[Interviewer] Acharya Shree, what does it mean to put efforts into meeting a living enlightened master if they are so rare?
Yes, that is very good question, too.
Whatever is available if someone is live master and someone knows it that where that live master is...
Maybe he's traveling from country to country. Maybe he's sitting in one little hut or under a tree.
So the people have hard time to put efforts. What efforts they can put?
They have money and money makes the mare go.
If they have money, they can travel. They can find where the live master is.
And everyone in this world has money, at least, because money is the source of moving here and there.
Everybody has food. Without money, how they will buy the food?
There is no excuse that they cannot meet a live master, no matter where he is on this earth.
If there is not much money, people borrow it on the credit cards...
But if they really want to meet it, they will not care about, they will work, they will take care of their credit cards.
Or their debts. Is money more important than a live master?
Just think about it.
You can just work maybe 6 months and you can pay it back, everything.
Your debt. Your credit cards.
So put efforts. If you are not able to move from one country to another, maybe you are disabled...
Handicapped. Then I understand. You can go to whatever, however his teachings are available, maybe on the Internet.
You can hear. Or maybe conference call. That doesn't cost you much.
You put efforts or whatever teachings you get from the live teacher, by the videos, by the conference call, by the books, because it is still available. Live master is still physically available here.
If you read even his book, then you can question to him if you don't understand.
Books will be little guidelines for you. Or the video can be...his videos or her videos can be little guidelines for you.
Then you have the opportunity to meet the live master. You have to put efforts.
Move it. Or keep in touch. That master will be in our country or not?
If he or she is travelling to your country, then try to put all the efforts to meet.
If you cannot come from one country to another country, you can meet the person in your own country.
That live master. So, you have to put efforts. Some kind of first guidelines, books, videos, conference calls, tapes.
Whatever available. And after that, if there is conference call available to you, you can go and you can ask the question.
There are many ways, the whole world is like a little family today.
What do you think that they cannot put effort in little family? They can meet.
The earth used to be very big in the beginning like because there was no way to move from one part to another, but these days, technology...
Everything becomes small.
You can just fly from east coast to west coast or like from India to America just within 12 hours.
We didn't even think about in the past it can be so easy to go to the all the way to the other part of the Earth.
It is available. Use it. All this technology. And after that put more effort to meet individual.
Because the live master will work with individual. And will suggest what you really need to do.
That's why the people put effort no matter where they live.
They come from far away. They will drive from far away.
That means that they are putting effort.
They will put effort if they are really a true seeker.
Otherwise, they will just sit and they will wait. The grass will grow by itself. It is not growing by itself. You have to give water!
Fertilizer. You have to put effort in the grass to grow it.
Not by itself. Don't just open your mouth and God will put the food in your mouth. No.
You have to work hard. Learn from birds. They wake up early in the morning. They search for the food whole day and they feed their babies.
And they feed themselves. They work hard.
Put efforts. That is the best work if you can put efforts to learn spirituality, to meet a live, a living master.
That will be your very good luck and best luck and you're very fortunate.