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The Guru and the Disciple 39 Dadashri: If you live with him for a fortnight or so, then you would be able to see his impatience and agitation. If he is easily agitated and unstable, you will not gain any benefits. He should be stable and patient. Moreover, he should not have a single atom of kashayas – inner weakness of anger, pride, deceit, and greed – within him. We can even make do if his kashayas are mild. However, if his kashayas are very strong, and we too have kashayas within us, what can we attain there? Therefore, you cannot make a guru who is full of kashayas. If you annoy him a little, and he shows you his ‘fangs,’ then you cannot have him as a guru. You can m ake someone your guru as long as he has no kashayas or if his kashayas have diminished significantly. Diminished kashaya means he can turn things around without expressing kashayas. It means he turns everything around before he experiences anger, indicating control over his kashayas. Such a guru will do. A Gnani Purush, on the other hand has no kashayas; He has no anger, pride, deceit or greed because He remains detached. He remains separate from the complex of body, mind and speech! Who is a Satguru? Questioner: Now whom can we call a ‘satguru’? Dadashri: It is very difficult to define and identify someone as a satguru. In the language of the scriptures, whom can you call a satguru? Sat is the Atma (the Soul, the Self), so whoever has attained the Soul, that guru is a satguru! Therefore, an ‘Atmagnani (knower of the Soul, Self- realized) can be called a satguru, for he has experienced the Self. Not all gurus have Atma Gnan. So, the one who continuously remains as the eternal element – the Self - is a satguru! The Gnani Purush is a satguru.’ Questioner: Shrimad Rajchandra has said that without a living and directly present satguru, one can never attain moksha.