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The Guru and the Disciple
that. God resides in that guru. He may be bad, but God lives
within him! You should see him as faultless (nirdosh). It is because
of your previous life’s demerit karma (sin), that you found such a
guru, and became trapped. If not, you would not find such a guru.
It is based upon an account of give and take from your past life
that you met this particular guru. If not, then why did you two
meet? No one else but you came across him. Why has he come
to you?
Later, I did vidhi (special inner blessings), for him and told
him not to speak badly or have ill thoughts or enmity towards the
guru. I made him do pratikraman in his mind and taught him
everything. I paved the way for that man and for the photographs
he threw in the river. I showed him what kind of a vidhi he had to
do and after that he became free.
Then, for twelve months, he did not go to the guru.
Eventually, when the guru realized that someone had kept the
disciple from coming to him, he wrote a letter saying, ‘Come back,
I will not bother you in any way.’ The habit the guru had of exploiting
his disciples had hurt only the guru; his own greed had hurt him!
Now this man does not go there. Is a fish that escaped likely to
enter the net again? He who is greedy should not take up a guru.
The one who has no beggary and is independent may take up a
guru. If the guru tells you, ‘Go away from here,’ then you should
tell him, ‘Sahib, as you wish. I do have a home and my wife is a
guru anyway!’
If you do not have a guru, make your wife your guru!
If you do not find it easy to make a guru, but you feel uneasy
being without one, then you should tell your wife, ‘You just sit
down. I will treat you like a guru.’ Do not look at her face; tell her
to turn around. After all, this idol is a living idol!
Yes, so make your wife your guru. What do you want to
do? Are you not married yet?