The Guru and the Disciple
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only the rich take the benefit. Wherever there are any fees, there
is no religion. We do not charge anyone here. What would happen
if we did? You will spend your money once to get the Gnan, then
you will say, ‘We will practice the Gnan very strongly, but we will
not pay to attend again.’
It is wrong to name names, but I am giving you a synopsis
of what has become of religion today. It is wrong that gurus have
become business-minded. It is wrong to keep fees. Wherever
there are practitioners (trainees), they charge fees. All such things
are useless.
Where there is business of money, there one cannot be
called a ‘guru’. Where tickets are issued, it is called a ‘play.’ But
nowadays people don’t know any better and they go to only the
ones who sell tickets. They adjust to each other better because
they are beggars and so are the gurus, therefore, everything that
goes on is very insincere and completely false.
Then they (gurus) claim they are nispruha (free from desires
or inclination). Why do you make such claims? If you are nispruha
then no one will ever be suspicious about you. And if you are with
spruha (deepest desire and inclination), then no matter what you
say, no one is going to refrain from being suspicious about you
and no one is going to believe you no matter what you say, because
your spruha will say it all.
The demand for fraud is the reason for its supply
Here everyone is trying to fill his stomach and that is the
beggary (bheekh). Everyone is in it for himself. If it is not for the
stomach, then it is for fame. It is for the beggary of fame, beggary
of money and beggary of pride. You can attain anything you want
from a man who has no beggary of any kind. A person who has
beggary has not attained anything or improved himself and so he
cannot help you improve either. Everywhere people have started
a business and the customers keep coming.