False Gurus

False Gurus

One day as I was passing the Panchavati on my way to the pine grove, I heard a bullfrog croaking. I thought it must have been seized by a snake.

After sometime, as I was coming back, I could hear still its terrified croaking. I looked to see what the matter was and found that a water snake had seized it.

The snake could neither swallow it nor give it up. So there was no end to the frog’s suffering. I thought that had it been seized by a cobra it would have been silenced

after three croaks at the most. As it was only a water- snake, both of them had to go through this agony. A man’s ego is destroyed by three croaks at the most.

As it was only a water snake, both of them had to go through this agony. A man’s ego is destroyed after three croaks, as it were, if it gets into the clutches of a real teacher.

But if the teacher is an `unripe’ one, then both the teacher and the disciple undergo endless suffering. The disciple cannot get rid either of his ego or of the shackles of the world.

If a disciple falls into the clutches of an incompetent teacher, he does not attain liberation.

Om Namah Shivay