Anyone and everyone cannot be an Acharya (teacher of mankind); but many may become Mukta (liberated).
The whole world seems like a dream to the liberated, but the Acharya has to take up his stand between the two states.
He must have the knowledge that the world is true, or else why should he teach? Again, if he has not realised the world as a dream, then he is no better than an ordinary man, and what could he teach?
The Guru has to bear the disciple's burden of sin; and that is the reason why diseases and other ailments appear even in the bodies of powerful Acharyas.
But if he be imperfect, they attack his mind also, and he falls. So it is a difficult thing to be an Acharya.
- Swami Vivekananda
The whole world seems like a dream to the liberated, but the Acharya has to take up his stand between the two states.
He must have the knowledge that the world is true, or else why should he teach? Again, if he has not realised the world as a dream, then he is no better than an ordinary man, and what could he teach?
The Guru has to bear the disciple's burden of sin; and that is the reason why diseases and other ailments appear even in the bodies of powerful Acharyas.
But if he be imperfect, they attack his mind also, and he falls. So it is a difficult thing to be an Acharya.
- Swami Vivekananda
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