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Christ subsequently. Miracles are no criterion for a saint or a yogi but on the other hand they are a deliberate fraud played by dexterous gurus upon the weak minded and credulous people for keeping them entrapped in the fold of their gurudom.
The Master counsels strongly that the aspirant must have continued association with the prospective master to judge things through perception and experience in a practical way so that he may be fully convinced of his capabilities and merits with regard to his practical attainments on the path. Once he is thus convinced he must trust the Master in good faith and rely upon him entirely and firmly for ensuring a successful pursuit of the goal. The Master rues the unfortunate fact that proper attention is not paid by people in general when they make this all important selection of the guru. They do not bother to consider his capabilities or worth for providing practical guidance on the path. They are induced by persuasion or miracles displayed by the so called Gurus to attract the ignorant masses. The Master calls these gurus as disciple hunters and they are as numerous as the leaves of a tree. These persons are after gurudom which is a profitable job for them ensuring enormous income and an enormous following of credulous followers who abjectly surrender themselves at their feet fearing the threat of their curse and dance to every one of their whims and fancies. It is a common but deplorable feature amongst these gurus to claim that only the person belonging to the privileged class will be entitled to become the guru, thus ensuring their professional monopoly. They even claim to be world- teachers of religion, Jagat Gurus by right of birth alone irrespective of their real capabilities and worth.
Sanyasins have also come out in their multitudes as world teachers and doctors of divinity prescribing all sorts of methods of worship and doling out empty promises to all those who throng to their grandiose sankirthans, megha satsanghs, melas, homas and mahayajnas conducted with lot of fanfare and incurring huge expenditures. The Master comes down heavily on such professional imposters calling them a shame to the nation and religion roaming about with complete impunity to cheat and defraud ignorant masses only to serve their own selfish ends. The Master gives a clarion call to the masses to come out of their slumber and see what havoc has been wrought by such persons to the spiritual fabric of themselves and the nation.
On Initiation
The Master makes critical comments on the mock ‘initiations’ made by these professional gurus which are really a cunning device adopted by them to keep their flock tied to them for ever and make their own position safe and secure. They declare falsely that the disciple can never break off the connection with