The Guru and the Disciple 143
as far as your difficulty demands. I will stop the moment you start to become greedy.
Hand over your miseries to me and, if you have faith( vishvas) in me, they will not come back to you. But they will if you lose faith in me. So if you have any difficulties, tell me,‘ Dada, I am surrendering my miseries to you.’ If I take away your miseries, then you will get somewhere, otherwise, how will you?
I have come to take away the miseries of the world. Keep your happiness with you. Do you have a problem with that? If someone like you gives me money, what am I going to do with that money? I have come to take away miseries. Keep your money; it will be useful to you. There is no exchange of money where there is a Gnani Purush, he comes to take away your miseries, not increase them.
Purity of the Gnani
If I were to take money from people, people would give me as much as I wanted. But what am I going to do with money? I have attained the status of this Gnani only when all beggary( bheekh) left.
In America, on Gurupurnima day( on this day, devotees have the divine full darshan of their guru or Gnani), people would put gold chains weighing as much as three ounces around my neck and I used to give them back; what was I going to do with them? One woman began to cry and pleaded,‘ You have to accept my chain.’ So I asked her if she will wear a chain if I were to give her one. She replied,‘ I do not have a problem with that, but I cannot take yours.’ I told her,‘ I will have someone else give it to you.’ If I were to give someone a very heavy gold chain and make them promise to wear it even at night when she went to sleep, is she likely to wear it? She would return it the very next day and say,‘ Here, Dada take your chain back.’ If there is happiness in gold, then the more gold you get, the happier you