DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

 

LOOKING FOR A GURU

 

 

24 April, 1924

 

Baba commented to the mandali:

 

It is easy to renounce the world by wearing ochre-colored clothes, but to find the Master is very difficult. Surrenderance at his feet is even more difficult, but the most difficult of all is to carry out the Master's orders.

 

Take that sanyasi for instance: For years he has been visiting places of pilgrimage, undergoing hardships in the heat and cold. He has made innumerable pilgrimages and will go on making them for years to come. But unless and until he surrenders to a guru, he will gain nothing. He will go on wandering with his face and body covered with ashes.

 

Even if he comes in contact with a real Master, he understands nothing and flings away the cup which is very near his lips! I told him to sit underneath a tree, which he could not do for even half an hour! It is beyond one's capacity to realize God except by the grace of a Master — and it is not easy to gain that grace. It requires the preparation of births and births to be worthy of it. Therefore, those who are living in the intimate contact of the Master are truly blessed.

 

Later, describing a real lover of God, Baba said:

 

As a thirsty man under the scorching sun in the desert values water more than pearls or diamonds, so also a true lover of God only thirsts for Him and considers everything else as dust before Him! A real lover is not after name, fame or wealth. He only yearns for God, his Beloved. He who does not possess this attribute is a man full of self-interest!

 

 

 

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