Guru and Disciple

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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The Guru and the Disciple
What self-interest do you have?' I do have self-interest in this. My self-interest is that you attain the bliss that I have attained. People are suffering; they are roasting like potatoes in a fire pit. They are struggling hopelessly like fish out of water. That is why I have to go around wandering from one place to another. Many have attained this path of bliss.
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Questioner: So that is not a self-serving need, but rather a bhavna (inner intent) that all living beings attain salvation.
Dadashri: It is a bhavna that people attain salvation. No one except the Tirthankaras and the Gnanis have such bhavnas. How can one think about others when he is not content himself? What do people seek? They seek to attain a higher status. A sadhu (monk) keeps thinking, 'When will they make me an acharya (religious principal)?' while the acharya thinks, 'when will he make me...?" These are all the bhavna they have. Then there are people who have the bhavna to deal in the black market. A collector has abhavna for becoming a commissioner. No one cares about Jagat kalyan (world's salvation). Therefore, in the relative, the whole world is preoccupied with guruta (superiority). They cannot attain gurutam, the highest inner state, the Gnani.
Questioner: What is meant by guruta (superiority) in the
relative?
Dadashri: Guruta means a need to advance higher. They all believe they will become superior as they go higher. They want superiority only in the relative. But when are they likely to become superior in the relative world? The relative world is temporary. A person tries to go higher with whatever superiority he has attained, but there is no telling when he will fall. In the relative world one needs laghuta (to want to become lower). Those who try to be superior in the relative world will not attain anything.
Superiority makes one crash in the end
He who has not become laghutam (lower than the lowest)
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is not fit to be gurutam (higher than the highest). Not a single guru today has ever tried to become laghutam. Everyone is going towards gurutam. Nevertheless, nobody is at fault here; the current time cycle has become an obstacle and the intellect has turned negative. What are all these gurus working towards? Their business is to find out how to go higher, how to increase their superiority. They do not want to go lower. They go higher up in the worldly life and they make a name for themselves by increasing disciples. This only makes them go lower innischay (in the realm of the Self). Consequently, their inner spiritual state declines. Ascending in the worldly life is a sign of decline in the spiritual realm.
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A man leaves behind three human beings, a wife and two children, and runs away to become a guru. He became tired of the three at home and so he goes and makes one hundred and eight disciples! Why did he leave the three behind and latch onto one hundred and eight? What was wrong with the three at home? Are these one hundred and eight better than those three? Now these new ones will make all the noise. Why have you started this nonsense?
Dada is the disciple of disciples
Questioner: Has Dada made anyone his disciple?
Dadashri: I sit here as a disciple of the whole world. I am a disciple of even the disciples. What do I need a disciple for? Why would I want to take on their responsibilities? There are fifty thousand people who follow me but I am a disciple of them all.
Is the Gnani Purush a guru? Questioner: So then are you not a guru?
Dadashri: No, I am a disciple of the whole world. Why would I want to be a guru?
Questioner: What if, from today onwards, I consider you as a true guru and surrender to you?