in man there is a faculty for art, music, poetry and
science, so in him is the faculty or spirit of guidance; it is
better to call it spirit because it is the supreme faculty from
which all the others originate. As we see that in every person
there is some artistic faculty, but not everyone is an artist,
as everyone can hum a tune but only one in a thousand is a
musician, so every person possesses this faculty in some form
and to a limited degree; but the spirit of guidance is found
among few indeed of the human race. A Sanskrit poet says, Jewels
are stones, but cannot be found everywhere; the sandal tree is a
tree, but does not grow in every forest; as there are many
elephants, but only one king elephant, so there are human beings
all over the world, but the real human being is rarely to be
found. When we arise above faculty and consider the spirit of
guidance, we shall find that it is consummated in the
Bodhisatva, the spiritual teacher