Guru and Disciple

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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have gurus because of their intense greed (lalacha) for such things. Hence, these fraudulent gurus have taken advantage of such lalacha. It is right to make someone a guru when you do not have any lalacha yourself.
These gurus simply change their attire and mislead people. People, on the other hand, are fooled because of their lalacha. They would not be fooled if they did not have any lalacha. The one who has nolalacha will never have the occasion to be fooled.
Questioner: But today, people ask their guru for worldly happiness; no one asks for liberation.
Dadashri: It is all worldly talk everywhere, is it not? There is no talk about liberation. It is all about, I want my son to have a son,' or 'I want my business to run well,' or 'My son needs a job,' or 'Bless me so I can get this or that... There are endless such lalacha. Hey you! Have you come here for religion, for liberation or worldly things?
There is a saying, "guru is greedy (lobhi), and the disciple has intense greed lalacha, so they both play their own game." This should not be the case. The disciple is filled with lalacha and so the guru will tell him, 'Your work will be done with my blessings. Therefore, nothing will be attained when lalacha is involved.
The guru must not be selfish and covetous
It is because of Kaliyug that the gurus of today have nothing of substance to offer. They are more selfish than you are. They are trying to fulfill their self-interest and you are trying to fulfill yours. This is not what the path of a guru and a disciple should be.
Questioner:Often times, for many years, intelligent people take such phony gurus as being real gurus.
Dadashri: That is nothing but intense greed (lalacha) only. Many people make gurus out of their own lalacha.
Today's gurus are gurus of Kaliyug. They have some kind of self-interest. "I wonder how he (the disciple) can be useful to me?' is always at the back of their minds. They have such thoughts in their minds even before they meet you. If a doctor were to go there, the moment he sets eyes on the doctor, he will think about the ways the doctor can be useful for him. He will welcome the doctor. Hey you! What need do you have of a doctor? He is thinking about all of this in self-interest. You should never get your work done from those who have self-interest. You should go to someone who does not want anything and is not selfish. With a selfish person, he has his self-interest and you have yours. If there is any self-interest in a guru-disciple relationship, then there is no real guru and no real disciple. There should not be any self-interest here.
If you are not selfish, you can tell the guru, 'Sir, I will leave you the day I see any selfishness in you. I will curse you and leave. You may let me stay if you want to. I will not let you be without food and drink, but do not have any selfishness.'
Yes, you need a guru in whom you do not see any selfinterest. But today, the gurus are greedy and disciples have intense greed; the two get together, so how can anything worthy come out of that? Then both continue playing their own games.
Mainly it is because people have lalacha that these fraudulent gurus continue to thrive. A real guru is never fraudulent; there are few such gurus out there, are there not? This world is not without them but they are hard to find, are they not? Only the seekers with very good merit karma find them.
The greedy guru and the intensely greedy disciple
Then there are gurus who take money for visiting and gracing people's homes with their footsteps! Why don't you bless a poor man's home with your footsteps? Why do you treat the poor this way? Don't you have to think about the poor too? I told one man who did this, that he was wasting his money and time. Why don't