Is this a market to satisfy desires? Desires are born one after another. May be one who does not give birth to desires can be satisfied. But how can desires be satisfied to one who has a heap of desires?

What do you think the Guru principle is? Do you think that the Guru principle is there to satisfy desires? Today there is one desire. Tomorrow there is another desire. The day after tomorrow there is yet another different desire. It keeps going like that. Do you think that for each question you allocate one desire, and for each desire you pay so much money? No. It is not like that.

**The Guru principle helps one achieve a state where there are no desires at all. Teaching to live in contentment is the Guru principle. Giving the strength to endure the difficulties that arise is the Guru principle. **

The true desire (the desire for Truth), when you have, then you may ask the Guru that he should be prepared to satisfy it. That gives real bliss, inner bliss. You may ask for that. You may ask for the inner understanding in this lifetime of the real Truth.

Everything else you can earn yourselves. You can get a house, you can obtain a job, you can earn money, and you can get married and look after children. All this. But what is not available, pray to the Guru to grant you that. Would you ask for that?

Among the disciple-devotees there are many who ask for Spiritual Knowledge. It is not seen in devotees who come with desires. That is why I tell them, ‘I will not satisfy your desires; but you go to those who can fulfill those desires for you. If you want your result, if you want a cure for your disease, go to a doctor; if your mind is ill, go to a psychiatrist; if you have incurred a loss in your business, consult a friend.’ Like this I give answers to help them to satisfy their desires, and send them away. That is all.

If you complain that your desires are not fulfilled, my question is, ‘Why have you come to me with desires?’ If you really have placed such firm faith in me and I have let you down, then you should leave me at once. Why have you not left me? You could have left me. Why do you keep holding on to me? That is not nice.

(Q&A, USA, 29 Jul 2011)