Teachers, Students and Truth

From a Blessing:May you be a true server who directs everyone towards the Bestower through your every deed and speciality.True servers will not trap anyone in themselves after giving them co-operation. They will forge everyone’s connection with the Father. Their every word will remind others of the Father. The Father will be visible through their every deed. They would never even think that someone co-operates with them because of their own speciality. If others see you and not the Father, then you have not done service, for you have made them forget the Father. True servers will forge everyone’s relationship with the Truth and not with themselves.

The blessing in a recent murli gave important reminders in two ways.  

First is the more obvious - "True servers will forge everyone's relationship with the Truth and not with themselves."  It's possible that in the teacher-student relationship that attachments will form.  But the role of the teacher is to pass on knowledge and teach the student to discern and understand that knowledge - not to make the student dependent upon themselves.  The teacher has to take the responsibility to keep this line clear.  To cross it, time is wasted - nothing is accumulated and there is a loss for both student and teacher.  

Likewise, for each of us as a life student of Baba's, we have to make sure we don't cross the line as a student.  It's so easy to have our 'favourites' - those teachers we want to hear murli from, those whose every word we hang on.  Baba can work through any teacher - and so where is our trust when we say, 'I can not learn anything from this one" or "I can only learn from that one"?  

Having been guilty of this myself, drama has pushed me into situations where I'm learning from those I didn't expect to.  It's a beautiful thing to have a great realization from the most unexpected of places.  Can I really say I know better than God who should be teaching me?  And so I'm learning to appreciate that service from all of Baba's children and not just "my chosen few".  

Each of Baba's children is making that special effort to serve, to give knowledge, to give a drop to the thirsty.  But if we are stubborn about who we learn from, we will miss out on so many jewels.

Om shanti.