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.

01:15Discarded, ostracized, stoned, killed, crucified.

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.

01:32They 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.

04:01In Zen, that is what is there, immediate enlightenment.

04:11The 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.

05:06You also like going to satsangs.

05:09You are the same.

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

05:27I never lost it.

05:28How did you lose it, first of all?

05:32Nobody has ever lost it.

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

05:41How 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.

06:17Anyway, somebody has to remember you.

06:20Anyway, somebody has to remember you.

06:25Your hand is carrying a wound.

06:29The wound is full of pus.

06:33Hurts.

06:34Does somebody have to come to remind you that you are hurt?

06:38Yes.

06:39Explain you why is this hurt?

06:42Come on.

06:43Why is that hurt?

06:44Does 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.

06:57Do you need somebody else to come and tell you, see, see, see, you are bleeding.

07:00See, see, see, it is swollen.

07:02Does that happen?

07:03You can ask what is a myth and what is not a myth.

07:07Everybody knows that.

07:08The arm is hurting me.

07:11So this is a myth.

07:14The arm is hurting you.

07:15That is a myth.

07:16You came to tell us it is a myth.

07:20Whenever 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?

07:44Oh, do not shrug it away in laughter.

07:47It is an important matter.

07:49If I think that it is real.

07:51Do not talk in terms of if.

07:53Do you think they are real or not?

07:56Nothing is real.

07:57Are you saying that now or do you say that in moments when you are angry, frustrated,

08:01depressed and violent?

08:02Do not laugh it away.

08:05It is easy to intellectualize stuff here.

08:08I am talking of real life.

08:14It is very easy to say, you know, if you are the Sachidanand Brahm, then anger does not

08:18matter.

08:19Does 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 do not just give hypothetical and ideal answers, answer from your life, answer from

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

08:39stranger, the robber.

08:42Look at that.

08:43Stare the facts in the face.

08:44Look at the way the world is, violent, chaotic, anarchic.

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

08:55Huh?

08:56You hear this sound.

08:59This is what the world is.

09:00This is celebration for us.

09:03Noise.

09:04Why talk ifs and buts?

09:08The fact carries no ifs and buts.

09:10That is just there.

09:11Not conditional.

09:12Not if.

09:13You 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.

09:34The bugger does not even know that every thought is a disturbance.

09:40Every thought is a disturbance.

09:42Peace is when thoughts are not there, not needed.

09:49And 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.

09:59I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

10:00Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

10:01Huh?

10:02If.

10:03I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

10:04Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

10:05I have already said.

10:06I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

10:07Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

10:08I have already said.

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

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

10:11I have already said.

10:12I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

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

10:14I have already said.

10:15I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

10:16Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

10:17I have already said.

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

10:20Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

10:21I have already said.

10:22I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

10:23Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

10:24I have already said.

10:25I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

10:26Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

10:27I have already said.

10:28I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

10:29Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

10:30I have already said.

10:31I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

10:32Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

10:33I have already said.

10:34I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

10:35Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

10:36I have already said.

10:37I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

10:39I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

10:40Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

10:41I have already said.

10:42I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

10:43Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

10:44I have already said.

10:45I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

10:46Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

10:47I have already said.

10:48I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

10:49Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

10:50I have already said.

10:51I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

10:52Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

10:53I have already said.

10:54I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

10:55Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

10:56I have already said.

10:57I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

10:58Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

10:59I have already said.

11:00I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

11:01Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

11:02I have already said.

11:03I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

11:04Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

11:05I have already said.

11:06I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

11:07Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

11:08I have already said.

11:09I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

11:10Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

11:11I have already said.

11:12I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

11:13Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

11:14I have already said.

11:15I feel everything you say is true and it pleases me.

11:16Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

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