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kashays, or else a Gnani Purush can wash away your
kashays. Any others, that come in between will only make you
wander around unnecessarily. To remain under the Agna of the
One who is liberated is true religion.
Once you establish someone as your guru and you
worship him, you should not criticize him, no matter how crazed
he is. If the guru’s weaknesses are exposed, you should not
criticize him, at all. If the guru does something wrong, it is
entirely his responsibility and no one else’s. These Khojas do
not criticize their guru. They are so wise! One should adopt that
kind of wisdom. Even the vitarags used to say that one should
adopt any attribute of wisdom one sees in others. Being as
‘developed’ as they are, the Hindus are quick to criticize things,
‘how can this be?’ They have even become the guru’s judges!
They begin to interfere. Cast your intellect aside! I call such
people purva viradhak (the one who has opposed and
criticized in the past life) because all the garbage that was left
over came over into this time cycle. The beings of the fourth time
cycle are the leftover ‘rubbish material’ from the Satyug,
Dwapar and Treta (previous time cycles); therefore they all
possess nothing but viradhana (criticism and opposition). They
talk negatively about those who feed them, they speak ill of the
gurus who teach them, and they even speak negatively about the
mothers and fathers who feed them. They complain to neighbors,
“My dad fights with my mom, he is a worthless.” So the
neighbors will then incite the son. He divulges all the family
secrets to the outside world! Alas, there is no sincerity left at all
these days.
What a Magnificent Principle of the Gnani
Purush!
Once you venerate someone, then no matter what
wrong he does, you do not change the way you view him. My
principle has always been that if a plant that I watered and