| Guru devotion is not cooking, cleaning, washing and | | | | "indenturing" yourself to a spiritual person who is |
| giving money to the Gurus. Guru devotion is not just | | | | training you like a spiritual athlete, to put you in the |
| about crying, feeling sad or getting emotional when | | | | ultimate competition so you do not lose out at the |
| you talk about your Guru. Those are small, small parts | | | | time of death? |
| of it, an extension of Guru devotion. | | | | We thought that going to school every day was a |
| When you think about your Guru, you think about a | | | | prison but we gained freedom from that - we gained |
| person who is extraordinary. Therefore, you cry | | | | education so we can do what we want now. |
| because you have never met such a person who has | | | | Submitting to a qualified Guru or a Guru who cares |
| had such an impact on you. You cry because you are | | | | about us, who is sincere and who has love, is like |
| connected to him as a disciple, and therefore you | | | | everything else in life - by submitting and listening to |
| should push yourself towards your commitments. | | | | someone who can give us knowledge and show us |
| Real Guru devotion is about developing and keeping | | | | the methods to benefit and develop ourselves, we |
| your spiritual qualities. You do not let go of your | | | | will advance in anything we want to do. |
| commitments, you develop the qualities that you see | | | | If we need to be told the same thing again and |
| your Guru embodies, that make you cry. Guru | | | | again, it reflects our selfishness. If the Guru gives us |
| devotion is about keeping your promises and doing | | | | instructions to do something and we say no, then we |
| your sadhanas at all cost. Guru devotion is about not | | | | have not submitted. If we show anger to our |
| harming another person, being very kind to others | | | | teachers, we fight back, we ignore our teachers; if |
| and becoming better and better. Real Guru devotion | | | | we always turn around the instructions they give us, |
| is about destroying the self-cherishing mind. All that is | | | | forget, and have to be reminded, won't that be the |
| Guru devotion because that devotion leads to your | | | | same with everything else that we do in our lives? |
| inner Guru, your natural state of mind - kindness, | | | | If these people choose to be purely selfish, and they |
| commitment and clarity. | | | | come up against a Guru who challenges that |
| People think that when they submit themselves to | | | | selfishness, they either submit or they run. Some |
| the Guru, they become a slave. No way! If you were | | | | students are smart and they do a little at a time. It |
| an indentured servant in the olden days, you may | | | | starts off as little but they push themselves to do it |
| have been made into a slave. But this is not the | | | | all the way eventually. There is no student who |
| olden days! And you have to ask yourself who you | | | | comes in and is immediately perfect in all his actions |
| are "indenturing" yourself to. A wealthy land owner? | | | | but his aspiration, and working towards it, makes a |
| Some noble who owns 500 acres and makes you | | | | very big difference. |
| work in the fields every day? Or are you | | | | |