The Guru and the Disciple
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all the gurus in the past. What is a guru? A guru is someone who
practices everything he preaches so others can naturally do the
same. Do you understand that?
Questioner: The idea that I too would automatically attain
what the guru practices is difficult for me to conceive.
Dadashri: In that case, the books are better than the guru
is. Do the books not advise, ‘Do this, do that, do the other?’ So
the books are better than the living beings. And you are expected
to bow down before the living gurus.
Questioner: That helps one become humble, does it not?
Dadashri: What good is that humility? What good does it
do to go to a place your entire life and yet attain nothing? What
good is the water that does not even wet our clothes? So all this is
useless, it is a waste of time and energy!
Did you not understand? If I tell you to give up smoking,
but you cannot do so, then you should know that the fault is mine;
that inherently is a fault within me. If, in spite of all your efforts,
you still cannot give it up, what is the reason behind it? The reason
is my fault; it is because some fault lies in the one giving you the
instruction.
If anyone with vachanbud (energy or power of speech
that is effective in the other person) says for you to do something,
then it would work. Otherwise, when this energy of speech is
lacking, the disciple does not progress. It is simply a wrong habit
that one has acquired of telling others to do things.
The total capability of the guru
There should be a rule everywhere that the guru should be
the one doing everything. Why do people go to a guru? These
gurus cannot do anything and so they put the responsibility on
others and the disciples by telling them to do things. That is why
our people have started believing this. The gurus reprimand them