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Questioner: Dada we need to become free from this.
Dadashri: It is a very dangerous trap! Yet when the
unfolding circumstances call for it, it is our duty to help people.
However, it must unfold as a circumstance (udaya). There is
nothing to gain from becoming a guru; it must come as result of
unfolding circumstances. The circumstances will unfold on their
own. It is a different matter if you are forced to sit on the seat
you do not want to. Therefore you should not have any
expectations for it.
Is anyone likely to fail, if he were to grade his own paper?
Questioner: No one will.
Dadashri: If a person examines his own paper, gives
himself a grade and fails himself, then I would consider his action
as a true judgment, but that does not happen, does it?
Questioner: And here one even struggles to appear
humble on the outside.
Dadashri: That is why I call it killing the Self -
atmaghat! It will lead to one’s suicide. All one has to ‘see’ is
whether people are attracted. Are they? No, they are not. Then
it means that a great amount of the disease of ‘I know’ exists
within. Attraction verily is purity! Attraction will occur as purity
begins.
Questioner: No, Dadaji, people do get attracted. They
get attracted for a little while, do they not?
Dadashri: No. Not at all! Not even a bit! No one will
stay. The bulb will blow out on the first day. People will manage
to overlook for a couple of days but not for long. This here is
a Gnani Purush and that is why you are able to know the faults
and mistakes (dosh) that lie within you. Otherwise, how can you
know of their existence? The ship will start sailing south! It
heads south because the compass is malfunctioning. That
compass will show south as being the north. Otherwise, the