The same thing happens with the gurus.
‘I don’t like that guru, but I like the other one.
He is more indulgent, he allows me to do what I like’.
You know, many gurus have come to see the speaker at many times.
The funniest one of them was...
He had been in that particular country for many years
and he came to see me with all the robes, beads and all the rest of it.
And he said...
He saluted me, most respectfully,
because he assumed I was the guru of gurus,
and he said, ‘Sir, I have been in this country for many years.
I’ve talked all over different parts of this country.
I’ve a large number of followers but I have run out of ideas.
So, I have come to you, please give me some ideas’.
We are not joking, this was an actual fact.
You see, when we have really understood
why we follow,
why a guru assumes authority,
why he demands so many things,
or allows another follower to throw off his inhibitions,
doing what they like,
sex, the whole performance, the ugliness of all that.
I naturally feel there is somebody who will help me.
so why do I ask help of another? That is the real point.
Apart from joking about all this, this is a very serious problem
because they are multiplying, these gurus,
with enormous wealth.
Think of a religious man having enormous wealth and property,
millions and millions of dollars, thousands of acres,
hundreds and thousands of followers.
What is wrong, to allow such a thing to happen
in a world that is already so utterly destructive.