Awakening

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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the world.
"There is the snare of bad teachers spread over Undertake the task of cutting it off with your intellectual incisiveness. These bad teachers do not have knowledge or self-control. They are also not helpful to others. These unfit sadhus in the guise of teachers are a burden to the earth".
The implication of this is that a real teacher is he who has knowledge, self-control and magnanimity and the desire to help others.
The sculptor by virtue of his skill, transforms a stone into an image. If stone should become adorable as an image it has to endure the hard strokes of the chisel. In the same manner, a great teacher transforms his disciples into great men. Rawness and insipidity change into humanity; and humanity changes into divinity under the impact of a great teacher. A disciple becomes noble and enlightened only after he endures the teacher's severe admonitions and the strokes of his
cane.
The disciples who experience the torment of the teacher's harsh and serve rebukes become elevated and ennobled. Those precious stones whose worth is not tested on the touchstone cannot find a place on the crowns of kings.
The teacher's precepts possess a dynamic force that imparts speed to the minds of disciples. The