ekantik vartalaap evam darshan #1424

Private conversation with Pujya Shri Hit Premanand Govind Sharan Ji Maharaj at Shri Hit Radha Keli Kunj, Vrindavan. Sadhaks bring their questions about their life and sadhana, and Maharaj Ji resolves them.

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Haridas Ji Maharaj from Barsana, Radhe Radhe. Maharaj Ji, Maharaj Ji, dandavat pranam. Maharaj Ji, how can we get the grace to weep and yearn intensely for Ladli Ji? How can seva happen for Ladli Ji? If we are fortunate enough to get it somewhere, or to install a seva (deity) at home. Priti (love) arises from seva, and from priti comes weeping, comes yearning. So if we attain the Shri Ang seva and the Prakat Shri Vigraha seva, and that too with nishtha (steadfast devotion), like Jaimal Ji, who performed Thakur seva with steadfast devotion. There should be no obstruction in the seva.

That is why he made a rule: for 10 ghadi, during the time I am in seva, if anyone gives any information in any way, that person will be killed. A ghadi is 24 minutes, so 10 ghadi is four hours, four hours. For those four hours he did such seva that no one could even give him information. Such was his absorption in seva. When he entered and closed the curtain of Thakur Ji, and did the snan and shringar, he served for four full hours with complete absorption, doing sashtang dandavat. And only when he came out could anyone talk to him.

This Madore, a king, the king of Madore, was his brother. It came into his mind that no one can give information for four hours, and that in four hours we can win. So he surrounded Jaimal Ji's capital from all sides. Now when this news reached, no one dared to go into the seva, because they would be killed. So everyone said: we are capable of fighting, but how can the battle begin without the king's order? And Jaimal Ji's rule was that for four hours no one may give information, otherwise he will be killed. So they made a request to his mother, the queen mother: "We will not kill you, just go and bring the order." So she went, and said: the enemy has surrounded the capital from all four sides, give the order, what should be done? He said: whatever Ram will do will surely be good. He did not look back or stop the seva, and said: whatever Ram does will be good, whatever Bhagwan does will be good. So she went back. The order did not come. Then Bhagwan saw that his dependent was so absorbed in his seva, and Bhagwan himself, disguised as a Rajput soldier, mounted Jaimal Ji's horse, went, and fought the battle.

He struck everyone unconscious. He wounded them. He did not kill a single one. All of them fell unconscious. Under a shower of arrows… Now when Jaimal Ji came out after four hours of seva, he said: bring our horse, I will answer the enemy right now. The horse was panting and drenched in sweat. So he said: it looks as though this horse has come after fighting a lot. Why is our horse panting? Someone said: we don't know anything about it. The horse was sweating, and there are many other horses in the royal stables. Another horse was brought, and when they went there, everyone was lying unconscious.

Then the enemy king, when he was brought back to consciousness, folded his hands before Jaimal Ji and said: let me see that soldier once, the one who was so strong that he knocked out everyone, killed no one, wounded us with arrows, and also wounded us with his eyes. Please let me have darshan of your soldier, that dark-complexioned soldier once. Jaimal Ji said: the dark-complexioned soldier, that is what he understood, was my Bhagwan, whose seva I was doing. He returned, performed parikrama of the horse, and performed its aarti, saying: brother, I have not had darshan until today, but you had darshan, and you also received the touch.

Again and again he embraced the horse. He performed aarti of the horse and prostrated before the horse. So when we become absorbed in Bhagwan's seva this way, that no matter what happens we cannot step out of the seva, then priti comes to us, and then Bhagwan takes us out. Now suppose there were no nishtha, and on receiving the information that the enemy had surrounded the place, he had left the seva to fight. Then this incident would not have happened. There should be such absorption in seva that in no way do we tolerate any disturbance (vikshep) in the seva, and then we will develop priti for Ladli Ji.

Then, the one with whom we have priti, we wish to meet that one in person. Once, to meet in the manifest. Then yearning, weeping, sobbing: this itself becomes the path for him to live. The one who is a Bhagwat premi, yearning, sobbing, weeping… so let us give special attention to seva.

