Leaving The Guru
What happens to those who leave their Gurus and go away without completing their training? Firstly, it isn’t the disciples prerogative to join the Guru but it is the other way round. The Guru is the one who selects his disciples. It’s the same method employed outside in the material world too. Institutions like Harvard or Cambridge select the candidates. Everyone may aspire to join but hardly few get to. Likewise, the Guru selects his own disciples and trains them. The training starts at the place where the Guru had left off earlier. This means the association of the Guru with his disciple is eternal . Whenever the disciple gets off his training, at that juncture he has to return back in some other life. Here let me give you a story to understand the truth about Guru’s teachings. Once a haughty Brahmin came to Swami Samarth Ramdas and demanded that the Swami teach him. Ramdas taught that Brahmin for some time. Everyday the disciples were supposed to go to the town to beg for foo...