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To protect the sapling, the Guru creates a fence of vows and conduct, provides it with a suitable foundation, and helps it grow.
Then, with great care and affection, the Guru nurtures the sapling, just as a gardener cultivates a sapling into a fruit-bearing tree; similarly, this physician of the soul makes the disciple a tree of liberation. Just as a skilled gardener, through the act of sowing seeds, takes care of the sapling until it becomes a fruit-laden, humble tree, so this great physician of the soul, with compassion, showers the disciple with the nectar of teachings, ensuring that the seeds of right conduct sprout, grow progressively, and ultimately bear the fruit of liberation.
For, the sole purpose of these supremely wise, supremely compassionate, and supremely merciful physicians of the soul is to bring about the disciple's welfare. Just as the sole purpose of a physician is to cure the patient as quickly as possible, so these physicians of the soul, regardless of the severity of the disease, administer the medicine, with the sole purpose of the disciple's well-being. Similarly, these physicians of the disease of rebirth, without hesitation, administer the medicine of teachings that can cure the disease of rebirth, eliminate the delusion of the self, and bring about liberation. Their sole purpose is to quickly cure the disease of rebirth, eliminate the delusion of the self, and thereby the delusion of rebirth. If they believe that the disciple will benefit from the teachings of the eternal, they emphasize those teachings; if they believe that the disciple will benefit from the teachings of the non-eternal, they emphasize those teachings. They use their wisdom to administer appropriate teachings as needed. Thus, it is understood that the difference in teachings arises from their selfless purpose.
"The delusion of the self is like a disease, and the wise Guru is the physician; the Guru's command is like medicine, and contemplation is the cure." - This is how the second chapter of the *Atmasiddhi Pariharantar* resolves the doubt.
"Even though there is only one teaching, it appears different due to the difference in the listeners. This is due to the inconceivable power of merit, which arises from the karma of the listener." - This means that the eternal, non-eternal, and other types of teachings appear differently due to the karma of the listener.