[Interviewer] Acharya Shree, what is your message today to the truth seekers?
It has to be special because it is a special question.
Let me start from Eastern people first.
Eastern people think that 'guru bin gyan nahi'.
Means: without guru there is no knowledge.
And the Eastern hemisphere seems to cling with this idea too much.
And they're totally wrong.
Even the gurus - I'm talking about the real gurus - they are against of scripture.
They don't mention that you read the scriptures.
Because scriptures, the books, are for having general idea for everyone.
They are for everyone.
Guru bin gyan nahi, no knowledge without guru, does not mean that.
It means something else: that this scripture cannot give you the knowledge.
Because they need the role of guru.
And the scripture cannot teach the individual.
Because scripture doesn't know your individuality.
Scriptures or the books are just general.
General concept or a little guidance.
Only guru, the live master, can understand an individual person.
Or individuality. That's why the guru will speak according to the individual.
The guru will hit the point, what individual needs to learn.
Let me tell you now the scriptures cannot teach a person; that's what it means - guru bin gyan nahi.
Not no knowledge without guru - no.
Scripture cannot teach a person. That's why we need guru.
And the religions which are sticking with the scriptures only - they are wrong.
Most of religions, they are sticking with the scriptures, like Hindus with Gita, Sikhs with Guru Granth Sahib, Christians with Bible, Buddhists with Tripitaka, Jains with Agama.
They are all sticking and they all are...they will all learn something from the scripture.
They will guide them.
Sikhs and Muslims... Muslims like Koran. They are really stick with the Koran. And with the Guru Granth Sahib - Sikhs.
And they think that book, like Guru Granth Sahib is...[missing video]...
And that I already told you gurus are usually against scriptures because they know the truth, that scripture cannot guide a person.
Cannot guide individual. It needs a guru.
And it needs a live guru.
And no wonder in Sikhism there is not a single enlightened person. Why?
Because they consider Guru Granth Sahib is guru.
That is a book. Not a single enlightened person in Islam.
Why? Because they consider the Koran is their guru.
Not a single enlightened person in Christianity. Why?
Because they consider Bible is their guide. Bible is their guidance.
And Bible is written for everyone.
It is not written for individual.
It will say general things.
Then it seems like not a single enlightened person in Hindus, because they stick with Gita.
And they consider that whatever Gita says, that is perfect.
And enlightenment has nothing to do with Gita or Bible or Koran or Guru Granth Sahib.
Or Tripitaka in Buddhism or Agamas in Jainism.
We need always a live master. At least Jains, they consider there are 170 live masters in this universe.
None of religions seem to have that idea.
A guru can understand an individual.
That's why guru bin gyan nahi. No knowledge without guru. That is also mistranslation.
I will correct it: no knowing without guru. Not knowledge.
You can get knowledge from books. And that knowlege will be borrowed. That is not yours.
That's why who memorizes the Bible, it is borrowed knowledge. That person is carrying the borrowed knowledge.
If someone recites the whole Gita, it is carrying the borrowed knowledge.
Someone recites the whole Koran...or Veda...it is carrying the borrowed knowledge. Guru Granth Sahib is same thing.
Borrowed knowledge cannot open the door of your soul.
Only the guru. The live master.
Unfortunately, in Sikhism there is no live master. In Islam there is no live master.
In Christianity there is no live master. Jesus was.
So that's why there is no enlightened person there.
Because they are leaning on the borrowed knowledge.
The borrowed knowledge cannot take you there. It might make you good person because it has advice.
Only guru can understand you. Guru can understand the individual person.
It has to be present. If guru is present and he's a master, or she's a master, that can help you to know self-knowing.
I'm not talking about the knowledge. Knowledge is like accumulated words. Doesn't mean anything.
If someone accumulates a lot of knowledge or someone is well-versed in Gita, Bible, the Koran or Guru Granth Sahib,
doesn't mean that person is a knower. Person is just collecting a lot of information.
Guru, first of all, will hit you that don't collect the information.
The more you collect the information, the more you will fill up with garbage.
Information are like dollars. For you, dollars are valuable. We put in front of a cow, that will not even smell them.
Dollars. So that's what your informations are.
You need to learn from the live master. And live masters are very rare.
Be careful. That is my message for everyone.