The Guru and the Disciple
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is with viewing a woman as an object of sexual pleasure. She is a
pure Soul and not a sexual object.
Religion cannot exist wherever money is accepted; money
taken in the form of fees, tax or duty, as a gift, etc. Where money
is taken in these forms, religion cannot exist. Religion cannot happen
where money is involved and vice versa. So this is easy to
understand, is it not? Wherever money and sex are involved, one
is not even a guru.
Things are going to change. Now there will be good gurus.
Good means pure. If a guru has financial difficulty, then you can
ask him what he needs for his sustenance. There should not be
anything else besides this. They should not have needs to become
famous or any such things.
Taking money from anyone creates a separation
Do you think people are happy? They are unhappy to
begin with and then you take money from them? Do people not
go to a guru to get rid of their misery? But then you increase
their misery by charging them twenty-five rupees. You cannot
take even a dime from anyone. Taking anything from anyone is
a separation (judai) with him. And that verily is called sansar
(the worldly life). One wanders around in this life after life. In
such interactions, the taker is the one who wanders. He takes
money because he thinks of the other person as not one of his
own.
If I use anything or spend even a rupee that I have not
earned, for myself, I would become spiritually bankrupt. One
should not spend even a single dime of the disciple’s money. Those
who have started such a business will go into bankruptcy and
waste away whatever siddhis (special spiritual energies) they have
attained. The guru had attracted people with whatever little siddhis
he had attained, but then those siddhis will get used up. Any
siddhis that are misused will be lost.