________________ can learn to swim by merely standing on the bank. One has to take the plunge. When Guru pushes us in the midst of upheavals, his motive is to train us and to teach us to swim through the rough waters of the world and rise to the surface clean and victorious, untarnished by the muck of the mundane world. Our faith in our Guru should be unflinching. There should be no scope for any doubt. No questions. Why is it so? Why did he do this? The only truth that we need to know is that our Guru always has our well being at his heart. Your worth can be evaluated by the level of equanimity you can maintain in the midst of unfavorable circumstances. When our desires die... then we attain liberation... and when our desires are alive then our worldly ties increase. We may be in state of worship or non-worship, we might be at home or at the upashray, desires are bound to increase our worldly ties. The worship without HIS permission is non-worship and the non-worship with HIS permission is worship. Your liberation lies in the death of your desires. Shishya pase aankh hoy chhe ane Guru pase X-Ray hoy chhe! A disciple has got eyes but a Guru has got X-ray... he can see through..! 128 -