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I am the Soul
197 attaining samyag darshan after going to where we go and whom we believe. You should certainly come there once!”
We said, “Brother! Beg your pardon! But we do not come into the fold that believes that merely going somewhere or believing somebody could help us attain samyag darshan. But when a jiva makes a devoted effort and in that effort if there is a subtraction of darshan-mohaniya (kshayopasham or upasham), then Samyag darshan occurs. Of course, in that process there may be somebody physically instrumental. It is not necessary that Samyag darshan will occur only when we go wherever you go. If the upadan is prepared, any device will appear.”
Brothers! Srimadji says that people with such beliefs who get others to follow them are Asadgurus. Why! They fool gullible people, make thousands of devotees, for these are times when you can run any kind of fraud. You only need the courage and intellect to do it. “The world bows before the one who can make it bend," so goes a saying. Going on the wrong path, you may get millions of followers, but perhaps on the right path you may not even find any. But the result of all this is dreadful. You will get success, fame and prestige to suffice this life. But the wandering from birth to birth increases. Hence Srimadji says -
असद्गुरु ए विनयनो, लाभ लहे जो कांई, ETUIEŤ eft, og sasto TT.....38
Srimadji says, “The Vinay dharma is the greatest. Without vinay, the sadhaka will not attain the success of his devoted practice. In spite of this, if the Asadgurus accept vinay from sadhaka, accept service, nurture the feeling of acquiring false success and fame by making disciples, they get bound in mahamohaniya karma and as a result their wandering in this world increases manifold.
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