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should we continue with the next person? Several alternatives have come. You have got one group pitted against the other, one alternative against the other. What is your state of mind? So, the stage of leaving a guru, gets forced on you at certain times. Now, in this case it is a physical veiling. In some cases, because of the grace, you come to know what to do.
Disillusionment is the consequence of it. This is the state earlier, the anguish leads to disillusionment, the first stage is anguish.
Any person, if you are going to get yourself attached to one person at physical level, you are bound to have this problem. When you magnify it beyond a proportion, this is what will happen. That is why no sensible guru has ever claimed himself to be God. In spite of all the qualities that Master had, he never claimed himself to be anything other than another human because you will not have this problem. Most of us survived this shock mainly because we have accepted Him at our level though we know that He is a very great person and we also came to know about spirituality, we survived. Those who could not survive this shock, went immediately to the next
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