Articles From Upanishads Series
Avoid taking Master's words for granted
The first time you hear Guru's words, you do it with so much of seeking, interest, excitement. You pick up many things and internalize them as part of your life. After some time, your seeking comes down, you listen but take it for granted, "ah, He talks like this only, I've heard enough."
When you take Guru's words for granted, you may listen to satsang, but you create a huge iron wall around you. Guru's words never penetrate and become a part of you, because with each word you created a pain pattern and kept it away from you. Either because of your earlier failures, or thinking I tried but it's not working out, developing these patterns and thought trends, you become a dangerously untrainable, non-transformable person.