Page 503 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6

“A few are so born who confuse dhal for boiled rice and take great pleasure in this confusion”
for His work it is incumbent upon us to spread the message AS IS and work for the Master alone (meaning no selfish interests). That is when we can safely say we
are in the service of the Master.
Whereas the irony that is pointed out in the message is that the bondage of egoism caught on with some preceptors (and seems to spread)) and they started feeling high of themselves. As a result they slowly started deviating from the idea of Master’s work while gravitating towards the idea of self. Naturally when the idea of self gets strengthened the longing towards bringing out uniqueness (separated-ness) develops thereby causing the door open for injecting their own personal ideas into the detailed practices laid down originally. Thereby the power endowed to them for the Divine work and for the benefit of others becomes burdensome and risky on Master. It is risky because even the slightest variation meditational practices can have the dire consequences. It is burdensome because it has multiplier effect and that much reversal effort Master has to expend to correct the abhyasi(s). Instead of being a helpful aid, they end up becoming negative forces; this is when the original idea of having a helpful aid (preceptor) defeats its own purpose.
It is within this context and in reference of those individuals Master states that they believe their faith in their ego is their power and they remain entangled in it. Hence the topic of the seminar “A few are so born who confuse dhal for boiled rice and take great pleasure in this confusion” can be readily understood in this context if we can rephrase as follows: A few are so born who confuse ‘faith in their ego’ for ‘power’ and take great pleasure in this confusion. Our Master also states that to bring such persons back into the path is nearly impossible due to they having gone away from their duty.
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