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liberation and yet they become gurutam. Now is that a
contradiction or not? That is a sign for wandering for countless
lives because all those who have tried to be gurutam in the
worldly life, have fallen. They all became trapped. Tell me, did
they get trapped or not? Only those who became laghutam
were able to swim (through the ocean of life). This path is not
for those who want to be gurutam. Those who try to be
gurutam take a beating and in the end become senseless, and
create obstacles (antaray) in their path to liberation. Do you
understand what I mean by obstacles?
Questioner: How can one get rid of those obstacles
(antaray)?
Dadashri: You have to have the bhaav of laghutam –
the inner intent of beings small - then the obstacles will all go
away. All the obstacles will go away by doing ‘plus-minus’. The
obstacles arose from the inner intent of wanting to be gurutam
and with intent of becoming laghutam, they will all go away.
What do you need gurutam for? What is the advantage
of it? The higher one goes the harder he falls. Instead, what is
wrong with staying at the bottom? Then there will be no
problems! Your bliss will remain with you and when it is time for
your liberation, dharmastikaya - the element of motion - will
automatically take you there; you do not have to do anything.
So become laghutam and everything will be resolved. To
become laghutam is your absolute state (purnapad). This is
my laghutam form and only then can there be a gurutam
form. No one has become gurutam without becoming
laghutam first.
And where I have become laghutam, people are trying
to be gurutam. People want to be guru in the relative world.
They try to be guru only of the relative world. Guru means one
has an inner intent of ‘I want to become someone big and
famous’. Those who try to be laghutam in the relative world