This is the kind of being that is the Guru (Guru is derived from the Sanskrit roots of ‘gu’ meaning darkness and ‘ru’ meaning light.) Don’t call the Guru ‘a real Guru’. A Guru is a Guru. Don’t give it an adjective. Don’t give it an? Adjective. He disperses the darkness. Of what? Of all the worlds. He is the only light in all the worlds. There is no other light. So much so they praise the Guru. They say the Guru is greater than God. The ‘God’ there must be taken as God with form.
They say if a man, a poverty-stricken man is suffering, he’s crying, ‘God, God, give me something, let me live, God, I want money. God I’ve got no money to pay this, God, that and that. One fellow comes along and says, ‘Hey, what are you crying about? Here, dig here.’ He divines the place like you would divine for water. ‘Dig here!’ The man digs there and what does he get? Diamonds. A diamond mine. Who do you think he’s going to appreciate now? (Swamiji chuckles). The fellow who showed him. The person who showed him. Made him rich.
But the man who makes him rich in the soul, to merge with the richest, Brahman (the One indivisible consciousness) you appreciate him, without the door you can’t enter. He’s the door. He is the? Door to what? The kingdom of the sun. The relationship between Guru and chela (student, spiritual aspirant or disciple or aspirant) (Swamiji chuckling) is a most sacred relationship.
Did you see a little child? When you’re carrying a child – how many times does the child make a mess? The father will say, ‘Hey, attend to it. I’m eating.’ What must the mother do? Leaves the food, goes, and cleans the child. Comes back as if nothing has happened. She starts eating food again.
But the guru is even greater than that. You know what you see in the guru? Swamiji chants from the Prapanna Gita:
Meaning
Twamewa mata, cha pita twameva (Thou art my mother and Thou art my father)
twamewa bandhush cha sakha twamewa (Thou art my brother and Thou art my friend)
twameva vidya, dravinam twameva (Thou art my knowledge and Thou art my wealth)
twameva saravam mama deva deva. (Thou art me all in all, O God of Gods)
Whatever there is to be – you are mine. He (the Guru) is even greater than that, it is said. That’s the mantra.
The father and mother bless you with only this – they give you an opportunity to come through them. So that you can work out your karma. But that Guru does not only help you to work out the karma, but he swallows all the bad karma. And gives you birth not in this world, but he makes you the basis (one with the consciousness) of all the worlds.
If you believe in God with form, then he makes you king of kings. And if you do not believe in God with form, then he makes you the basis of everything. You are everything. He gives you that kind of a birth. Which birth is highest? The birth that knows no limit. The birth that gives you the birth of all-mighty-ness. The birth that gives you motive-less-ness. Can you believe that? A person like that can exist. Yes. You have it. You read about it. You see it in the lives of incarnations. You see it in the life of many, many a Guru.
Can you pay back to your mother and father as they looked after you? The only thing you can do, you can have pride that ‘I am now great. I’m a rich man. I can give my father and mother comfort. (Swamiji chuckles) Can you pay them for all the discomfort that you gave them? Can you ever do that? Can you ever dream of it? Can you uphold and caress your mother and your father, and sleep as they slept with you? No. This so-called social law prevents you from doing it. So-called social law prevents you. But it's not just social law that prevents you – the inner shame will make you not do it.
How many of you give your father or mother a bath? Naked? Can you do that? You can’t pay back to your mother and father, what can you pay to that guru? Does he need payment? First of all, he’s motiveless, So don’t even dream to pay him. Don’t even dream to? Pay him. You can never pay him.