Shri Ji regards even a mustard seed of our seva as equal to Mount Meru. So flower seva, shringar seva, pocha seva, sohani seva. Just as you sit in Barsana, in Ladli Ji's palace, with some seva, Shri Thakur Ji is present in manifest form, seated at home. Yes. So then serve them, serve them abundantly. Priti comes only through seva, and in priti comes yearning and weeping. Earlier, the experiences of Shri Ji and Ladli Ji used to come; for some days now our experiences have been very few. Look, has the diet been spoiled? Has some offence been committed against a rasik, even mentally? Otherwise it should be pratikshan vardhamanam (ever-increasing, moment by moment). Why has it stopped? Why has it declined? There are only two reasons. Complete stopping happens if even a feeling of ill-will arises toward some rasik, and it will stop. For example, once a feeling arose in Hari Ram Vyas Ji's heart toward Kabir Das Ji, that he is a nirgun sant…

Some people worship the formless, attributeless God. The flow of the Lord's leela in the heart of Hariram Vyas Ji had come to a halt. So he told Shri Hit Harivansh Mahaprabhu, and Harivansh Mahaprabhu said, "An offence has been committed against one of the Lord's beloved." "Why would we Vaishnavas commit such an offence?" So he meditated on him, and regarding Kabir Das Ji, he said, "It has become an offence. Now please Kabir Das Ji." Then on the banks of the Yamuna, in this Kali age, the true devotee Kabir composed a pad and sang it, and from the stream of the Yamuna Ji, Kabir Das Ji manifested. Kabir Das Ji then said that God sends different saints to spread the naam, roop, leela and dham.

This does not mean that God deprives that person of rasa. Every devotee is entitled to all rasa. If someone understands this, then a dirty mindset towards some saint, devotee or Vaishnav will not arise in us, because if it does, our bhav will stop and our chintan will become deficient.

Maharaj Ji, in worldly life and in society, even when our thoughts towards someone are good, sometimes that person's feelings towards us are wrong. Does it make a difference? Why would it make a difference to us? Sometimes we make mistakes in recognising who is good and who is bad, and their feelings towards us are wrong.

This understanding comes later. No, it makes no difference to us. If your thoughts are wrong, so be it. Our thoughts towards you are good, so there is no question of difference. We must not make a mistake ourselves. After this, if someone does wrong, then God is my protector. No one can harm a hair on my head. We behaved well towards you, and you are behaving badly towards us, so we have no complaint against you. I have some karma whose result I must bear, and you have become the instrument through which that karma is being applied to me.

We will never blame you. This is paramarth, this is adhyatma. Yes, you have a woman's body. If anyone does any lustful act towards a woman's body, then there is no need to tolerate it. We have government laws. Take shelter in those laws and save yourself. Give punishment at the very first act. Ensure that a second step is not even attempted. Understand this as adhyatma. The inner subject of adhyatma is different and the outer subject is different, that of conduct. The subject of conduct is, for example, that your body is a woman's and someone is harassing you.

If you say "forgive me", he will catch you a second time. Also, at this time the law in India is very supportive of women, very supportive. There are very beautiful laws, provided they are not misused. But if anyone even thinks of committing such an unforgivable crime against you, do not give him a way. Because nowadays a demonic mindset is growing. A very cruel nature is developing towards young girls. So, absolutely at the very first step, at the very first sight, immediately take the help of the law and have them punished. Such people do not deserve forgiveness.

A fear arises, Maharaj Ji, that someone will disturb our family, or "whatever will happen, we will see." God exists. It does not happen merely because someone thinks about it. If destruction is written, destruction will happen. How can you destroy like this? Are you Brahma? Are you God? We will see. We must not become cowardly at all. We must keep courage. We will see. If we are like this, then look, we must be absolutely fit and ready. We will die on the day we are to die. But in the meantime, you will not interfere with us.

We must remain absolutely strong. And if even a little, if one or two people are interfering, we must somehow escape. After this, we should take government support and place our defence. This society is no longer such that it deserves forgiveness. Now the new children are becoming very unruly. They have become very unruly, they have started taking drugs. They watch filthy things on their mobiles and want to practise the same things in reality. So when there are filthy conducts and filthy talk, we request our sisters: do not forgive at all.

Yes, please give one more solution. Yes, Maharaj Ji, we have made a mistake, and this person is blackmailing us a great deal, and one mistake is leading to another mistake. In such a situation, depression.. We must not be blackmailed at all. If we have made a mistake, then it is one mistake. Suppose you made a mistake once. Once a mistake has happened, it is not that mummy will know, papa will know, the world will know, and so we will keep being blackmailed again and again. Once we have committed an error, once we have made a mistake, we must not be cowed down by the fact that we made one mistake once.

