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one does aradhana, then he will surely be blessed, but he does not possess the strength or energy for that. What I am saying is that even if you have to have a really crazed guru, then go ahead and have one, but as long as you make sure that you remain completely sincere to him your whole life, you will be truly blessed. If you remain completely sincere to a guru that is absolutely crazy, all your kashays (inner enemies of anger, pride, deceit and greed) will come to an end! But you would need to understand at least this much! The least you can do is reach this level of understanding that is precisely why the deity is depicted in stone for you, because given people's mentality, they cannot demean it or find fault in a stone effigy. Oh, but no! They even find fault with the stone, by criticizing the adornments, ‘that aangi (The silver-plating over the idols of God) is not quite right' on the statue. These people are so nitpicking! They are so analytical, to the extent that they find fault in their guru. Forget about looking at their own faults, but they even pick faults in the guru. That is how much 'alertness' they have!
I guarantee you that if you were to make any crazed guru your guru, and you remained sincere to him throughout your whole life, then it is possible for you to attain moksha within three lifetimes. Mind you, the guru must be living. People could not afford to do that, which is why these stone idols have been established instead.
Questioner: And whatever agna (special directive) the guru gives us, we have to follow it, don't we?
Dadashri: Yes, even if that agna is outrageous, you still have to stick with it. If you want to go to moksha, then if you make a guru, you have to remain sincere to him throughout your life. A true disciple is one who finds his own happiness in the happiness of his guru. He looks for what pleases his guru. And if he does this his whole life, then all his kashays will end. A crazed guru is a vehicle for you to get rid of all your own
