Guru and Disciple

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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still their faith becomes established. And, in other places, their faith goes away immediately with very little effort. Therefore, real faith will be established when the guru's speech, conduct and humility 'steal your mind and win your heart."
Questioner: In order for faith to be established, is speech the most important aspect?
right? Will it stick without glue? When I was twenty-five years old, I had gone to a certain guru. He told me, 'You will understand all this if you keep faith in me,' so I asked, "For how long?' He replied, "For six months.' I said to him, "Sir, it does not come even now! Apply such glue so that my 'stamp' will stick. Here I am trying to stick it, I am trying to make my faith stick but it keeps falling off. Now tell me something that will make faith come to me." What do you think? Should you have to keep faith or should it come to you naturally?
Questioner: It should come naturally.
Dadashri: Yes, naturally. When I told him to say something, he responded, 'How can that be so? You have to keep faith. Do all these people not keep faith? Itold him that doing that did not suit me. For how long can faith without glue stick? You need glue to make it stick immediately and not have it come off ever again. The paper will tear, but it will not come off. If he tells you that your 'glue' is not enough, then you should tell him, 'No, the stamp is mine, but you have to apply the glue (faith). If you do not apply the glue, the stamp comes off even before he stamps it, and I end up paying the penalty. Paste the glue on the stamp and if you have run out of glue, make a paste out of wheat flour.' Therefore, faith is something that remains once it is established; it cannot be removed. One can get tired of stamping, but it will not come off.
The thoughts, speech and acts that make faith arise
Dadashri: When he starts to speak, faith will come to you that very moment, and you will feel, 'Oh ho ho! He says such wonderful things! Your work is done if faith becomes established on his words. It is not acceptable to have faith one time and not the next. You should have faith in him every time you hear him. His speech is first class. Even if he is dark and has scars from small pox, if his speech is 'first class', realize that faith will be established there.
Questioner: What else is required for faith to come?
Dadashri: That he is so awe-inspiring that the mere sight of him will make you feel at peace. We can tell him, 'It is alright if you do not say anything, but show me such beauty and charm that faith will come to me.' But elsewhere there is no physical beauty either, so how can one have faith on them? The guru's physical appearance should be such that one will be attracted to him immediately. But here there is no attraction at all. There is no magnetism of the personality. Even if he had an attractive face, there would be some inner pull. But neither the face nor the speech is attractive. That is not acceptable here. If gnan is attractive, it will produce faith. Here *our' Gnan is attractive and, therefore, it gives rise to faith (shraddha). It will for sure. And elsewhere, even if one has oratory skills, it will suffice.
Questioner: When faith comes, on what basis does it come?
Dadashri: It comes based on one's guru's conduct, effective thoughts, speech and acts (charitra). There is energy behind his conduct. You do not need to establish faith where one's speech, conduct and humility win your heart; it will definitely be established on its own. I tell people not to keep any faith here, but
Now even if the worldly guru does not know how to speak and you feel at peace, you should know that it is worth having faith in him. Every time you are agitated and you go to him and feel at peace, you should know that it is worth having faith in him.