Give up the delusive notion that to submit to the preceptor, to obey him, and to carry out his instructions is slavish mentality. The ignorant man thinks that it is beneath his dignity and against his freedom to submit to another man's command. This is a grave blunder. If you reflect carefully, you will see that your individual freedom is, in reality, an absolutely abject slavery to your own ego and vanity. It is the vagaries of the sensual mind. He who attains victory over the mind and the ego is the truly free man. He is the hero. It is to attain this victory that man submits to the higher spiritualized personality of the Guru. By this submission, he vanquishes his lower ego and realizes the bliss of infinite consciousness.
Happy - Go - Lucky Disciples:
The spiritual path is not like writing a thesis for the Master of Arts degree. It is quite a different line altogether. The help of a teacher is necessary at every moment. Young aspirants become self-sufficient, arrogant, and self-assertive in these days. They do not care to carry the orders of a Guru. They do not wish to have a out Guru. They want independence from the very beginning. They think they are in the Turiya Avastha (the state of super consciousness) when they do not know even the A-B-C of spirituality or truth.
They mistake licentiousness or "having their own ways and sweet will" for freedom. This is a serious, lamentable mistake. This is the reason why they do not grow. They lose their faith in the efficacy of Sadhana and in the existence of God. They wander about in a happy-go-lucky manner, without any aim, from Kashmir to Gangotri, and from Gangotri to Ramesvaram, talking some nonsense on the way, something from Vichara Sagar, something from Panchadasi, and posing as Jivanmuktas (liberated beings).
