Mooji on relationship with a true master

A relationship with a true master or guru is not an easy one, but every day it becomes sweeter and more beautiful as your heart and mind open up to truth. I remember when I met my master, Papaji, there was also some fear coming up inside me, but I knew it was a healthy kind of fear.
There is always a part of the mind that wants to tame people or win them over so they don’t threaten you. You play to be nice, sexy, clever or entertaining. You try everything to be loved and accepted. We are both attracted to and intimidated by the sense of 'other' but the master is not an 'other', he is the pure reflection of one’s own real being. He doesn’t allow any room for your mind-play. Suddenly, in his presence, you feel like you are the ‘other’—a stranger to what is natural and true. The shallowness of ego comes up involuntarily and you will feel out of your depth. In that moment, the pain of not being who you truly are becomes unbearable.
Now the old tricks, the old currency doesn't work here.
It is like having a pocketful of Euros in the middle of the Sahara desert. There is no value for it here and something feels deeply uncomfortable.
This, in fact, is the greatness of the real master.
A defining moment: You must either run away with your loot of fool’s gold or choose freedom.
A true seeker feels that deep energetic discomfort within, but recognises it to be a great opportunity, a chance for freedom from the tyranny of the false. Though they may be trembling in their socks, they say ‘yes’ with trust and courage and enter the master’s presence and grace.
There is nothing to be afraid of really. In fact, the master is not the cause of your discomfort. Such presence only exposes the disharmonies of the ego and invites the seeker to choose liberation.

~ Mooji

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