even the alphabet can be learned. So then, how can one
worship God without a guru? Even if a person wants to go to
a railway station, and is lost, he will need a ‘guru’. A guru is
needed, every step of the way. But for moksha, only a Gnani
is needed!
Where there is no ‘doership’ left, there is the grace of
the Gnani. The one who bestows liberation (mukti) is a
Gnani.
A true worldly guru is the one who points you to the right
path, just like a ‘point man’. Those who change the course of
the path and lead you in the wrong direction are the gurus of
today’s world. ‘Guru’ means heavy. And ‘heavy’ means that not
only does he drown himself, but he also drowns others who sit
in the same boat with him. If a guru has a ‘guru-key’ (gurukilli);
he does not let his disciples drown. “I am the disciple of the
whole world,” is the gurukilli! The one who does not have the
awareness of, ‘this is my disciple’, even for a second, has the
authority to make disciples.
Once the guru’s place is established in the heart, the true
disciple will not refute any adverse developments in the guru’s
behavior, speech or even his delirious or crazed state. Only
one’s uninterrupted sincerity will take one to moksha! It is very
treacherous to refute the guru after accepting him as your guru.
The guru is the fifth ghati (destroyer) karma. No one should
see anything negative in his guru; otherwise, it is better not to
accept the guru in the first place. It is acceptable for one to not
be devoted to one’s guru, but one must not refute him. Human
beings nowadays, have this affliction from their previous lives:
they cannot remain quiet, they cannot refrain from finding faults
in the guru, or even criticizing him!
You do not make someone a guru; the guru happens to
you. The one who settles and pleases your heart, as soon as you
cast your eyes on him, is the one that should establish the ‘guru’s
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