Me, My Guru

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Seeing our confused and blank faces she continued “For eg, if she says ‘Keep this Altar Clean – then it’s not a one time job.  Do it everytime you go to your master’s place – infact take time to just go and clean the Altar as many times as possible.  Don’t question it.  Don’t analyse it.  Don’t say ‘it can be cleaned once a month’.. instead do it every day! Do it till you lose yourself completely doing it – only then you actually will understand what Seva is. Why it needs to be done?  What is its benefit?  But, then who has time, interest and commitment – so they’ll never know what seva is. They’ll always ‘interpret’ it their own way or give meaning to it as per their ‘convenience’ but will never get the real or actual meaning..they’ll never know what their Master actually meant. Because they haven’t understood the meaning they’ll never be able to practice it or live it. As they haven’t lived it they’ll never know it.  But they’ll use the word as if they know and mean it…the same applies to every word told by the Master…

Hence” she took a deep breath as she completed the sentence “they’ll never become as great as their Master”

I felt lost as she completed her explanation and so felt others too!

..contd……..