To be or not to be ... a Guru
davide ragusa on Unsplash “You are going to be a Guru one day, like a Satguru or something.” told one of my colleagues in the room. The other person in the meeting room smirked. I knew what he thinks about it. He has a lowly opinion of all Gurus. I hoped he doesn’t have such a low opinion about me. If I really become a Guru, he might consider that I have fallen from my values. But why would a normal person lose respect when he becomes a master, revered by the masses. I can dismiss it, as just envy. Or it could be a sense of superiority over the lowly masses that respect a Guru more than anyone else. The masses have no idea of the philosophies, the ways of worship, the mantras that a learned man like him knows. And they go after an ordinary man like him! That might translate to be the irreverence. I don’t know. I thought I should check my master about it. At least I would come to know what it means...