The Guru and the Disciple
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right? Will it stick without glue? When I was twenty-five years
old, I had gone to a certain guru. He told me, ‘You will understand
all this if you keep faith in me,’ so I asked, ‘For how long?’ He
replied, ‘For six months.’ I said to him, “Sir, it does not come
even now! Apply such glue so that my ‘stamp’ will stick. Here I
am trying to stick it; I am trying to make my faith stick but it keeps
falling off. Now tell me something that will make faith come to
me.” What do you think? Should you have to keep faith or should
it come to you naturally?
Questioner: It should come naturally.
Dadashri: Yes, naturally. When I told him to say something,
he responded, ‘How can that be so? You have to keep faith. Do
all these people not keep faith?’ I told him that doing that did not
suit me. For how long can faith without ‘glue’ stick? You need
glue to make it stick immediately and not have it come off ever
again. The paper will tear, but it will not come off. If he tells you
that your ‘glue’ is not enough, then you should tell him, ‘No, the
stamp is mine, but you have to apply the glue (faith). If you do
not apply the glue, the stamp comes off even before he stamps
it, and I end up paying the penalty. Paste the glue on the stamp
and if you have run out of glue, make a paste out of wheat flour.’
Therefore, faith is something that remains once it is established;
it cannot be removed. One can get tired of stamping, but it will
not come off.
The thoughts, speech and acts that make faith arise
Questioner: When faith comes, on what basis does it
come?
Dadashri: It comes based on one’s guru’s conduct,
effective thoughts, speech and acts (charitra). There is energy
behind his conduct. You do not need to establish faith where one’s
speech, conduct and humility win your heart; it will definitely be
established on its own. I tell people not to keep any faith here, but