The Guru and the Disciple
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you for? Why have you published these books? Why have you
built this temple?’ Would there not be someone to question such
things?
If a blind person says, ‘When I make my own eyes and see
through them, then I am a real man,’ would we not laugh at him?
This is how people talk. A professor at college needs students
and the students need the professor. But for the students to say
that the professor is not necessary is crazy. What kind of mania
has arisen nowadays? The Gnani Purush and the gurus are nimits;
such statements eliminate these nimits altogether.
The Gnani Purush is a nimit and you have the upadaan
(spiritual development). It does not matter how ripe is the
upadaan. Without the nimit of the Gnani Purush, this one work
of spiritual learning leading to Self-realization is such that, it cannot
happen. Self-realization is impossible without a Gnani Purush. The
essence of what I am trying to convey is that it will not happen
without a nimit. This is applicable ninety-nine percent of the time;
however, there is a one percent exception where it may even
happen without a nimit. But this exception cannot be taken as a
rule. The general rule is that it will happen only through a nimit.
An exception is a different thing. In a rule, there is always an
exception to that rule. That is the definition of a rule!
But how far have people gone? First, they claim, ‘Every
element (vastu) is separate. One element does not do anything
for any other element.’ This statement from the supreme vision of
the enlightened ones has been brought down to the level of worldly
talk and this confuses the seeker. The seeker then feels that no
one person can do anything for another.
Questioner: They are saying that no one can do anything
for anyone else.
Dadashri: Now that statement is filled with a very grave
error and tremendous liability.