Relating to the Master
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February 28, 2011
When you are evolving spiritually, the process of evolution has two angles: your negativity is getting cleaned and your positivity is getting increased.
By looking in honestly and seeing how you feel about the Master, you will know which part of the process is happening in you right now. When the negativity is getting cleaned and the acid-wash is happening in you, you will feel, Oh! He is violent! His effigy should be burnt. When your positivity is increased, and you feel the friendliness within you, about yourself and others, you will feel, Wow! He is God. His deity should be worshipped!
Whether you feel me as a deity or an effigy depends on the process you are going through. But in both, you are evolving. That is why I say, even while you feel me as an effigy, don't run away or try to burn it.
Wait and have patience. If you run away, you will miss it. If you try to burn it, you will try to make thousands miss me. But don’t worry; I will not let that happen!
Whether I show anger or show love, it is just a tool for me. Like when I heal, I sometimes use a trishul (holy trident) as my healing staff. If someone who doesn’t know that I am a healer sees me with a trishul, what will he think! When he comes near me and I just pick up a trishul, what will happen? He will think, Oh God! What is he doing? He is going to kill me! But only I know that I am going to heal him, not kill him.
Understand, my anger is a trishul for healing, not for killing. Even you know this. But this funny mind goes on playing in your head. And at least if your mind can confirm that I am your enemy, you will be free and carry on with your life. That also will not happen, because the underlying energy in your inner space, which designs your body, is intelligent enough to catch the underlying current of the Master’s energy, which designs his body.
You will never be able to find anything by studying my body or my mental set-up. But the energy of your underlying consciousness, which designs your body, will catch it by its own intuition, as a fragrance, No, he is not my enemy, he is not violent. That is why the love-hate relationship with the Master goes on until you get enlightened. It is the best word to define the guru-disciple relationship!
That is why the Upanishads start by saying, sahana vavatu sahanau bhunaktu - let us not hurt each other, let us be friendly with each other. Why would a rishi, an enlightened guru, sit with a disciple and say that? If the disciple says, let you not hurt me, he can understand logically, because he is supposed to be on the lower rung. But the Master starts by saying, let us not hate each other, let us not hurt each other, let us be friendly to each other, because he knows that during the process you are going to use him sometimes as an effigy, and sometimes as a deity.