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the same are all students. If both the teacher and the students
are renouncing or turning the beads on a rosary, then can we not
conclude that they are in a ‘standard’ i.e. they are both in the
process of studying? If you ask them, “Sir, have you finished
studying?” they will say, “We have finished studying but we still
have to do our rosary.” No! If you want to attain moksha, then
realize that moksha and the wooden rosary beads are foes. You
have to dwell (ramanata) in the realm of the Self for moksha.
These people are dwelling in the wooden beads and therefore
they will not attain moksha. This is just a type of a business they
have started. ‘We’ have to make this statement in order to alert
and caution them.
There should not be any business in religion but religion
should definitely be present in all business. Wherever there are
transactions of money in any religion, understand that it is not a
true religion.
A person can still attain moksha if he asks for guidance
but he does not do this either. He guides himself according to his
own misguided intellect (dahapan) only. That is why people
have been advised to have a guru, but what can one do if the
gurus themselves are worthless. What can anyone do when the
guru himself is ‘market material’ (commercialized, involved in
money transactions for his own gain)? It is good that people do
not sign long term contracts with such ‘gurus’, otherwise they
will demand, “Why are you leaving after two years when we
have a contract for five years?” The vitarag path is not like this.
How can one be a guru without the gurukilli –
master key ?
It is difficult to find a real guru in this world. A mutual self-
serving relationship between a guru and his disciple will always
prevail and that relationship will sink them both. In other words,
the disciple has some desires and needs from the guru, apart
from pure spiritual progress, and vice versa, and this will