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The Guru and the Disciple
You need a guru that will make your heart happy; a guru that will
still your heart forever, a guru over whom you will never spoil
your mind. Make such a person your guru. Make the one with
whom you will feel peaceful forever, your guru; you will never
have negative feelings towards him after making him a guru.
Otherwise, you will have differences with him later. If differences
occur after having accepted him as a guru, do not allow those
differences. If, once you have accepted him, you start to judge
him by thinking, ‘Some guru he turned out to be!’ then that is not
acceptable. Tell your buddhi, ‘He cannot turn out any different.
He is the same person that you saw before.’
So what did I say? Make someone your guru that your
eyes will accept. Then one day, if that guru gets upset with you,
do not look at that. You should look at him the same way you did
when you accepted him. Did you not approve him? What a
woman saw in her husband the day she approved him as her
husband, is the same face she will hang on to, even if his face
becomes ruined because of small pox. What else can she do?
Only then can her life go on; how else is she to pass her days?
Similarly, you should see the guru in the same light if you want to
get rid of your swachhand (ego and intellect guided acts). You
should not look for faults in your guru. Once you choose a guru;
that is it! Live your life without looking at a single fault of his.
Otherwise, you can go somewhere else. Therefore, find one that
is acceptable to you and then do not find faults in him. But people
do not understand this point and then they choose gurus.
The Gnani Purush is the idol of faith
Questioner: If we have faith (shraddha) in a guru
regardless of what he is like, will that faith bear fruits?
Dadashri: Your faith will bear fruits only if you do not
develop negative feelings and intent (abhaav) for him, even when
he acts crazy.