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The Guru and the Disciple
Today’s gurus are gurus of Kaliyug. They have some kind
of self-interest. “I wonder how he (the disciple) can be useful to
me?” is always at the back of their minds. They have such thoughts
in their minds even before they meet you. If a doctor were to go
there, the moment he sets eyes on the doctor, he will think about
the ways the doctor can be useful for him. He will welcome the
doctor. Hey you! What need do you have of a doctor? He is
thinking about all of this in self-interest. You should never get your
work done from those who have self-interest. You should go to
someone who does not want anything and is not selfish. With a
selfish person, he has his self-interest and you have yours. If there is
any self-interest in a guru-disciple relationship, then there is no real
guru and no real disciple. There should not be any self-interest here.
If you are not selfish, you can tell the guru, ‘Sir, I will leave
you the day I see any selfishness in you. I will curse you and
leave. You may let me stay if you want to. I will not let you be
without food and drink, but do not have any selfishness.’
Yes, you need a guru in whom you do not see any self-
interest. But today, the gurus are greedy and disciples have intense
greed; the two get together, so how can anything worthy come
out of that? Then both continue playing their own games.
Mainly it is because people have lalacha that these
fraudulent gurus continue to thrive. A real guru is never fraudulent;
there are few such gurus out there, are there not? This world is
not without them but they are hard to find, are they not? Only the
seekers with very good merit karma find them.
The greedy guru and the intensely greedy disciple
Then there are gurus who take money for visiting and gracing
people’s homes with their footsteps! Why don’t you bless a poor
man’s home with your footsteps? Why do you treat the poor this
way? Don’t you have to think about the poor too? I told one man
who did this, that he was wasting his money and time. Why don’t