Guru and Disciple

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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as far as your difficulty demands. I will stop the moment you start to become greedy.
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Hand over your miseries to me and, if you have faith (vishvas) in me, they will not come back to you. But they will if you lose faith in me. So if you have any difficulties, tell me, 'Dada, I am surrendering my miseries to you.' If I take away your miseries, then you will get somewhere, otherwise, how will you?
I have come to take away the miseries of the world. Keep your happiness with you. Do you have a problem with that? If someone like you gives me money, what am I going to do with that money? I have come to take away miseries. Keep your money; it will be useful to you. There is no exchange of money where there is a Gnani Purush, he comes to take away your miseries, not increase them.
Purity of the Gnani
If I were to take money from people, people would give me as much as I wanted. But what am I going to do with money? I have attained the status of this Gnani only when all beggary (bheekh) left.
In America, on Gurupurnima day (on this day, devotees have the divine full darshan of their guru or Gnani), people would put gold chains weighing as much as three ounces around my neck and I used to give them back; what was I going to do with them? One woman began to cry and pleaded, 'You have to accept my chain.' So I asked her if she will wear a chain if I were to give her one. She replied, 'I do not have a problem with that, but I cannot take yours.' I told her, 'I will have someone else give it to you.' If I were to give someone a very heavy gold chain and make them promise to wear it even at night when she went to sleep, is she likely to wear it? She would return it the very next day and say, 'Here, Dada take your chain back.' If there is happiness in gold, then the more gold you get, the happier you
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will be. But your belief that happiness exists in gold is a wrong belief. Can there be happiness in it? Bliss lies where there is no need to get anything. Bliss is where there is no need to acquire anything from this world.
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I eat, drink, and wear clothes that I have bought with my own money that I have earned from my business and whatever comes to me in my prarabdha (karma effect). I do not take money from anyone and I do not wear anything that is given to me by others. I have paid for this dhoti (a piece of cloth wear around the waist) that I wear, and I also pay for my own airline tickets to Mumbai. So why would I need any money? How will people accept even a word of what I say if I take a dime from anyone? It would be tantamount to eating his leftovers. I do not need anything. What could even God give to the one who does not desire anything?
A man came to give me adhoti, another man came to give me something else. If I had the desire, it would be a different matter, but I do not have any desire at all. I am comfortable wearing even torn clothes. I am saying that the purer you keep everything, the more the world will benefit.
One's purity means...
In this world, the greater your purity, the more of the world is yours. You own the world! I have not been an owner of this body for the past twenty-six years and that is why my purity is complete. So, become pure, pure.
Questioner: Please clarify purity.
Dadashri: Purity means that you do not need anything in this world; there is no beggary for anything. Worldly people always want to become superior to others It is different here; this is not a shop. People still call this a shop. They ask, 'Why have you opened a shop like all the others?