The Guru

[Guest guest]

Meeting my fellow disciples was a strange experience - exhilarating

but disappointing. Nice, emotional people, more devotees than

disciples, who considered their Guru a provider of instant solutions

for puny little problems of their day-to-day lives rather than an

ocean of boundless knowledge that leads to salvation and completeness.

 

When I asked Gurudev about why those people left everything on him

instead of working to find their answers, he replied, " Because it's

easier. They suffer because of their wrong deeds and expect me to rid

them of their pain. They are weak, comfort-seekers incapable of

handling the intensities of higher Sadhanas. They might not carry on

my legacy. Still, I love them and I must pay for their sins even if it

means sacrificing my own life. "

 

I touched his feet with a promise never to be part of that mob.