How to Tell True Teachers From the False || Acharya Prashant

Acharya Prashant

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00:00The real teacher has a great responsibility to make himself unnecessary.

00:08What if the teacher is known by his followership?

00:19And mind you, the real ones hardly ever had any followership.

00:28It is the primary duty of the teacher to make himself redundant.

00:33You have helped someone only if he no longer needs your help.

00:40But if the guru has his own self-interest in mind, he will continue to ensure that you

00:46return to him day after day.

00:53And you can continue to return to him only if he pleases you.

00:57That's one clear indication of the self-interest of the guru.

01:02The real ones were always myth-busters, iconoclasts.

01:08They never pleased their audiences.

01:10That is why they received the treatment that they did, discarded, ostracized, stoned, killed,

01:20crucified.

01:21They had no concern for the status quo.

01:25They had no concern for what you like.

01:28They were not pleasant.

01:29They were not smiling.

01:33They didn't want to make you feel good.

01:41They were not bothered whether you return to them or not.

01:49They did not make arrangements that a thousand people must come to me.

02:01The teacher's role is to show that a teacher is not needed.

02:06That is the rightful role of the teacher.

02:10I repeat, the teacher's role is to show that you are unnecessarily coming to the teacher.

02:16You are self-sufficient.

02:17Are the gurus doing that?

02:24Does it happen that they ensure that people do not return?

02:29Does it happen that they attack so vigorously that people feel bad?

02:37The real teacher, at least if you look at the prominent teachers in India, the real

02:45ones have always been shown carrying weapons.

02:49They were not pleasing personalities.

02:51They were not like this.

02:58In Zen, you have stories of masters who would always be carrying a stick and hit hard.

03:03Yes, of course, they would not please you.

03:07They would not allow you to go to sleep.

03:09They would wake you up.

03:10And if you don't wake up, you get a tight slap.

03:15But if you are somebody who counts numbers, then you won't be given a slap.

03:21He won't give you a slap.

03:24You know a particular Zen story?

03:28The master asks a particular question, a mischievous student unnecessarily keeps raising his hand.

03:36There are people who are fond of talking, talking, can't listen to the teacher.

03:46So the master calls that one here and cuts off his finger, cuts off his finger.

03:53And the story says that the disciple was immediately enlightened.

04:02In Zen, that is what is there, immediate enlightenment.

04:05The real teacher would never be too acceptable.

04:16He would not look like a pleasing fatherly figure.

04:26Because only that pleases you, which allows you to continue you as you.

04:33And the teacher's responsibility is to not to let you continue as you.

04:42What is it that you find pleasurable?

04:44You find only that pleasurable, which is an extension, a continuation of your ways, of

04:50your ego.

04:52So if you really like a teacher and you say, wow, nice one, I want to go to him, it only

04:58proves that he is some kind of a plum cake for you, pleases your senses.

05:04You like going to a shopping mall, you also like going to satsangs, you are the same.

05:10The liking too is coming from the same center.

05:27I never lost it.

05:28How did you lose it?

05:29First of all, nobody has ever lost it.

05:33You explain to me how you lost it.

05:37How did you lose it?

05:45How did you lose it?

05:48Life never allows you to lose the truth.

05:51I'm again and again saying, you cannot afford to lose the truth.

05:56You try and you had a tight slap.

05:59Now how can you lose the truth?

06:02So tell me how did you lose the truth?

06:06You forget and you are beaten black and blue.

06:09Look at your wounds.

06:10Look at how life is beating you.

06:12Look at the scars on the psyche.

06:14Look at all the hurt, the suppression, the repression in the mind.

06:18Does somebody have to remind you that your hand is carrying a wound, the wound is full

06:30of pus, hurts, does somebody have to come to remind you that you are hurt?

06:38Yes.

06:39Explain to you why is this hurt?

06:42Come on.

06:43Why is that hurt does not matter.

06:45First of all, the acknowledgement that there is hurt.

06:50Does somebody have to come to tell you that you are hurt?

06:53It is paining and aching and it is killing you.

06:56Do you need somebody else to come and tell you CCC you are bleeding?

07:01CCC it's stolen.

07:02Does that happen?

07:03Everybody knows that.

07:04Whenever something is a myth, then it can go away without any loss to you.

07:29If the hurt in the arm is a myth, then it should disappear immediately.

07:36Do your wounds answer honestly, do your wounds keep disappearing immediately or do we keep

07:41carrying them as memories, identities?

07:42Oh, don't shrug it away in laughter.

07:43It's an important matter.

07:44If I think that it's real, don't talk in terms of if, do you think they're real or not?

07:45Nothing is real.

07:46Are you saying that now?

07:47Or do you say that in moments when you are angry, frustrated, depressed and violent?

08:03Don't laugh it away.

08:05It is easy to intellectualize stuff here.

08:08I'm talking of real life.

08:13It is very easy to say, you know, if you are the Sachidanand Brahm, then anger does not

08:17matter.

08:18Does anger not matter really when you are fighting and negotiating with the man on the

08:22street?

08:23Does it matter to you or not?

08:26So don't just give hypothetical and ideal answers, answer from your life, answer from the way

08:34you interact with your boss, your wife, your kid, the man on the street, the stranger,

08:40the robber.

08:41Look at that, stare the facts in the face, look at the way the world is, violent, chaotic,

08:50anarchic.

08:51What is the point in talking of great ideals?

08:58You hear this sound, this is what the world is, this celebration for us, noise.

09:05Why talk ifs and buts?

09:08The fact carries no ifs and buts.

09:09The fact is just there, not conditional, not if.

09:14You cannot be told that, you know, if you think of yourself as pure consciousness, then

09:27you will feel peace.

09:29If you think of yourself as pure consciousness, the bugger does not even know that every thought

09:36is a disturbance, every thought is a disturbance, peace is when thoughts are not there, not

09:47needed.

09:48And the remedy that he is suggesting is no if you think of yourself as pure consciousness

09:54and what exactly is that pure consciousness?

09:58Some great pristine image, go on.

10:09I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

10:13Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

10:16Who?

10:17If?

10:19I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

10:24Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

10:27I have already said, man should relate to man as a friend, as a lover, not in submission.

10:33Do not come to submit to me.

10:36Meet me as a friend meets a friend.

10:39You are most welcome.

10:42You can dance.

10:44I don't want to sermonize.

10:47This is a very boring activity.

10:50I would rather play with you.

10:57I would rather play with you.

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