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The Guru and the Disciple
the name of a monk ever remain? One should not have even a
desire to keep his name. Any desire is beggarliness.
Beggary makes you miss the goal of liberation
This beggary does not go away; the beggary for respect,
the beggary for fame, the beggary for sex, the beggary for money…
beggary, beggary, beggary! Have you ever seen anyone without
beggary? There is also the beggary for building temples, so they
involve themselves in building temples. When a person has nothing
to do, he will get involved in everything that will help him earn
fame. Why are you building temples? Do we not have enough
temples in India? But he runs around raising money in order to build
temples. The Lord has said that one will build temples, if it is written
so in the fruition of his karma; why are you getting involved in it?
In India, the human birth is not exclusively for building
temples. One is born in India exclusively to attain moksha. If your
goal is to become ekavtari (attain final moksha after one more
life), you will attain that in fifty, a hundred, or even five hundred
more lifetimes, should you let go of any other goals you may have.
You may get married, have children, become a doctor, build a
bungalow, but it is all immaterial. However, keep only one goal,
which is, since you are born in India, you want to acquire all that
is necessary to go to moksha. Come down to this one goal and
then you will find a solution.
There must not be any beggary of any kind within. You
should not get involved with fundraising for religion and neither
should you instigate anyone else to do so. You should not do,
make others do, or instigate others into doing anything. I have
become free from all beggary, even the one of building temples,
because I do not need anything in this world. I do not have any
beggary for fame, beggary for money, beggary for gold or beggary
for disciples. Thoughts about money or sex do not arise at all.
How can there be any beggary when even mere thoughts about
these, do not arise within?