Guru neither accepts nor rejects you
Understand: I have to do the job of neither rejecting you nor accepting you. A human being cannot do this job. He either falls in love or hates; that's all. Here, I have to completely keep you in my heart, and just cut and do the surgery, removing the cancer, removing the tumor.
I cannot reject your love and I cannot accept it. Hot love always turns into anger. Your love is too hot. The hot feeling of security always turns as a deep insecurity; means the hot fear – 'if I have all this, this, this only then it is security.' Security with legs always will become handicapped, love which is hot will always become hatred.
Love should have tremendous coolness like Ganga, flowing. In some puranas they say Ganga is one more wife of Shiva. No. Shiva made Sati into Ganga and keeping it.
Sati is too hot, Dakshayini is too hot. He makes her like Ganga. Then you can always be ardhangini, part of Shiva, whether you are in a male body or female body, understand once you are ashramite, nothing else lives in you except the relationship between me and you. When that is flowering you are flowering, when that is shrinking you are shrinking; that's it.
Exaggeration is your mind's nature
Exaggeration is inevitable in your life. You cannot kill it. I challenge! Record any of your conversations for ten minutes. You will see constantly exaggeration erupting!
Even in a negative way – if you hate somebody, you will exaggerate negatively about that person. Exaggeration is the way your mind functions. So, till it dies, let your exaggerations be centred on your God or Guru, your Ishta. Your Ishta!
The continuous process of exaggeration, need for hope, asking for more, cannot be taken away from you directly. When you divert that to Mahadeva who can never be exaggerated, all your hope, all your need for more, everything settles down on him.
Guru is the statement of God
Guru is nothing but the expression of God, demanding that you shift that hope for exaggeration on Divine. Guru is nothing but the statement given to you by God, 'Hey, shift!' Guru is the statement of God. God is the state of Guru.
State just gives the statement – 'Shift! You have suffered enough with your exaggerations on yourself. Shift now! I am here to liberate you from this need for exaggeration, to wake you up to the reality which can never be exaggerated, which is too big.
You need to experientially see something with "Aaah!" to shift your pattern of exaggeration centered on you to centered on something else. That is when Guru appears and gives you the feeling "Aaah!"
Even after Guru happens in your life, don't miss that opportunity of "Aaah!", that shift. Blessed are those who experience that shift, because they wake up!
I tell you, if you don't have anything other than you to exaggerate, hope for, feel more about, feel the quantity, quality, more need, you are the poorest person! I declare that as "spiritual poverty", "conscious poverty", "depression".
The moment you open your mouth, if all your exaggeration is moving around either God or your Guru, you are one of the richest beings on planet Earth! Because all your hope, all your need for qualitative and quantitative difference, your greed, your exaggeration, everything, is centred on something other than you, will wake you up towards Oneness.