The Guru and the Disciple
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Questioner: If twenty-five of them are sitting and five of
them benefit and twenty do not; even then it is the guru’s fault?
Dadashri: The guru verily is at fault.
Questioner: What is his mistake?
Dadashri: He does not have charitrabud - the effective
energy through thoughts, speech and acts. He has to nurture and
develop his charitrabud. If we place a block of ice here at night,
whether people know about it or not, everyone will feel its effect,
will they not?
Therefore, charitrabud is necessary, but these gurus don’t
have charitrabud and that is why they get irritated with their
disciples. That is not acceptable, is it? People are the way they
are. They have come to the guru seeking guidance. The guru must
not have any quarrels or conflict with them.
The qualities needed to impart knowledge
Questioner: One is to attain Gnan through one’s own
experience, that is to have spontaneous enlightenment, and the
other to attain it by listening to someone’s sermon; can you explain
the difference between the two?
Dadashri: As far as sermons are concerned, they are the
same as what we read in the scriptures. But it is a different thing if
the one giving the sermon has vachanbud such that his words will
reach deep within you and remain there for months on end.
Otherwise, the sermons of today are such that they enter through
one ear and go out the other; there is no value in these sermons.
There is no difference between their sermons and the books.
We especially need words that are so delivered; that they
will ring in our ears months after we have heard them. Such
sermons are regarded as vitamins for the Soul. Such sermons
happen very rarely. However, the guru needs to have purity of
conduct in worldly interactions. He needs to have charitrabud