The Guru and the Disciple
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Dadashri: That is fine; there is nothing wrong with that.
But if you have taken his medicine for twelve years and have not
been cured of your sickness, then let the doctor and his medicine
stay at his home! For infinite lifetimes one has done nothing but
this, hence one has to keep wandering!
Questioner: But in all this, is the guru at fault or am I at
fault?
Dadashri: It is the guru’s fault! Right now, I have with me
some sixty thousand people and should any one of them get hurt,
it would be my fault. Why would it be the fault of these poor
people? They are unhappy, which is why they have come to me in
the first place, and if they do not get happiness then it is my fault.
Because the gurus cannot make others happy they say,
‘You are crooked and that is why all this is happening.’ The lawyer
says to his client, ‘Your karma is bad and that is why things did
not work out.’
What should a guru be like? A guru should be someone
that takes away all your suffering! How can you call any other a
guru?
Questioner: But I feel as though it is the fault of my prakruti
(the non-Self complex of thoughts, speech and acts).
Dadashri: There is no problem with the prakruti. No
matter what your prakruti is like, the guru will embrace it. These
gurus that proclaim themselves as gurus, are they doing so without
a selfish intent? People go to any guru and make helpless requests
to them. People disregard the vibrations of the guru’s anger, pride,
deceit and greed. What good are such gurus? But our people
have this bad habit of remaining in whatever shop they visit. They
do not look to see whether their anger, pride, deceit and greed
have diminished or not. They do not check whether their
weaknesses have gone, or whether their separation due to
differences of opinion (matbhed) has decreased, their worries