The Guru and the Disciple
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you invite some poor man, in whom God resides, to come to
grace and bless your home with his feet instead? But people are
so greedy that they think, “When the Guru sets foot in my home,
my work will be done; after fifteen years my son will have a son of
his own!”
Questioner: That is because people have such a faith.
Dadashri: No, it is because they are intensely greedy
(lalachu). It is not faith. That is not called faith. Lalachu people
will take a conditional vow - a baadha (for example a person will
give up eating rice until his specific wish is fulfilled) for something.
They will even take a conditional vow on the instructions of a mad
guru. If someone tells them, ‘This man is crazy but he grants children
to couples.’ People will fall at his feet calling him ‘Bapji,’ and if a
child is born to them, they will give him the credit. What can you
say to people with lalacha?
People even tell me, ‘Dada has given us all this,’ so I tell
them, ‘Dada does not give anything.’ But they give all the credit
to Dada. It happens because of their merit karma and my
yashnaam karma (karma that brings fame and credit). When the
two are present, then your work gets done with a mere touch of
my hand. But people say that I (Dada) am the one who does all
this. I tell them that is not so and they are getting that which is their
own. Why would I do anything? Why would I take on such trouble
when I do not want anything? Get your work done from the one
who does not want anything, who does not have any expectations
or beggary of any kind.
What I am saying is that you may have my footsteps bless
your home, but do it without expectations of any monetary or
material gains. It is fine if there is such a nimit and the work gets
done.
Questioner: Can one do it for his own betterment and not
for his home?