Speaker B describes his spiritual master Babaji as a strict guru, not a father figure, who used firm discipline to transform disciples. At 17, Babaji commissioned him as an acharya named Mahadeva and sent him worldwide to teach. The guru-disciple bond, he says, is like a general commanding a soldier.
Talking about how you are Babaji's shishya, but you're also his son, what is the dynamic between you and Babaji like? Because he's your father and your Guru as well. And how would you say that relationship is like with your children as well? Is it similar or is it different?
It is different. Babaji was never a father, he was always a Guru. He chose to always be a Guru and He was a strict guru. So when a guru is working, he will look at the disciple and he will see that, you know, some are disciples that are just coming to take, and some are the disciples that need to become. So for them from whom the guru has expectation, or for them whom the guru has command from Mahadev He is strict, he is fire, he is tap, he is there to mold you. So many times people would say he is your father, he is your guru. I do not know what a father is in traditional sense. I have never experienced a father. 17, when he made me start the acharya work, I was a young boy, young boy, and he would say take the name of Mahadeva and do what you have been told. And I would travel the world and I would teach. And all alien, alien places for me, but I did what needed to be done because I had been instructed by my Guru. And then when I turned 21, there were always instructions for me. So that dynamic is very simple. It's like a dynamic between a general and a soldier. And, uh, I value it.
