Role of the Master🔗

I went to my Master and said, 'I have a few queries.'

He said, 'That is what you will always have and that is what I am here for. What is it?'

I asked Him, 'What does a Master exactly do with His disciple? I mean what is His role?'

'Oh, what do you think I have been doing all this while?' the Master said jovially.

To this I replied, ‘everyone keeps talking about a spiritual guru. You tell us what is written in the scriptures, what is told by sages all along. Then why do people talk so much of the Master?’

The Master replied strongly, ‘Alright, if you think you can understand those scriptures, if you can work on your own, obviously you are free to practice yourself. You can work on your own. There is nothing wrong in it. It would be like you are searching for the right door and the right key. If you think you can find the right door and open it, then fine. Go and open it. But you see, if someone already has the key to the door, why would you want to try all the doors and the keys.’

I obviously felt a strong blow, a strong blow to my ego. I asked Him questioningly, ‘You say that a Master is compassionate enough to help the disciple realize himself. If a Master is so compassionate why doesn’t He give the key immediately?’

The Master could see my ego speaking those words.

He said, ‘a Master is an embodiment of compassion. He showers compassion. There is no doubt about it. A Master is an ocean of compassion. Everyone is entitled for that compassion but one can fill his bucket of compassion only when he surrenders to that Universal energy that the Master represents. If you go to that ocean with a cup, you will get only a cup-full of it; if you go with bucket you will get a bucket full of it. It all depends on you how you want to approach the Master. It all depends on you how open you are how much you want to take in and how much you can take in. Understand, if you want to benefit most, there is only one way of approaching a Master, total surrender. Only then the alchemy can happen. You cannot go to a Master with an ounce of ego. You have to surrender. You do not go with a cup or a bucket, you fall into that ocean, and you immerse yourself’

I started to internalize now.

'You mean to say when the student is ready the Master arrives. When a Master knows that everyone is caught up in the web of ego and if a Master is so compassionate, why doesn’t the Master reach out to everyone?' I enquired Him.

He explained beautifully. ‘A Master is a master surgeon. He does surgery on you. You are his patient. You have gone to Him with a lethal tumor called ego. A master removes that tumor. You lie on the operation table of the Master and the Master works on your tumor.'

'Understand that patient should first realize that he has a tumor. The patient always thinks that he is healthy. He always thinks that he is not suffering from any disease. He always says the other person has this ego tumor but he never accepts that he himself has one. When he accepts that he has a tumor, when he understands that something needs to be done, only then he goes to the doctor. That is why a Master waits till the patient accepts that he has this tumor called ego and goes to the doctor.’

‘I understand what you say, Master,’ I said. I finally called Him ‘Master’. I was convinced but I still had doubts about doubts. I asked the Master, ‘Our intellectual mind is tuned to think everything logically. Sometimes or rather most of the times we do not accept what a Master says. What should be our approach when dealing with such an issue? This can create a big void between us and the Master. If the mind does not logically find a route, we start having a doubt about what the Master says. Should we believe in everything the Master says?’

He smiled at me. ‘Doubt and belief, both are not the correct ways. Trust or surrender is the correct way. Be very clear when you have a doubt, you are still hanging on to your ego. It is your ego that tries to justify what you know and again and again; compares with what you know. So doubt is not the way. On the other hand, if you believe blindly, your foundation is weak. You belief can be shattered by anyone. Your whole foundation is weak. Anybody can shake it and you will break.’

‘Trust is the only way. Trust what the Master has to say. Trust what technology the Master has. Don’t reject it right away; do not believe it straight away. Experiment with it. Be curious. Try to find whether it works or not. If the Master is what He claims to be, you will see whatever He says is the truth. Whatever He says works.’

‘Once you experience what the Master says, your trust will turn into love and then to surrender with gratitude. You will gradually surrender to the Master who is the Divine. The Master then works on you because you still cling on to that little part of your ego. Only an enlightened being is free from this tumor. Even when you surrender, you don’t completely surrender. That is the reason why the Master works on the disciple till the tumor is removed from the root. Be very clear, the Master works continuously till the tumor is removed completely. Once the tumor is removed, once the ego is wiped off, you are in eternal bliss, Nithyanandam.