Guru and Disciple

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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and then asked me how he could stop them. He asked if there was a solution.
What would you do here? Who is at fault here? Is the guru at fault?
Questioner: The fault lies with the one who has bad thoughts.
Dadashri: Yes, so what did I tell him? I told him, “Realize that negative thoughts such as, 'He is worthless and wicked,' are not in your control. At that time, you should say, 'He is very beneficial to me.' If the mind says, 'He is very bad, just say, 'He is very beneficial to me.' This way it will be taking away through subtraction, all the additions you have done and bring everything down to a zero. This is the solution I am showing you."
The Khojas have the true guru worship
I have observed one thing amongst the Khojas (a sect of Shi'a Ismaili branch of Islam); they all worship the same guru and claim him to be the greatest guru. When a guru of the Hindu religion went to America, and got married, his followers started to call him worthless. All disciples were upset and said that he should not commit such a crime. Hey you! Are you calling your guru whom you have been worshipping until now, useless? Therefore, they asked me whether such a guru was not considered worthless. I told them, 'Go ask these Khojas.' I find that their disciples are the greatest in the entire world. When their guru married a foreigner, even then his disciples celebrated the occasion. His followers will tell you, "How can we object to that. He has all the right to do so. We should celebrate immediately.' His followers became very happy and celebrated with a procession. We, on the other hand, get upset even when our guru marries one of his own. You should not do as your guru does but do as he tells you.
If anyone in the entire world has the knowledge of how to have a guru, it is the Khojas. If your guru were to get married or
for that matter even if he interfered with someone, you would beat him up. The Khojas, on the other hand, celebrated even when their guru married a European woman. That is what we call a disciple. You should not look for faults in a guru. If you must, look for faults in everyone else, but not in the guru. It is a grave liability to do so. Otherwise, do not make anyone your guru.
I am not asking you to worship your guru, but do not talk negatively about your guru. Indeed, if you were to worship him, your work would be accomplished. However, people do not have the capacity to worship in the right way. What I am saying is this: make a crazy person your guru-the craziest one you can find - but if you remain sincere to him, you will be blessed. All your kashayas will come to an end if you remain sincere to a crazy guru. But you have to understand at least this much. A person's intellect should reach this level, should it not? That is why idols of stone have been placed for you, knowing the kind of people there are, so that they cannot look for faults in them. But, alas, people find faults even in an idol of stone. These people are thinkers and so they are likely to find faults in a guru. Instead of looking at their own faults, they look for faults in their guru. That is how 'alert they are.
I give you a guarantee that it is possible to attain moksha within just three more lives if you stand by your guru, no matter how crazy he may be. But that guru must be living. That is why people have started keeping idols, because they could not afford to have a living guru.
So what I am saying is do not destroy what you have decided upon. It is not an ordinary or an easy thing to make a guru. So make sure before you make anyone a guru.
The non living guru Questioner: When a person makes someone his guru, he does not have the complete understanding at the time.