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The Guru and the Disciple
is not fit to be gurutam (higher than the highest). Not a single
guru today has ever tried to become laghutam. Everyone is going
towards gurutam. Nevertheless, nobody is at fault here; the
current time cycle has become an obstacle and the intellect has
turned negative. What are all these gurus working towards? Their
business is to find out how to go higher, how to increase their
superiority. They do not want to go lower. They go higher up in
the worldly life and they make a name for themselves by increasing
disciples. This only makes them go lower in nischay (in the realm of
the Self). Consequently, their inner spiritual state declines. Ascending
in the worldly life is a sign of decline in the spiritual realm.
A man leaves behind three human beings, a wife and two
children, and runs away to become a guru. He became tired of
the three at home and so he goes and makes one hundred and
eight disciples! Why did he leave the three behind and latch onto
one hundred and eight? What was wrong with t