The Guru and the Disciple
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Therefore, you cannot look at this in any other way. Listen! If you
wanted to cut down the tree, you should not have grown it in the
first place and if you want to grow it, then do not cut it. This has
been my principle from the beginning! What is your principle?
When the time comes, should you cut it down quickly?
Therefore, whomever you praise, you should not criticize.
If you have praised him for forty years, and in the forty-first year,
you criticize him, then you will lose all that you had gained in the
forty years and on top of that, you bind a karmic fault.
Do not worship anyone; if you do, then your reverence for
him should not break. Sincerity is the essential requirement of
spiritual progress. This is all you need to understand.
Who is at fault in this?
Questioner: But in this world, whoever we consider
praiseworthy, as long as they behave in a way that is acceptable
to us, that relationship will last. And if the other person does
something even slightly wrong, then our relationship will spoil!
Dadashri: Yes, it becomes devastated. Not only does it
spoil, but one also becomes an adversary of the other person.
Questioner: Whatever good feelings he had for that person
goes away.
Dadashri: It goes away and on top of that, he becomes an
opponent.
Questioner: Then whose mistake is it?
Dadashri: The ‘one’ who sees the mistake, it is his mistake!
There is nothing wrong in this world. The world is for ‘seeing’ and
‘knowing,’ what else? What are you calling right and wrong? It is
your intellect within that is deceiving you.
Questioner: But the one who sees things as right or wrong
is the one at fault, is that not what you are saying?