Guru and Disciple

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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is with viewing a woman as an object of sexual pleasure. She is a pure Soul and not a sexual object.
Hand over your miseries to the Gnani Purush
Religion cannot exist wherever money is accepted; money taken in the form of fees, tax or duty, as a gift, etc. Where money is taken in these forms, religion cannot exist. Religion cannot happen where money is involved and vice versa. So this is easy to understand, is it not? Wherever money and sex are involved, one is not even a guru.
Things are going to change. Now there will be good gurus. Good means pure. If a guru has financial difficulty, then you can ask him what he needs for his sustenance. There should not be anything else besides this. They should not have needs to become famous or any such things.
Taking money from anyone creates a separation
Do you think people are happy? They are unhappy to begin with and then you take money from them? Do people not go to a guru to get rid of their misery? But then you increase their misery by charging them twenty-five rupees. You cannot take even a dime from anyone. Taking anything from anyone is a separation (judai) with him. And that verily is called sansar (the worldly life). One wanders around in this life after life. In such interactions, the taker is the one who wanders. He takes money because he thinks of the other person as not one of his own.
Many people come here and leave some of their money. You do not need to leave your money here; here you have to ask for money. Is this a place to give things? Do you have to give anything to the emperor of the universe? On the contrary, you have to ask him to remove all your difficulties. Give your money to a guru. He may be in need of clothes or something else. The Gnani Purush does not need anything.
One businessperson had three large trunks delivered to where I lived in Santa Cruz in Mumbai. Then he came to meet me. I asked him what the trunks were. 'Nothing, but just a token...if not the whole flower then even a petal...,' he replied.
Then I asked him if he had any difficulties or problems, so he told me that he wanted a child. In what life did you not have children? You had children when you were a dog, a donkey, a monkey, in which life did you not have children? You still ask for children? Even when God is pleased with you, you still ask for children? And you come to me with a bribe? You have come to taint me with your filth? If I become filthy, to whom will I pass on the filth? Go and spread your filth on the gurus out there. Those poor gurus do not get any 'filth.' How did you bring this problem here? So he replied, "Sir, please bless us.' I replied, 'Yes I will bless you, I will use some influence.
As far as your problems are concerned, all I have to do is to pick up the phone and call the dev-devas (celestial beings in ready service of the Gnani Purush). All I have to do is act as an intermediary and carry out the exchange. Otherwise, the Gnani Purush does not get involved. The Gnani Purush does not meddle in such things, but he is here to listen to people's miseries, is he not? He is here to get rid of all the problems, is he not? If you have difficulties, come and ask for money. Now, I do not give out money, but I will make the appropriate calls, just do not be greedy. Come only if you have difficulty and I will do everything, but only
If I use anything or spend even a rupee that I have not earned, for myself, I would become spiritually bankrupt. One should not spend even a single dime of the disciple's money. Those who have started such a business will go into bankruptcy and waste away whatever siddhis (special spiritual energies) they have attained. The guru had attracted people with whatever little siddhis he had attained, but then those siddhis will get used up. Any siddhis that are misused will be lost.