The Key to Finding a Guru

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The Key to Finding a Guru

Now, if you drive by yourself without a road map, you don’t know. What is just next building? To get there, you may go around the world and get there. Or in the process of going around the world, you may just get lost and fall dead. Yes? Not everybody has the endurance to complete the journey of that kind, which is of uncertain duration, isn’t it? Or you go with a road map. Somebody has told you, this is it, this is it, this is it. You do just that and go with the road map. Still, it’s your effort, but somebody’s guidance. Another way, somebody’s going there, you can see, but this person is going in the right direction, so you just follow him. Another way. Another way is you don’t even trust you’re following him, because one moment you one moment you want to go to the bathroom, but then he will be gone, so you just get onto his bus. Now, anyway you go there, no effort from your side, but there are different aspects of you. You want to go yourself, because there is a certain aspect of you which wants to do things. Isn’t it?

All of you, if I ask you, “Why are you working this hard,” you would say, “Why shouldn’t we live? Don’t I need food? Shouldn’t I feed my children, my wife?” No, I think. I’ll give them a roof and I’ll give you food. You don’t do anything. You simply sit. Okay. You, your wife, your children, I’ll feed them, I’ll give them a roof over their head. You don’t do anything. Just sit quietly. Possible? You’ll go crazy. You want to do many things. Isn’t it? There is something in you that wants to do things. Until that urge is very strong, then you do your own driving. If you’re sensible, use a road map. Otherwise, get lost for awhile, do all kinds of crazy things. When you see you’re not getting anywhere, ask for a road map. With a road map also you can get very confused and lost. Then you’ll drive behind somebody. If you’re doing well that way, fine. If you’re not doing well that way, even there you’re getting lost, then you’ll just get onto somebody’s bus. Now, even if you sleep, you’ll go.

This means that you have to keep yourself aside. If you have to get onto somebody’s bus, you have to keep yourself completely aside. Your personality will not pass. You have to just sit. You don’t decide how fast to drive, what to do, how to swing the bus. You just sit. If he stops, you stop with him. If he goes, you go with him. This is one way of journeying, but you want to drive your own way. Then it involves risks, isn’t it? You’re doing all these various things. What is it that you’re ready for is something that you have to decide.

These four ways I’m talking about are just difficult. You want to do your own thing, hundred percent. You don’t want to depend on anybody, this is a mistake. You want to take a road map and go. You want to follow somebody else’s bus. You just want to sit in somebody else’s bus and go. You don’t mind not being the driver.

What are you ready for right now? You must see that. What I see is before you come to just getting into somebody’s bus, you must go through all those things, otherwise you’ll sit in the bus and want to drive it. You’ll sit in the backseat and want to drive it as you did most of the time. That won’t be good. Before you settle down into a seat, you should exhaust the other aspects, and then you can settle down.

How do you know the bus is going in the right direction? That’s the right question. How do you know this bus is really going there? You really don’t know actually. You have no way of knowing also. This is just that, if you notice that the driver or the bus seem to be traveling a different kind of terrain than you know, then you must get onto it and try it. If you look at the driver, you feel very threatened, but still you want to be there, that means you must get on the bus. If you’re very comfortable, you’re very pleased with the driver, you like the driver, very pleasant, don’t get on the bus, because he belongs to your realm. That’s why you like him so much. He’s just like you. If you sit with someone and for no reason, you’re uncomfortable, your threatened, at the same time, you still want to be there, that means you have found your good. Don’t stand. His ways are normal, but his energy is abnormal. Anything that you don’t understand is abnormal, isn’t it? That’s physics and that’s normal.

Take you time, but when you feel you have done enough, get onto the bus. When you still think you need to do this and that, if you get onto the bus, you’ll sit in the backseat and try to drive. That won’t work.