Be With Sincerity

Understand: you may sit here like you are attending a weekend workshop or a management course. Any attitude is alright; no problem. But decide that for these two days, you will sit sincerely with the whole process. I am not asking you to accept me as your guru. Actually, people ask me, 'Swamiji, should I accept you as a guru?' I say no. If I am your guru, this question will not arise. As long as this question is there, I am not your guru; forget about it. Search again. Seek again.

Someone asked me, 'When I accept you as my spiritual guru, does that mean I have to give up praying to Shirdi Sai Baba, whom I have been worshipping for over fifty years now? I don't

feel he is my guru, but I remember him and pay my respects to him.'

I always tell people, even if you accept me as your guru, there is nothing wrong in learning from some other source, or master, or place. Pluck flowers from all the gardens and make a beautiful bouquet for yourself. Nothing is wrong in that. After all, I am here to enrich your life. If somebody else is also enriching it, just absorb whatever comes from them. It's not like a shop where if you come to my shop, I would prefer you not to go to the other shops! Just enrich yourself, wherever you can, or in whatever way you can.