Don’t block the bridge for others

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Question: Acharya Ji, you recently said that if one is attached to the Teacher, then he blocks the bridge for others. Please help me understand this.

Acharya Prashant (AP): Yes, of course.

The Teacher is the bridge — a bridge between dimensions.

One end of the bridge is this world — space and time, thoughts, emotions, appearances.

The other end of the bridge is another dimension — silence, no space, no time, no movement.

But the movement into timelessness begins from a point, that is time-bound. The one who is ushering you into the Timeless is himself time-bound.

The Atman might be immortal, the body of the Teacher is mortal.

The Truth might be timeless, but the Teacher, as a body, has only definite time. He uses that time. And that is the only proper use of anybody’s time — to move into the Timeless.

That is the proper use of life in this dualistic world — to move into That, which is beyond duality. So, the Guru, the Teacher, spends his life, spends his time, holding the hands of others, ushering them, escorting them into the Timeless.