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| Evolution of Love Part 2 |
| 'THERE ARE MANY GURUS - BUT VERY FEW DISCIPLES; GOOD ASPIRANTS ARE NOT AS CHEAP AS BLACKBERRIES' Mother generally liked only two people to live with her at one time, and would not tolerate more than three of us. The usual practice was that when household duties did not cause us to be busy elsewhere we would all sit in her room. Sometimes there would be no conversation but occasionally we would have very interesting ones. Mother had an unending stock of anecdotes and stories to illustrate and impress any point. Her object was always to make it clear to us how in spite of the fact that there were innumerable sadhus, only a very few were in earnest; how they would forget their object only to wander down into bye-lanes, passing the whole of their lives in slumber, as it were. She would say, “I always tell you about the pitfalls so that you may avoid them. If a seeker proceeds along the right Path, however slow he may be - he will surely reach the goal— it is because he keeps on wandering down the bye-lanes that his journey never ends. It seems to me that these sadhus are like pilgrims who intend to go to Benares but instead of (traveling there) they put their luggage on their heads and roam about in the streets of their own city. All this is only maya.” Mother would never criticize outsiders except before a few chosen few. She would say: “A religious organization on a big scale is bound to fail because good aspirants are not as cheap as blackberries.” She also said, “There are many gurus but very few good disciples. I rarely come across a sadhu who seems to be following the correct path. All sadhus are moving in the domain of avidya – but can anyone be called a sadhu if he is not earnest in getting beyond this domain?” A very well-known sadhu in Bengal — a highly educated Sanskrit pandit clothes himself like a female, puts on ornaments and calls himself a female friend of Krishna. One gentleman went- to see him and on his return related all that he had seen and all that he did there. After his departure mother laughed at this ludicrous and unnecessary way of sadhana adopted by this Sadhu. She said: "So much energy is being directed to foolish fancies. It is generally with the object of creating an impression on others that most of these people while away their time on such absurdities." |
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