Student or Teacher?

What is your higher aspiration, being student or being a teacher?

For inSelf Yoga™, one needs to closely check in meditation to find out if one has the priority to be a student or a teacher or both. Some of us want to be teachers and that is the motive for studying yoga. We may have such a desire and not even know that we do. We may have such a desire and deny it honestly because honestly we do not know what is inside of our nature, inside our psyche’s motivation-apparatus.

Some of us want to be students only because we are dread having responsibility for others. Responsibility is a pain in the arse to say the least. To some of us it is not worth being honored by others. However many of us who would not step out and risk peddling honor by becoming teachers, may find ourselves being teachers as we are induced to be that by persons who say they desire to learn from us.

Being a teacher has the risk of being condemned by others for failing to produce desired results. There might be envy of old students when new students are inducted into the practice. Being a teacher is both rewarding and depressing.

What happens when you become a teacher and you still need teachings from your teacher?

How do you shuffle between being a teacher to some and being a student to someone else?

What happens to your students when you are present with them in the company of your teacher?

Suppose one of your students becomes accelerated in learning and feels the need to consult with your teacher. Can you deal with losing your teacher role and becoming a nobody to that person who was your student?

Suppose as a teacher you have, say ten or thirty, students. What will you do with these persons if you are required to be continually in the association of your teachers? How will you maintain those students if you have to be attentive fulltime to a teacher?

What will be your situation hereafter?

Will you create a niche in the astral domains to hold your students?

Or will you abandon your students to enter a niche created by your teacher for his or her students?