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The Guru and the Disciple
Dadashri: Yes, moksha cannot occur without such a One.
And what should a satguru be like? He must be free of all
kashayas. Even if we hit him and yell abuses at him, he would still
not have any kashaya. Not only is he free of kashaya but his
intellect (buddhi) should also be completely gone. He should not
have any intellect. If you go to people with intellect, how will you
attain moksha when they have not attained it themselves? So he
should not be affected whether you slap him or yell abuses at him.
If you beat him or throw him in jail, he should remain unperturbed.
He should be beyond all dualities. Do you understand what we
mean by ‘duality’? By duality we mean attributes such as profit or
loss; pleasure or pain; mercy or mercilessness. In duality, if there
is one attribute within, the other attribute will always be there too.
That is duality! So the guru who is free of duality, is a satguru.
In the current time cycle, there are no satgurus. During
certain times, in some places they can be, but otherwise satgurus
do not exist. But people have wrongly assumed that their gurus
as being satgurus. That is why everything is at a standstill;
otherwise, if you had found a true satguru, would you have all
these worries?
There is a great difference between a Guru and a Satguru
Questioner: Everyone nowadays regards his guru as a
satguru. What is that?
Dadashri: In all the religions in India, people consider their
own respective guru as being a satguru. No one uses the term
guru alone; they use the term satguru but its meaning is in the
worldly language. In the worldly life, people refer to a guru with
very high conduct as a satguru, but really, he cannot be considered
a satguru. The quality of his prakruti (worldly attributes) may be
very commendable, he may have inner balance in matters of food,
worldly interaction and personal character, but he has not attained
Self-realization. Without Self-realization he cannot be called a
satguru.