The secret will be revealed. Maharaj Ji, I have a 17-year-old daughter. Yes. When she goes out on her Activa, she comes home and tells me, "Mummy, men of Papa's age, yes, behaving like this, no, not at all, not at all, not at all." Nowadays it is not about age. Everyone's intellect has become corrupt. Whoever is cut off from God, cut off from dharma, cut off from adhyatma, cannot be trusted, even at eighty years old. So in today's times, whoever is not connected to adhyatma, whoever is not connected to adhyatma.. If someone is connected to adhyatma, look, this child is crying and saying, "I have made a mistake, dirty thoughts come inside me."

If one is connected to spirituality, then in the assembly he is a small child. He says, "Dirty thoughts come into my mind." If he were not connected to spirituality, how could he say such a thing? Without being connected to spirituality, animal nature does not go away. The demonic tendency does not go away.

Radhe Radhe, Maharaj Ji, Gurudev. Some months ago I became friends with a classmate of mine, and I became infatuated with that person. We even tried a relationship like life partners with each other. Maharaj Ji, though it did not last long, and though it didn't continue, some circumstances came up and everything ended. But my attachment to him became so strong that I cannot forget him. Maharaj Ji, when that person comes into sight, [I can't forget him]. "If you play the games of lust, and your mind stays impure, how will you be able to forget? Shame on such a life, that on receiving a human life, the matter of God never came up. [It should be] 'I cannot forget God.'"

This should be the benefit of life. By becoming attached to these perishable bodies, and by experiencing the pleasures of the senses and sense-enjoyment, I cannot forget them. Then shame on your intellect. By degrading and corrupting your life, you have attached your intellect to a human being. This is the path to going to hell. What other path is there? If you are choosing a life partner, choose once, and if you have kept that life's commitment to the end, then he is your life partner. But if there is a tendency toward promiscuity, today with this one, tomorrow with that one, the day after with another, and the day after that with another, which people now call breakup, boyfriend, girlfriend, breakup, then a boyfriend, then a breakup, then a third boyfriend, what is this? Is there no discipline today? There is no discipline of parents, no discipline of society, no discipline of scripture, no discipline of God. Nobody accepts it. That is why people act arbitrarily. Who gave you the right to act arbitrarily, brother? Once you accepted the hand in marriage (pāṇigrahaṇa), you kept that commitment for life. You have no discipline over yourself. You don't know your own dharma. The body becoming impure again and again, body after body, what is this?

The mind is attached to the body. The mind is becoming impure. It is becoming a treasure-house of sin. Go to hell, suffer hell. What benefit have you gained from this rare human body? These days this tendency is running. It is not your matter, child. This tendency is running these days. This is nothing new. This tendency has been going on. Chant the name of God. Live with restraint. If you have a woman's body, choose one man once. Choose him for life. If that breaks, live in brahmacharya, remain in brahmacharya for life. This thinking and tendency is the path to going to hell.

Triviдh narakasadam dvaaram naashanaatm kaam krodha tathaa lobha tamaam taje

These three are the gates to hell that destroy the self: lust, anger and greed. Give up all three.

These three are the gates of hell: lust, anger and greed. Whoever is trapped in these is going to hell. What else is there to do? To cultivate the tendency toward hell, because you cannot forget? You should feel disgust: the man for whom I surrendered my body did not become mine. So he is worthy of being forgotten, worthy of disgust.

Chant the name and walk on the right path, or else your human life will be of no use. We say that making friends is not a sin. Make friends with anyone, but making filthy friendship is a sin. Being promiscuous is a sin. Why do you do this? If your friendship is firm, then keep it for life. Take the blessings of your parents. Worship and bow to the deities. Get married. Live together, no problem, but live for life. What is this? Love this one, love that one too, love yet another. When that is the case, no one has any discipline over you. That is why arbitrary conduct happens.

