Aptavani-9
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Dadashri: This is the very meaning of yoga. One gets
hold of either yoga of gurutam, excelling in worldly life, or yoga
of laghutam; it is one or the other.
With the yoga of gurutam one becomes heavy; he
becomes gurutam. Guru means heavy and when something is
heavy; it will sink. As he sinks, he also takes down everyone
around with him. When does a guru not sink? He will not sink
when he has the gurukilli – the key that helps him float. Laghu
means light and guru means heavy. Those who want to be big
and famous have grabbed on to the gurutam yoga. Everyone
wants to be big and they have all taken a beating in the process,
they have died in such beatings, life after life. No one succeeds
because how many can take the first prize in a horse race? How
many horses win the trophy? If five million ‘horses’ run a race,
how many come first? The first prize goes only to the winning
horse, does it not? The rest die huffing and puffing. Therefore,
practice laghutam yoga.
Questioner: Yes, but what is the vidhi - special process
- for it?
Dadashri: The vidhi is to become a disciple of everyone
in this world. If someone calls you unworthy then become his
disciple by saying, ‘You are my guru because you made me
aware that I am unworthy.’
The world’s guru? No the world is the guru
And people tell me, ‘We want to make you our guru.’ I
tell them, ‘No. Do not make me a guru. There are many gurus
elsewhere. I have made the whole world my guru. I consider
you all as my guru. Why are you making me a guru?’
I am nobody’s guru. I am a laghutam Purush. I am not
naïve that I would become a guru. I have never been anyone’s
guru. I live as the disciple of the whole world and I tell everyone
to become laghutam. Whoever wants to become a guru let him