Guru and Disciple

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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of progress in the spiritual path that he gives you; there is no need to qualify. Those with qualification feel in their mind, 'Of course I understand everything anyway! On the contrary, qualification increases one'skeyfintoxication); therefore, qualifications cause one to have an intoxicated ego of 'knowing'. Indeed, if one has any qualifications, they should be qualifications that are worth keeping. A person should understand that if he has any element of an intoxication of 'I know, then he must get rid of it. Intoxicated ego is what gets in the way of having the qualifications and meeting a satguru. Qualified people are usually reserved and they keep their distance, whereas those with lesser qualifications will always say, 'Sahib, I have no common sense. I am putting everything on you. I am now in your hands. You find a solution.' Then the satguru becomes happy. That is all you need to say. The satguru does not ask for anything else, nor does he look for any other qualifications.
Complete Surrender to the Satguru Questioner: One should be devoted only to the satguru, is that what you are saying?
Dadashri: Total surrender to the satguru is needed.
Questioner: What if one remains with total surrender to the satguru?
Dadashri: Then the work is done. If you have the intent of complete surrender, then all your work will be done and nothing else will remain. However, that surrender needs to be of the mind, speech and body.
Questioner: Such surrender is only effective and worthy if done to someone of the caliber of Lord Krishna or Lord Mahavir, correct? Alternatively, is it acceptable to surrender even to an ordinary person?
Dadashri: If you find a Virat Purush - a person who
dissolve your ego; then you should surrender to him. If you feel that he is a great man and all his deeds are outstanding, then you should surrender to him.
Questioner: If we surrender to the great souls that lived thousand of years ago, can that be considered surrender? Can we make any progress through such surrender or do we need to surrender to a living great man?
Dadashri: You can progress even through paroksha (indirectly-one not currently living). However if you find such a living (pratyaksh) person, then your liberation will be instant. The indirect approach will give you the benefit of progress but there is no liberation without meeting the living great human being.
After surrendering, you do not have to do anything else. If a child is born to us, the child does not have to do anything. In the same way, after surrendering, you do not have to do anything.
To whomever you surrender your intellect, you will attain the energies of that person. If you have surrendered, then you will attain everything of his. Just as we join two tanks with a pipe, then no matter how much water is in one tank, the other tank will bear the same level of water. That is the power of samarpan (surrender of the mind speech and the body).
He that has attained moksha himself and who sets out to give moksha to others is the only one that can give moksha. I have set out to give the gift of moksha, therefore, I can give moksha. Otherwise, no one else can give the gift of moksha.
Questioner: Is the satguru not relative?
Dadashri: Satguru is relative, but the Gnan that the satguru gives is real. With the real, the bliss of the Self begins, which is the ultimate happiness. "Real' means permanent and
relative' means temporary. The relative happiness is temporary and is limited only to the mind.