Guru and Disciple

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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The Guru and the Disciple
a Gnani Purush. This discussion is of the one who knows and has experienced the Sat - the Real; the Self; the Soul - but instead, people have latched onto these ordinary gurus.
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One should tell such make-shift-gurus, 'Sir, I have no interest in making a guru. I do not want a businessperson as a guru. I have come to make the one who has no desire to become a guru - my guru.'
There is no throne in Akram Vignan
Questioner: In the olden days, the legacy of gurus existed in which the guru taught his disciple and then that disciple became a guru himself and taught his disciples...
Dadashri: That was a true legacy. But such a legacy does not exist today. Now they make heirs to the throne. How can you accept a guru's son as a guru? It is an abuse to establish a throne.
Questioner: Instead of a religious organization, it became a social arrangement.
Dadashri: Yes, it became a social arrangement. Where does dharma (religion) remain? It remains in its place. The influence of Kaliyug came into play. One or two men would be good, but after them, the heirs to their throne would take over. Heirs to the thrones everywhere! Heirs are not always suitable. In all other talents, or business, there is an heir. In religion, we cannot have heirs to the guru's throne. In all this 'transference of the throne,' the one who has attained the Self, an Atma Gnani, should be the heir.
Questioner: There were no thrones before, so where did these thrones come from?
Dadashri: They were 'discovered' when things fell in the hands of shrewd people. They opened up their own shops when there was no one left. The blind ones will be mislead. I do not know how we find such people in this country. People have started
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this mischief; it continues to go on and on. People have become heirs to thrones.
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Who has the right to these thrones? The one who does not have any anger, pride, deceit and greed has a right to this throne. Do you not see justice in this?
Questioner: That is right.
Dadashri: So many people ask me why I started this Akram path. I tell them that I have not started it; I simply became animit (instrumental in the process). Why would I start it? Do I want to create a throne here? Have I come here to create thrones? Am I dethroning anyone? No, I do not create or destroy anything. There is no such thing here and there is no throne here, is there? Those who have thrones have problems. Where there are thrones, there is no moksha there.
The grave danger of desire to be worshipped
People in religion have found these ways to uphold their opinions and open shops for their own worship; hence, they did not let people come out of that rut. They have misled people so that people would worship them. Saboteurs say this is okay and will not let anything else in. Saboteur means one with a desire to be worshipped by others. The desire to be worshipped is a broker ship of business, is it not?
If a religious book happens to fall in someone's hands and people ask him to read it out aloud for a group, from that moment onwards a desire such as 'now people will appreciate and worship me' wells up within him. If this happens, that individual should be dismissed. How can such a desire arise within you after touching a Gnani's book? On the contrary, such a book should actually destroy any such existing desires. Can you understand that such desires to be worshipped arise in people?
Questioner: Yes.