Do you have so many years left? What will arbitrary conduct achieve? By hollowing out your life, you go to hell and strengthen the path to hell. So, child, be careful. Chant the name, stay alert, take refuge in God, and live your life in accordance with dharma. This divine human life has been given to you. Through it, attain the divinity of God. We say: all right, if you are going into household life, then go into household life. But describe for yourself one man. Look, these days arbitrariness is going on. Parents used to search for a groom, they would consult pandits, and marriages took place with great dharma, by worshipping the deities, and they lasted for life. We never heard of divorce in the village. We never heard of divorce. This promiscuous tendency that has started, girlfriends and boyfriends and live-in relationships, is where it began. Divorce too. We have never heard of divorce. Life-long sustenance happened because parents did it, by worshipping the deities, according to the scriptures and the pandit, taking the phere (the sacred rounds around the fire). Only then did they walk in dharma. Do not do any arbitrary conduct like this at all, or you will have to repent. The form of the world is very strange. One must walk with awareness.

Acharya Akhilesh Anand Ji, Haridwar, Radhavallabh Shri Harivansh, Radhavallabh Shri Harivansh Maharaj Ji, Maharaj Ji. We know everything. What is dharma? What is adharma? What is dharma?

But even knowing everything, you do not know adharma. You do not know. You do not know. Knowledge means that when you know, then the world is lost from sight, as when one wakes up, the illusion of a dream goes away.

Je jaane jag jaae haraae jaage jathaa svapn bhram jaae

Knowing which, the world disappears, just as on waking the illusion of a dream goes away.

When we are awake, do we really wake up in a dream? In a dream, do we see ourselves performing actions? It does not feel like I am dreaming. It feels like I am awake. Is that person really awake? The ignorant person who thinks he is awake in a dream is not awake. In the same way, you are in the ground of ignorance, and you are gathering information and saying, "I know what dharma is."

I know what adharma is. Whatever knowledge has become available to us is of prakriti, and it reaches only the intellect. It is not in your experience. If it is not in experience, then you know the whole process of making halwa, but you never sat down, made it, and tasted it. What is the benefit? Knowledge that cannot be used, what good is that knowledge to us? Are you understanding? This means we are weak in spiritual strength. We know that we should not do this. We know that we should do this. But what we should do, we cannot do.

We cannot give up what we should not do. This is the matter of honesty. The reason is the lack of spiritual strength within us. If we walk with restraint, stay established in the vow of brahmacharya, and constantly contemplate the Lord in our inner heart, then it will come. What we should not do, and do not want to do, even if life leaves us, and what we have to do, we should do with enthusiasm. The inability to put to use the knowledge we already have, the inability to stop what we should stop, is a lack of spirituality.

If we chant the Lord's naam abundantly and do shastra svadhyay, live in brahmacharya and eat pure food, then it will all come very well. Very well indeed. Our condition will be set right. We are devoid of contemplation of the Lord, and that is why, even with this knowledge, we are not truly knowers. If you put even as much knowledge as you have into practice, you would become a brahma-realised great soul. Who does not have this knowledge? When people in the village carry a funeral procession, they chant, "Ram naam satya hai. Speak the truth, and there is liberation." What greater knowledge could there be?

What greater knowledge could there be than this? If the truth in all three worlds is the Lord's naam, and chanting the Lord's naam brings liberation, yet they return while smoking bidis. They don't care what is being sung. They think this is sung for the one who has died, so they just sing the song. They don't understand its meaning. So everyone has knowledge, knowledge enough for their own welfare. Everyone knows they must die. Everyone sees others die. Everyone knows that everything here is perishable.

Everyone knows that no one takes anything from here. This much knowledge is enough. If we set out on the path of the supreme goal and this knowledge stays firm in us, we would become mahatmas. But this knowledge still falls within the realm of mere knowing. It is like a person dreaming: though he believes himself awake, he is still asleep. He considers himself awake, but when he truly wakes up, the dream goes away. The sign of waking is that the dream vanishes.

So true knowledge, the knowledge of dharma, means:

je jane jag jai jage jatha swapna bhram jai

Whoever truly knows it, the world vanishes for them, just as the illusion of a dream vanishes on waking.

For one who knows, the world disappears from before them, just as the whole scene of a dream disappears upon waking.

Then what appears?

Siya Ram main sab jag jani karahu pranam jor jug pani

Knowing that Siya Ram pervades the whole world, bow with folded hands.

