How to Tell True Teachers From the False || Acharya Prashant (2016)

Acharya Prashant

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00:01The real teacher has a great responsibility to make himself unnecessary.

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

00:18And mind you, the real ones hardly ever had any followership.

00:26It is the primary duty of the teacher to make himself redundant.

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

00:39But if the guru has his own self-interest in mind, he will continue to ensure that you return to him day after day.

00:52And you can continue to return to him only if he pleases you.

00:56That's one clear indication of the self-interest of the guru.

01:02The real ones were always mythbusters, iconoclasts.

01:08They never pleased their audiences.

01:10That is why they received the treatment that they did.

01:13Discarded, ostracized, stoned, killed, crucified.

01:17They 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.

01:35They were not bothered whether he returned to them or not.

01:45They did not make arrangements that a thousand people must come to me.

01:52The teacher's role is to show that a teacher is not needed.

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

02:08I repeat, the teacher's role is to show that you are unnecessarily coming to the teacher.

02:15You are self-sufficient.

02:17Are the gurus doing that?

02:21Does it happen that they ensure that people do not return?

02:27Does it happen that they attack so vigorously that people feel bad?

02:34The real teacher, at least if you look at the prominent teachers in India,

02:43the real ones have always been shown carrying weapons.

02:48They were not pleasing personalities.

02:51They were not like this.

02:57In Zen, you have stories of masters who would always be carrying a stick and hit hard.

03:04Yes, of course.

03:06They 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.

03:14But if you are somebody who counts numbers,

03:17then you won't be given a slap.

03:20He won't give you a slap.

03:24You know a particular Zen story?

03:27The master asks a particular question.

03:31A mysterious student unnecessarily keeps raising his hand.

03:34There are people who are fond of this talking, talking, can't listen to the teacher.

03:45So, the master calls that one here and cuts off his finger.

03:49cuts off his finger.

03:52And the story says that the disciple was immediately enlightened.

04:00In Zen, that is what is there.

04:03Immediate enlightenment.

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

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

04:19Because only that pleases you, which allows you to continue you as you.

04:32And the teacher's responsibility is to not to let you continue as you.

04:39What is it that you find pleasurable?

04:43You find only that pleasurable, which is an extension, a continuation of your ways, of your ego.

04:51So, if you really like a teacher and you say, wow, nice one, I want to go to him.

04:56I want to go to him.

04:57It only proves that he is some kind of a plum cake for you.

05:01Pleases your senses.

05:04You like going to a shopping mall.

05:05You also like going to satsangs.

05:08You are the same.

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

05:12How did you find the truth?

05:26I never lost it.

05:27How did you lose it first of all?

05:31Nobody has ever lost it.

05:32You explain to me how you lost it.

05:40How did you lose it?

05:42How did you lose it?

05:45How did you lose it?

05:47Life never allows you to lose the truth.

05:50I am again and again saying.

05:52You cannot afford to lose the truth.

05:55You try and you had a tight slap.

05:58Now, how can you lose the truth?

06:00So, tell me how did you lose the truth?

06:04Just forget you.

06:05You forget and you were beaten black and blue.

06:09Look at your wounds.

06:10Look at how life is beating you.

06:11Look at the scars on the psyche.

06:13Look at all the hurt, the suppression, the repression in the mind.

06:17Does any way somebody have to remember you?

06:20Any way...

06:22You mean remind you?

06:23Your hand, remain worried.

06:24Your hand is carrying a wound.

06:26The wound is full of pus.

06:32Hurts.

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

06:36Yes.

06:38Explain to you why is this hurt?

06:40Come on.

06:42Why is that hurt?

06:43Does not matter.

06:44First of all, the acknowledgement that there is hurt.

06:49Does somebody have to come to tell you that you are hurt?

06:52It is paining and aching.

06:54And it is killing you.

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

06:57See, see, see you are bleeding.

06:59See, see, see it's stolen.

07:00Does that happen?

07:02Tell us what is a myth and what is not a myth.

07:06Everybody knows that.

07:07So, the arm is murdering me.

07:11So, this is a myth.

07:13The arm is hurting you.

07:14That is a myth.

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

07:18Whenever something is a myth,

07:23then it can go away without any loss to you.

07:28If the hurt in the arm is a myth,

07:32then it should disappear immediately.

07:35Do your wounds, answer honestly,

07:38do your wounds keep disappearing immediately?

07:40Or do we keep pairing them as memories, identities?

07:45Don't shrug it away in laughter.

07:46It's an important matter.

07:47If I think that it's real.

07:50Don't talk in terms of if.

07:52Do you think they are real or not?

07:55Nothing is real.

07:57Are you saying that now?

07:58Or do you say that in moments when you are angry, frustrated,

08:00depressed and violent?

08:02Don't laugh it away.

08:05It is easy to intellectualize stuff here.

08:08I am talking of real life.

08:13It is very easy to say, you know,

08:14if you are the Satchidanand Brahm,

08:15then anger does not matter.

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

08:22Does it matter to you or not?

08:23So don't just give hypothetical and ideal answers.

08:30Answer from your life.

08:32Answer from the way you interact with your boss, your wife, your kid, the man on the street, the stranger, the robber.

08:39Look at that.

08:41Look at that.

08:42Stare the facts in the face.

08:46Look at the way the world is.

08:48Violent, chaotic, anarchic.

08:49What is the point in talking of great ideals?

08:57Huh?

08:58You hear this sound.

08:59This is what the world is.

09:00This is celebration for us.

09:01Noise.

09:02Why talk ifs and buts?

09:07The fact carries no ifs and buts.

09:09The fact 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 you will feel peace.

09:28If you think of yourself as pure consciousness.

09:31Peace.

09:33The bugger does not even know that every thought is a disturbance.

09:39Every thought is a disturbance.

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

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?

09:57Some great pristine image.

09:59Wow.

10:08I feel everything he says is true and it pleases me.

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

10:16Huh?

10:17Yes.

10:19I feel everything he says is true and it pleases me.

10:22Does it mean I shouldn't come here tomorrow?

10:26I have already said.

10:28Man should relate to man as a friend, as a lover.

10:32Not in submission.

10:33Do not come to submit to me.

10:35Meet me as a friend meets a friend.

10:38Huh?

10:40You are most welcome.

10:42We can dance.

10:44I don't want to sermonize.

10:45This is a very boring activity.

10:49I would rather play with you.

10:52Hmm?

10:54Hmm?

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