The Guru and the Disciple
57
A conduct deficiency in disciples
In the Kramic path, the guru is at the head and he has two
or three disciples with him, not more. Our scriptures have
expounded on the fact that a true disciple will follow the guru
step-by-step and there will be at least two or three such disciples.
That path is very rigid, is it not? There the guru will tell you to give
away your dinner plate to someone else. Then the disciple will
say, ‘No Sahib, I cannot afford to do that. I will go back home.’
Who would stay there! Therefore, the writers of scriptures have
said that behind each Gnani of the Kramic path there are two or
four disciples, not more.
Questioner: Do the disciples not have even that much
energy force or power to follow through (charitrabud)?
Dadashri: Yes, but where would they get that energy from?
What capabilities do they all have? If they are all eating and one
of them does not get any shrikhand (sweet yoghurt pudding),
then he will get upset. He has so much irritation in just one day
and in just one meal. He keeps getting irritated. In fact, if he gets
less shrikhand than others do, even then he gets irritated. Where
will such people get their charitrabud?
And one day if I say to everyone, ‘If you are served
something that you like, then you should taste it and immediately
pass it on to someone else and eat whatever you do not like to
eat.’ Then what would happen?
Questioner: Everyone would walk away.
Dadashri: Yes, they would walk away. “Good bye, Dada,”
they will say! And later they will greet me by saying, “Jai Shri
Krishna” from afar, from the other side of the fence!
What is it like for the gurus in the Kramic path? The gurus
believe that the vyavahar (interactions) that they are doing is real
and true and they are the doers of it, so this is what one must