Who has a Right to be a Guru?
(Continued...) Being a part (fragment) of God Himself, human beings have always had a very close relationship with God. This relation is natural and on-its-own. It has not been made by someone. But the relationship made with Guru is artificial, it is man-made. Through a "made" relationship one does not get benefit, instead bondage happens; because we are bound only by the 'made' relations of the world.
Think, those people who have made Guru, have they all benefited? Did they get tattva-gyaan(knowledge)? Did they attain God? Did they get liberated? If someone has got, then its a matter of huge pleasure, but we do not believe it.
On one hand are those people who made guru, on the other are those who did not make guru but dosat-sang (company of saints) - what difference do you see in those two? Think, which one gives more benefit - making a guru or getting satsang (company of saints)?
Guruji will liberate us - thus thinking one gets lax in spiritual practice. That is why the amount of Raag-Dvesh (attraction-repulsion) that is found in guru-makers, that much is not found in satsang-doers. If someone even gets good-company, then he does not fight or quarrel with others, but those who consider themselves disciples of some guru, they even sometimes beat up disciples of other gurus. No special improvement is seen in guru-makers. Only an illusion develops that we have made a Guru, nothing except this happens. That is why there is no such rule that just by making a guru one can be liberated.
Making and becoming a Guru is a very dangerous task, it is not a mere show. A man goes to a garments shop and says that I want so-and-so dress. If the shopkeeper takes the price of the dress, but does not give the dress, then is it right? If he could not give the dress, then why did he take the money? And if he took the money then why didn't he give the dress?
Same way if one makes disciples, takes offerings and does not liberate them, then is it right? "First become my disciple, then I will liberate" - This is cheating.
You got yourself worshiped, took offerings, made disciple and did not liberate, then why did you become a Guru? If you become a Guru, then make the disciple attain God, and if you don't make him attain God, then you have absolutely no right to become a Guru.
If you cannot benefit the disciple, then let him go elsewhere. What right do you have to stop him if you yourself cannot liberate him? You do not benefit him, and yet do not let him go elsewhere, then this way you have devastated the disciple! You have made his human-birth meaningless! Now how will he liberate himself?
That is why, as far as possible, one should not form the Guru-disciple relationship.
Without forming that relationship if you follow the Saint's advice, then you will benefit, and even if you don't follow, then too there will be no loss either.
Purport is that in NOT making the Guru-disciple relationship, there is only benefit, no loss. But if you form that relationship, then upon not following Guru's words there will be loss.
Reason is that if the Guru is real, and if you ignore even a single word of him, if you don't obey his words, then it is an offense to the Guru, which even God cannot forgive.
'शिवक्रोधाद गुरुस्त्राता गुरुक्रोधाच्छिवो न हि
तस्मात्सर्वप्रयत्नेन गुरोराज्ञां न लंघयेत' ... (Gurugita)
ie: "Guru can protect even from Lord Shankar's anger, but even Lord Shankar cannot protect from Guru's anger. Therefore in anyway, never disobey Guru's words."
'राखइ गुर जो कोप बिधाता, गुर बिरोध नहिं कोऊ जग त्राता' (Maanas, Baalkand 166/3)
ie.: "If God is angry, Guru can save you, but if Guru gets angry, then no one in the world can save you".
Narayana ! Narayana !! Narayana !!!