Guru and Disciple

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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Questioner: If twenty-five of them are sitting and five of them benefit and twenty do not; even then it is the guru's fault?
Dadashri: The guru verily is at fault. Questioner: What is his mistake?
Dadashri: He does not have charitrabud - the effective energy through thoughts, speech and acts. He has to nurture and develop his charitrabud. If we place a block of ice here at night, whether people know about it or not, everyone will feel its effect, will they not?
Therefore, charitrabud is necessary, but these gurus don't have charitrabud and that is why they get irritated with their disciples. That is not acceptable, is it? People are the way they are. They have come to the guru seeking guidance. The guru must not have any quarrels or conflict with them.
The qualities needed to impart knowledge
Questioner: One is to attain Gnan through one's own experience, that is to have spontaneous enlightenment, and the other to attain it by listening to someone's sermon, can you explain the difference between the two?
Dadashri: As far as sermons are concerned, they are the same as what we read in the scriptures. But it is a different thing if the one giving the sermon has vachanbud such that his words will reach deep within you and remain there for months on end. Otherwise, the sermons of today are such that they enter through one ear and go out the other, there is no value in these sermons. There is no difference between their sermons and the books.
We especially need words that are so delivered; that they will ring in our ears months after we have heard them. Such sermons are regarded as vitamins for the Soul. Such sermons happen very rarely. However, the guru needs to have purity of conduct in worldly interactions. He needs to have charitrabud
(energy effective in thoughts, speech and acts) behind it. He should be a sheelvan (purity); it should be someone in whom the kashayas (inner weakness of anger, pride, deceit and greed) are minimal and ineffective.
Heed the Gnani's warning about preaching
All those who give sermons tell us, 'Do this, do that, but when it comes down to them, they get irritated and exasperated. They keep giving sermons. In reality who has the right to give sermons? The one who does not get upset in the slightest extent, has the right to do so. However, these people are such that they will strike back the moment you say something against them. 'I am someone who knows a lot. I am like this and I am like that.' They speak under the influence of the illusion, 'I..............! and this is precisely why there is no progress.
This is the path of the vitarag Lords (the omniscient free from attachment). This path has many dangers for the preacher. To utter even a single word, carries tremendous liability. Currently all preachers carry a tremendous liability. But people do not or understand this and that is why they give sermons. You should check and test yourself to see whether you are an updeshak (a preacher). An updeshak should be free from artadhyan and raudradhyan (adverse internal meditation). It does not matter if one has not attained shukladhyan (the meditation as the Self) because his dharmadhyan (a state void of artadhyan and raudradhyan) is increasing. However, if he continues to experience artadhyan and raudradhyan, then the liability is his. The Lord has said that as long as there is anger, pride, deceit and greed within; do not preach to anyone.
This is why I say, when you give sermons (vyakhyan), you simply have the right to do swadhyaya (study the Self): you do not have the right to give updesh (preach). If in spite of this you preach, then because you preach in the presence of kashayas within, you will go to hell. The one who listens to you will not go