Question: There are false Gurus too. People who are teaching things that they haven't yet realized. There's the story of the woman who went to take milk to the priest and she ended up walking across the river with her faith. So if someone had enough faith even if their Guru wasn't a true Guru, they could get great benefit from that?

Babaji:

Yes, the faith is much more important. This can happen. Even historically, about 500 years ago, a great Saint called Kanaka Dasa, who was a cow herd, taking care of buffalos, from the South Indian state of Karnataka. He was pure hearted and innocent. One day he saw some scholarly people, some priests trying to worship God underneath a tree, where they erected a dais for God. From a distance this boy was watching them. After the worship was over he approaches them and kindly requests them to teach him how to worship God. "How do I remember God? I want to know God." They laugh at him and ridicule him, "You are a buffalo boy, a cowherd - what can you understand about such things? Look, you go and do this; go under that tree, close your eyes and repeat, 'Buffalo, buffalo.'  God will come to you." He took it seriously and he went and sat under the tree and repeated the word "Buffalo". It is said that he got a vision of the death-god Yama Raja, seated on a buffalo. He might have visualized that form so he got that manifestation when his mind became 100% concentrated. And Yama in that vision initiated him into the mantra, bhakti marga, of Lord Vishnu's Kesava's name and guided him to go to another Yogi named Swami Vyasa Thirtha, where he went and finally achieved Self-Realization. So faith can work such wonders.