BRAHMO: How does one cultivate the spirit of dispassion? Why dont all attain it? MASTER: Dispassion is not possible unless there is satiety through enjoyment. You can easily cajole a small child with candies or toys. But after eating the candies and finishing its play, it cries, I want to go to my mother. Unless you take the child to its mother, it will throw away the toy and scream at the top of its voice. The members of the Brahmo Samaj are opposed to the traditional guru system of orthodox Hinduism. Therefore the Brahmo devotee asked the Master about it. The need of a guru BRAHMO: Is spiritual knowledge impossible without a guru? MASTER: Satchidananda alone is the Guru. If a man in the form of a guru awakens spiritual consciousness in you, then know for certain that it is God the Absolute who has assumed that human form for your sake. The guru is like a companion who leads you by the hand. After the realization of God, one loses the distinction between the guru and the disciple. That creates a very difficult situation; there the guru and the disciple do not see each other. It was for this reason that Janaka said to Sukadeva, Give me first my teachers fee if you want me to initiate you into the Knowledge of Brahman. For the distinction between the teacher and the disciple ceases to exist after the disciple attains to Brahman. The relationship between them remains as long as the disciple does not see God. THE GOSPEL OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA,Chapter 10
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