The Guru and the Disciple
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your matbhed will lessen, and you will not experience worries or
clashes at all. If you experience clashes then he cannot be a guru;
he is a phony!
Do not waste your life stuck with one guru
People get stuck after having just one guru; you should not.
If you are not satisfied, then change your guru. Where you feel a
pleasing quiescence of the mind, where you do not experience
dissatisfaction, where the mind rests, that is where you should
stay. But do not get stuck believing as others have done. Many
lifetimes have been ruined in this way. The human birth does not
come very often and you are wasting it if you sit and stagnate. By
searching in this way, one day you will find the right guru, will you
not? You want to find the main thing. He who searches will find it.
Where a person does not want to look and takes the approach,
‘Oh well! We will go where our friends go,’ everything is ruined.
Guru and Gnani
Questioner: The person we have accepted to be our guru
is not a Gnani. You are a Gnani. So do we keep both the guru and
the Gnani or do we forget the guru?
Dadashri: Keep your guru. You need a guru for everything.
If he is a guru involved in worldly interactions, then he would be
considered beneficial because he looks out for you. If you face
any difficulties in your worldly life, you have to go to him. You
need a worldly guru. You should not push him aside. The Gnani
Purush shows you the instruments for your liberation; he does not
meddle with vyavahar (worldly life interactions). Therefore, the
Gnani Purush is for moksha. Your guru and the Gnani have nothing
to do with each other.
You are not to let go of that guru. You must keep that guru.
How would you conduct your worldly affairs without a guru? From
the Gnani Purush you can learn about nischay (Self), if you want
to. The other guru will help you in your worldly life. He will give