The Guru and the Disciple
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Questioner: Does that mean that the disciple should not
take on any effort and that the guru should be the one making all
the efforts?
Dadashri: Yes, the guru should be the one doing everything.
If you have to do it, then you should ask him, “So Sahib, tell me
what you are going to do? If you don’t have to do anything except
give orders then, I would rather obey the orders of my wife. Even
she is capable of reading a book and giving orders, just like you.
Your telling me to ‘do this’, will not work. You help me do
something. You do what I cannot do and what you cannot do, I
will do.” Divide the work in this manner. And if the guru responds,
‘Why should I do it?’ then you can ask him, ‘How will I progress
from doing all this?’ Should you not question the guru this way?
Questioner: But what if the seeker is inadequate, then
what?
Dadashri: You do not have to look at the other person.
The guru must be good. People are like that anyway; people are
not capable. They will say exactly this: ‘Sahib, I am not capable,
which is why I have come to you. Is it for me to even do anything?’
And if he says, ‘You will have to do it,’ then he is not a guru. They
should reason with the guru by saying, ‘Look, if I had to do it,
why would I come to you? Why would I have sought out a
(Samarth) completely capable person like you? Why don’t you
at least think about that! You are completely capable, and I am
weak. I cannot do it, and that is why I have come to you. If I have
to do anything, then what does that make you? It makes you
weak! How can one call y ou samarth? A samarth person can
do anything.’
The gurus have no substance whatsoever and that is why
their disciples have problems and burden. The gurus have no
substance and that is why they find faults with the disciples. If a
husband has no substance, he will find faults with his wife. There
is a popular worldly saying that a weak husband dominates his