[A Teacher Informs, A Master Transforms] [Introductory Music by Shivraj] [Filmed during the Sept
2010 Mt Madonna Retreat, Santa Cruz, CA] So you have many spiritual techniques which are
very high powered and very speedy. And I have my doubts whether you can practice them all.
I don't mean to discourage you all, the very fact that you have come here puts you in a
different class or category of people who are very intense and very focused. If you're
given an environment like this, then the sky's the limit for you, you can do anything. But
you need a collective environment like this of like minded people, and then you're very
strong. Even by night you'll stay up the whole night and practice because there's all of
us in it. But if you're alone, that's the time you need help. And what I want to emphasis
to you, I must speak the truth. It's all, it's not that I'm praising you or praising
myself. You must know what I am doing and what I am. I'm giving you a personal empowerment,
a one to one. And if you call me, then I shall me there for you. Do you understand this?
Okay? So if somebody else has told you this, then this will put your mind into confusion.
So I do not know if anyone else has told you, that if you call me, your breath will lengthen.
I will be present with you. So I am your support system and on the outer level, the acharyas
are your support system. Therefore it is necessary for you to practice diligently. If you have
any difficulties just talk to me, talk to the photo. You can do it on your computer
in two minutes. Do you think I'll be able to come through this? Just see. Just look.
You do? Show it to the lady. Do you think I can come through? I want your intuition
to work, you're not experts. Can I come through? Yes? Come through? Okay, if they all say I
come through, pass it down the whole row. If you think I can come through, I'll come
through. Okay? This is a very personal thing and I've taught you way too many techniques
that are way beyond your capacity. But you are strong, you are capable, you have faith.
I want to increase your faith by giving you an experience. Therefore don't treat these
techniques as any other guru would give you, any other teacher would give you. How many
of you can distinguish between a master and a teacher? Raise you hands. And how many cannot
distinguish? Raise your hands? Okay, so, get about the job of learning to distinguish between
a master and a teacher. Okay? Talk to your friends, talk to this knowledge of this body
of people who are knowledgeable people. The're all Acharyas and Teachers here, people of
knowledge. Talk to them and you'll know how to distinguish. A master transforms, a teacher
informs. A master transforms, a teacher informs. So the first litmus test is A master transforms,
a teacher informs. They keep talking but they cannot give you the spiritual depth of experience.
This is very important. The master gives a spiritual transmission to heal you. A teacher
can talk to you, a teacher shows you the menu, the master gives you the food. He gives you
the direct experience. Aye? So that's the difference. And no matter how much of a silver
tongue he has, even if he's a great speaker, he need not necessarily be a master. They
talk of a million chakras in the body, and they talk of high kundalini things but nothing
is a result of that. Nothing happens. This is not because they are bad. This is because
they urgently want some miracle to happen. They urgently want 2012 to come. Some excitement,
some euphoria. So they make believe that they have had an experience, when they haven't.
So it is the mind's eagerness to have an experience, which makes the mind fumble into a make believe
situation of an experience that it is not. Do you understand? Aye? So be careful of that.