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one does aradhana, then he will surely be blessed, but he does
not possess the strength or energy for that. What I am saying is
that even if you have to have a really crazed guru, then go ahead
and have one, but as long as you make sure that you remain
completely sincere to him your whole life, you will be truly
blessed. If you remain completely sincere to a guru that is
absolutely crazy, all your kashays (inner enemies of anger, pride,
deceit and greed) will come to an end! But you would need to
understand at least this much! The least you can do is reach this
level of understanding that is precisely why the deity is depicted
in stone for you, because given people’s mentality, they cannot
demean it or find fault in a stone effigy. Oh, but no! They even
find fault with the stone, by criticizing the adornments, ‘that
aangi (The silver-plating over the idols of God) is not quite
right’ on the statue. These people are so nitpicking! They are so
analytical, to the extent that they find fault in their guru. Forget
about looking at their own faults, but they even pick faults in the
guru. That is how much ‘alertness’ they have!
I guarantee you that if you were to make any crazed guru
your guru, and you remained sincere to him throughout your
whole life, then it is possible for you to attain moksha within
three lifetimes. Mind you, the guru must be living. People could
not afford to do that, which is why these stone idols have been
established instead.
Questioner: And whatever agna (special directive) the
guru gives us, we have to follow it, don’t we?
Dadashri: Yes, even if that agna is outrageous, you still
have to stick with it. If you want to go to moksha, then if you
make a guru, you have to remain sincere to him throughout your
life. A true disciple is one who finds his own happiness in the
happiness of his guru. He looks for what pleases his guru. And
if he does this his whole life, then all his kashays will end. A
crazed guru is a vehicle for you to get rid of all your own