๐๐จ๐๐๐ฒ, ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฎ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ฆ๐. ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฎ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ฆ๐!
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ '๐๐ช๐ง๐ช' ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฒ๐
In today's article, Sadhguru answers whether meeting oneโs Guru means that one has escaped the cycle of rebirth.
๐๐ณ ๐ ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ ๐บ๐ ๐๐๐ฟ๐, ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐บ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ?
๐๐ช๐๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ: If someone has come in touch with you, does that mean it is their last life?
๐๐๐๐๐๐ช๐ง๐ช: Someone asked me a while ago, โAre only brahmacharis your disciples?โ Yes, only they are my disciples. When I say brahmacharis, it is not necessarily only people who got an official initiation. Whether they went through a formal process or not is not the point. In some way, they are on the path. Only brahmacharis are my disciples. If they are not brahmacharis, they are not my disciples anyway. If their interest is something else, where is the question of disciple-hood? They cannot be anyoneโs disciple. Being a disciple is not about someone. You are not this personโs disciple or that personโs disciple. If you are a disciple, you are a disciple, thatโs all. If you are a devotee, you are a devotee. There is no question of you being a devotee of this God or that God โ that is just foolishness. You are a devotee and thatโs all. It is a quality.
๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐
There are many who set their eyes upon me but did not take me as their Guru. They may be hanging around here next time around. I may not be here, but they will hang around here because they smelt it, now they want to eat it. โGuruโ means โdispeller of darkness.โ โGuโ means darkness, โRuโ means dispeller. When you say you have a Guru, your darkness is dispelled. Then why would you be here again? Your darkness is dispelled not because you become light. Your darkness is dispelled because you became nothing, you became darkness yourself, so there is no need to dispel anything. If you stay away from it, darkness is a terrible thing. If you become it, darkness is a boundless thing.
Darkness is a terrible thing because you are here as a little piece of something. If you become darkness, it is a boundless thing. If I bless you, โMay you become boundless,โ you feel great. If I bless you, โMay you become darkness,โ you think this is a curse. It is not. Darkness is boundless, boundlessness is darkness.
Dispeller of darkness does not mean that he will put a light bulb into you. Scholars and teachers tried to put a light bulb into you so that you can see something. A Guru is not trying to put a light bulb into you. He is seeing how to obliterate you. If you found a Guru, that means your darkness is obliterated because you become a part of it. There is no darkness for you; there is only boundlessness for you.
๐๐ผ๐ปโ๐ ๐ฆ๐ป๐ถ๐ณ๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ
If you have met your Guru, there is no question of being here again. But if you did not really meet him as a Guru, if you just liked the โsmellโ but did not dare to step into him, thatโs another matter. When you like the smell of roses, wherever the rose is, you go. But do not go on sniffing forever. It is time to step into it and burn because if you do not, you are not using it for the purpose that it is.
If you have an airplane capable of flight but decide to drive it around like a bus, is it wrong? I would not say it is wrong, but it is terrible. To drive an airplane like a car is a terrible and stupid thing to do. Is it wrong to be terrible and stupid? No. Terrible and stupid is bad enough, it need not be wrong. What could take you to a great height, if you use it in a mediocre way, it is just foolish and terrible.
This is not a relationship that endures. If you make this relationship, everything ends. When everything ends, when all things end, a dimension which is not a thing will happen. It is that which this being is longing for, when it is seeking expansion. It is a natural goal. It is just that there is too much diversion on the way.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ '๐๐ช๐ง๐ช' ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฒ๐
In today's article, Sadhguru answers whether meeting oneโs Guru means that one has escaped the cycle of rebirth.
๐๐ณ ๐ ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ ๐บ๐ ๐๐๐ฟ๐, ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐บ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ?
๐๐ช๐๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ: If someone has come in touch with you, does that mean it is their last life?
๐๐๐๐๐๐ช๐ง๐ช: Someone asked me a while ago, โAre only brahmacharis your disciples?โ Yes, only they are my disciples. When I say brahmacharis, it is not necessarily only people who got an official initiation. Whether they went through a formal process or not is not the point. In some way, they are on the path. Only brahmacharis are my disciples. If they are not brahmacharis, they are not my disciples anyway. If their interest is something else, where is the question of disciple-hood? They cannot be anyoneโs disciple. Being a disciple is not about someone. You are not this personโs disciple or that personโs disciple. If you are a disciple, you are a disciple, thatโs all. If you are a devotee, you are a devotee. There is no question of you being a devotee of this God or that God โ that is just foolishness. You are a devotee and thatโs all. It is a quality.
๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐
There are many who set their eyes upon me but did not take me as their Guru. They may be hanging around here next time around. I may not be here, but they will hang around here because they smelt it, now they want to eat it. โGuruโ means โdispeller of darkness.โ โGuโ means darkness, โRuโ means dispeller. When you say you have a Guru, your darkness is dispelled. Then why would you be here again? Your darkness is dispelled not because you become light. Your darkness is dispelled because you became nothing, you became darkness yourself, so there is no need to dispel anything. If you stay away from it, darkness is a terrible thing. If you become it, darkness is a boundless thing.
Darkness is a terrible thing because you are here as a little piece of something. If you become darkness, it is a boundless thing. If I bless you, โMay you become boundless,โ you feel great. If I bless you, โMay you become darkness,โ you think this is a curse. It is not. Darkness is boundless, boundlessness is darkness.
Dispeller of darkness does not mean that he will put a light bulb into you. Scholars and teachers tried to put a light bulb into you so that you can see something. A Guru is not trying to put a light bulb into you. He is seeing how to obliterate you. If you found a Guru, that means your darkness is obliterated because you become a part of it. There is no darkness for you; there is only boundlessness for you.
๐๐ผ๐ปโ๐ ๐ฆ๐ป๐ถ๐ณ๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ
If you have met your Guru, there is no question of being here again. But if you did not really meet him as a Guru, if you just liked the โsmellโ but did not dare to step into him, thatโs another matter. When you like the smell of roses, wherever the rose is, you go. But do not go on sniffing forever. It is time to step into it and burn because if you do not, you are not using it for the purpose that it is.
If you have an airplane capable of flight but decide to drive it around like a bus, is it wrong? I would not say it is wrong, but it is terrible. To drive an airplane like a car is a terrible and stupid thing to do. Is it wrong to be terrible and stupid? No. Terrible and stupid is bad enough, it need not be wrong. What could take you to a great height, if you use it in a mediocre way, it is just foolish and terrible.
This is not a relationship that endures. If you make this relationship, everything ends. When everything ends, when all things end, a dimension which is not a thing will happen. It is that which this being is longing for, when it is seeking expansion. It is a natural goal. It is just that there is too much diversion on the way.