The Role of a Teacher || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: The Real teacher disappears from the outside and you see him in your Heart

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00:00The primary duty of the teacher to make himself redundant.

00:03You have helped someone only if he no longer needs your help.

00:07But if the Guru has his own self-interest in mind,

00:11he will continue to ensure that you return to him day after day.

00:14And you can continue to return to him only if he pleases you.

00:17The real teacher, at least if you look at the prominent teachers in India,

00:21the real ones have always been shown carrying weapons.

00:24They were not pleasing personalities.

00:26The Guru, the real ones were always myth-busters.

00:30They never pleased their audiences.

00:32That is why they received the treatment that they did.

00:34Discarded, ostracized, stoned, killed, crucified.

00:37They had no concern for their status quo.

00:40They had no concern for what you like.

00:43They were not pleasant.

00:44They were not smiling.

00:45They didn't want to make you feel good.

00:47They were not bothered whether you return to them or not.

00:49They did not make arrangements that a thousand people must come to me.

00:53The teacher's role is to show that you are unnecessarily coming to the teacher.

00:57You are self-sufficient.