Guru and Disciple

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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Dadashri: Then the competition starts within. He does not like it if someone else is worshipped more than he is. People believe that to be worshipped is moksha itself. There is grave danger in this. The only person worth worshipping is someone who does not have any quarrels with anyone in this world.
These gurus have a desire to be worshipped; they get a desire to become gurus. Those fools! At least recognize the desire Krupadudev-Gnani purush Shrimad Rajchandra had. He said, "My exclusive desire is to know the absolute Sat (the eternal truth)." Never in my life have I had a desire to be worshipped. It is bothersome. We need to have a desire to worship anyone who is above us. All you need is to worship and not to be worshipped; that is all
the name of a monk ever remain? One should not have even a desire to keep his name. Any desire is beggarliness.
Beggary makes you miss the goal of liberation
This beggary does not go away; the beggary for respect, the beggary for fame, the beggary for sex, the beggary for money... beggary, beggary, beggary! Have you ever seen anyone without beggary? There is also the beggary for building temples, so they involve themselves in building temples. When a person has nothing to do, he will get involved in everything that will help him earn fame. Why are you building temples? Do we not have enough temples in India? But he runs around raising money in order to build temples. The Lord has said that one will build temples, if it is written so in the fruition of his karma; why are you getting involved in it?
In India, the human birth is not exclusively for building temples. One is bom in India exclusively to attain moksha. If your goal is to become ekaviari (attain final moksha after one more life), you will attain that in fifty, a hundred, or even five hundred more lifetimes, should you let go of any other goals you may have. You may get married, have children. become a doctor, build a bungalow, but it is all immaterial. However, keep only one goal, which is, since you are born in India, you want to acquire all that is necessary to go to moksha. Come down to this one goal and then you will find a solution.
Questioner: Is pride (maan), desire to be worshipped (poojavani kaamna), garvaras indulgence in the sweet taste of doer-ship), etc., not a part of 'I-ness' (potapanu)?
Dadashri: All these things reinforce the 'I-ness.' A strong *I-ness' will cause a quarrel with someone some day, will it not? Then people will say, "Look, his weaknesses are in the open now.' He will not attain anything once his "I-ness' shows its presence. That is why the desire to be worshipped does not leave, even after numerous past lives. The beggary for this desire never leaves.
No name remains
Then they also have a desire for fame through name and so they publish their names in books. Why did you not get married, instead? At least your children would carry on your name. Why do you want to keep a name here, after becoming a guru? Your name even in a book?! They make them print things like, "My grandfather is a guru, my father is a guru, etc!" They have started to use names even in temples. They put plaques of "This temple was built by such and such a guru." Do names ever remain? When even the names of the married people do not remain, how would
There must not be any beggary of any kind within. You should not get involved with fundraising for religion and neither should you instigate anyone else to do so. You should not do, make others do, or instigate others into doing anything. I have become free from all beggary, even the one of building temples, because I do not need anything in this world. I do not have any beggary for fame, beggary for money, beggary for gold or beggary for disciples. Thoughts about money or sex do not arise at all. How can there be any beggary when even mere thoughts about these, do not arise within?