A Shishya is a Future Guru. Anyone aspiring to be a shishya is preparing to become a Guru. St. Francis of Assisi had said, “It is in giving that you receive.” The thought as a shishya should not be “What am I getting?” but “What am I giving?” When you are giving, you receive; because do not forget this one very important thing, you cannot carry all this with you. The biggest yagyas and mahayagyas are done to give back to creation whatever you get, whatever blessings you get—they are given back to creation, not held on to yourself.
The example of Parshuram ji becomes important here. He gave away all his weapons, his house, his everything, to move ahead. Unfortunately, his shishya Dronacharya was not able to do that. Parshuram ji left his body and went to a higher dimension. Dronacharya was forced to leave the body and went to lower dimensions. Parshuram ji became an evolved soul—Hari’s blessings. Dronacharya became a devolved soul—against Hari, against the teachings of his Guru also. During Mahabharat, Drona was about to use the Brahmastra because he took it to be his, while it was transitory. It had to be given forward. Using it in a war like this, and that also when Hari was standing in front of him, not caring about the destruction that he was causing, shows the importance of understanding the difference between evolved and devolved souls. A shishya should always aspire to be an evolved soul.
A shishya needs to discuss everything with his/her Guru. One is allowed to do whatever they want to do; the Guru never stops. But Guru drishti and dhwani are very important. It is okay to be engrossed in the realm of the physical, but do it while holding the hand of your Guru at all times. If one treads by himself thinking that “I have arrived” or “I have reached Mata Shakti,” they fall very badly. I have personally seen so many making this error. You can do whatever, but do not hide from your Guru. If you are doing it with his/her knowledge, then with his drishti and dhwani, you will go over it very fast and evolve out of it, for sure. If you do it without his drishti and dhwani, you will certainly fall into the pits.
A shishya always walks the path of the Guru. Often people ask about taking family and friends along. Here it is important to understand that for a sadhak, family and friends are those walking the path with you. If your family members are walking some other path and you are trying to walk the path of your Guru, it is not possible that the paths will meet. As Woodsworth said, “East is east, west is west, never the twain shall meet.”
A shishya walks the path of Guru with drishti, dhwani, and sparsh and one day becomes the Guru and arrives at the finality, for sure. If the path is different—either the path of the Guru is wrong, or the path of the supposed shishya is wrong. It is very important; it is a question of dimensions, and generations, and aeons. One wrong step and you can go into the pits of darkness without realizing what has happened to you, or you can go into the highest forms of light. If the Guru reaches, the shishya will 100% reach. Guru never leaves a shishya and leaves. He/she tries till the end.
