Guru and Disciple

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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The Guru and the Disciple
only the rich take the benefit. Wherever there are any fees, there is no religion. We do not charge anyone here. What would happen if we did? You will spend your money once to get the Gnan, then you will say, 'We will practice the Gnan very strongly, but we will not pay to attend again."
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It is wrong to name names, but I am giving you a synopsis of what has become of religion today. It is wrong that gurus have become business-minded. It is wrong to keep fees. Wherever there are practitioners (trainees), they charge fees. All such things are useless.
Where there is business of money, there one cannot be called a "guru". Where tickets are issued, it is called a 'play.' But nowadays people don't know any better and they go to only the ones who sell tickets. They adjust to each other better because they are beggars and so are the gurus, therefore, everything that goes on is very insincere and completely false.
Then they (gurus) claim they are nispruha (free from desires or inclination). Why do you make such claims? If you are nispruha then no one will ever be suspicious about you. And if you are with spruha (deepest desire and inclination), then no matter what you say, no one is going to refrain from being suspicious about you and no one is going to believe you no matter what you say, because your spruha will say it all.
The demand for fraud is the reason for its supply
Here everyone is trying to fill his stomach and that is the beggary (bheekh). Everyone is in it for himself. If it is not for the stomach, then it is for fame. It is for the beggary of fame, beggary of money and beggary of pride. You can attain anything you want from a man who has no beggary of any kind. A person who has beggary has not attained anything or improved himself and so he cannot help you improve either. Everywhere people have started a business and the customers keep coming.
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One man asks me, 'Is it the fault of the customers or the businessman?' I told him that the fault lies with the customer. A man can start any type of business he wants to but should the customers not be 'savvy'? If a fisherman throws bait on a hook, and the fish is greedy and bites the bait, who is at fault, the fish or the fisherman? It is the fault of the one who takes the bait. People take the bait thrown by these gurus.
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People have created sects in order to fulfill their desires to be worshipped. The entire fault does not fall upon the poor worshippers. The fault lies with the brokers; the intermediaries. These intermediaries are not content and do not let others be content. That is why I am trying to expose all this. One has always taken pleasure in brokering and made a safe-side for himself. However, you should not tell them that they are at fault. What is the point of telling them? They will be hurt and we have not come here to hurt anyone. All we have to do is understand where the weakness lies. Why do brokers still exist? It is because the flow of customers is very strong. Where would they go if they did not have customers? They will go away, but the fault mainly lies with the customers, does it not? So the main fault is ours. How long will a realtor run around to sell a home? He will do so as long as he has customers, otherwise he will stop and remain silent.
Greed and intense greed leads both sides astray Questioner: The gurus of today are only after money.
Dadashri: People are like that too. The 'logs' are crooked and therefore there are crooked 'saws' for them. Even the wood today is not straight! People are crooked and that is why they find crooked gurus. What crookedness do people have? 'I want a son for my son'! It is these kinds of intense greed (lalacha) that make them victims and subject to exploitation by their gurus. How is a guru going to get a son for your son? When he does not have wife and children of his own, where is he going to get a son for your son? Why don't you ask someone with children? People