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Correspondingly, we have got the Gurus. No Guru is in Artha condition. May be some Gurus are so needy that they are anxious for disciples just to look after the minimum wants and they may be attached to other people. Usually there is competition. In ancient times, murder was very common even with them. Sadhus killed Sadhus very nicely, or, saw to their extinction or extermination in the village where they lived. So, we have got such competitive gurus. We have also got Gurus who want to amass lots of wealth in the name of great Mutts and so on. There are a few Gurus who actually want to transmit whatever knowledge or capacity they have with them. But they might have no competence. The anxiety may be there. It is good. It is very much like a Jijnasa. They are anxious to help. They know perhaps in a way. But actually they cannot transmit. We get a first-grade man who does this work. He knows how to transmit. He can certainly take us by transmission. If we are lucky to have such a teacher and we are lucky to have enough good disciples, true Jnanis, I think there can be perfect growth. Or else, we find that many Missions, many Mutts, many institutions, fall.
If the proportion of real disciples is greater, that Institution survives, weeding out the wrong elements. But sometimes, it so happens that wrong elements take charge of the main Institution. It is usually stated about Islam that the enemies of Muhammad took charge of the entire organization in the second generation itself and, instead of being the simple religion that it was in his time, it turned out to be a very 'prosperous' religion - a religion of conquest and so on. So, we have a lot of show, not reality. Most religions end in show or make-believe not in reality.
In our system, we must try our level best to avoid the pitfalls of these gurus and disciples and if they combine, as they do normally, the institutions collapse. This we can study in the history of the world. That is why, we are expected to be devoted to the Ultimate Goal, also, to use discrimination, constantly and vigilantly, to watch how our own progress is taking place. If, in an institution where the major percent is perfect, it does not follow that all the rung downwards and the intermediaries are also perfect. Many of the second hand, third-hand, and fourth grade people are under the shadow of a great man and want to sail under his name. We want in our system to avoid those pitfalls. From the bottom to the top we must see that we fulfill the