So that we make our knowledge true, so that we can use our knowledge, chant the naam abundantly, and certainly pay attention to brahmacharya. Today our public is becoming engrossed in immorality (vyabhichar). Wherever you look, immorality holds sway. For those with impure intellect who want to hold on to spirituality, proper brahmacharya is needed in householder life, and complete brahmacharya for the renounced. Without brahmacharya, brahmacharya is the foundation of life. These days, all the young children, with their new girlfriends, boyfriends and masturbation, are destroying themselves. What is this? You are mocking human life, the human life that even the gods long for.

bade bhag manush tan pava sur durlabh sad granthan gava

Great fortune to obtain a human body, which even the gods long for and the holy texts sing of.

sadhan dham moksh kar dwara paye na je parlok sambhara

It is the abode of the means and the gateway to liberation. One who does not attain it, and does not set right the next world..

so partr dukh pav sir dhun dhun pachtae

..suffers in the next world, beating their head and repenting.

kalah karm ishwar mithya dosh lagae

..blaming time, karma and God falsely.

Therefore, chant the naam abundantly.

Mohit Sethi Ji from Gurugram, ji. Radhe Radhe, Maharaj Ji. Shri Harivansh Maharaj Ji. For the first 25 years, because of financial difficulties, I was busy with my studies. Now, considering my office work to be the highest duty, my life has passed until today, only with the hope of looking after my family. But since I accepted you as my guru, I have understood that the only aim of life is to surrender fully to God. Maharaj Ji, I have now reached such a position that I have to work 13 to 14 hours a day, and along with it, Maharaj Ji, chanting the naam is becoming very difficult. I can give only one hour a day to the naam, Maharaj Ji. There is pain in my mind, worry, and fear too.

But you don't keep speaking for 14 hours straight, do you? You can perform any action, and even within that, you get minutes and seconds, right? In those minutes and seconds, chant Radha Radha Radha Radha, and dedicate all of those 14 hours to the Lord. This will become surrender through karma, and you will become dependent on the Lord from the heart. In whatever time remains in your 14 hours, chant Radha Radha Radha Radha Radha Radha, do the naam jap. And if you sleep six hours after the 14 hours, let's see: 14 and 6 is how many? 20. So four hours are still left. Where will you give those four hours, Maharaj Ji?

What happens is that even after working 13 to 14 hours regularly, because the habit has formed, you keep thinking about that same work all the time. This is a wrong thing; correct it. It is not a permanent thing. When you die, neither will the office go with you nor all these tasks. Your one duty is worship.

Give those 14 hours to the work. We are not saying don't give 14 hours. Give 14 hours. After that comes the work routine. Now, for the other part, for your life's spiritual progress, we listen to a little satsang and do a little shastra svadhyay. Take one hour for self-review. What mistakes did we make in it? What should we do for progress? Reflect on that. Then three hours still remain. So do bhajan for three hours: shastra svadhyay, Thakur seva, naam jap, and devotional activities.

Do 14 hours of worldly work. Give one hour to reflecting on both of these activities. Sleep for six hours. That completes the 24-hour cycle. If you do this honestly, everyone has time for bhajan. If you are dishonest, nobody has time. People say, "We are householders." With that one word, they have wasted their entire life. Even if you are a householder, do you have to be busy with work every moment? After working 12 or 14 hours and sleeping six, you have four hours left. We set aside two of those for eating and recreation, one hour for food and one for entertainment. So give two hours to bhajan.

If you do bhajan for 120 minutes, you will begin to experience joy. Don't be dishonest about this. Spending your life only on worldly activities and entertainment gives you no real benefit. To understand the benefit of life, remember the day you will die. Our spirituality makes you strong for that day. When your death comes, your wife will not be with you, your friends will not be with you, your office will not be with you, your bank balance will not be with you, your house will not be with you, and no possessions will be with you. Did you waste your whole life for this? At the time of departure, what do you have? What will you take from this world? What goes with you from this world is the naam jap of Bhagwan's name, Radha Radha Radha, the good you did for others, the dharma you practised, and the pilgrimages you made. Keep one side of your human life for that, and keep another side for taking care of the next life, for managing the hereafter. So you must do at least two hours of bhajan. Even one to one and a half hours a day is fine. Yes, that's absolutely right. Keep doing naam jap in between, and offer all your remaining time to Bhagwan. Through the power of this offering of actions and remembrance of the Lord, you will certainly receive Bhagwan's grace. Chahat, Radhe Radhe.

Maharaj Ji, Maharaj Ji, why is Bhagwan's grace not equal for everyone?

Some people get happiness and success, while others face sorrow and struggle. What is the reason behind this?

No, child. Bhagwan's grace is equal for all.

Devanagari: sab mam priy sab mam upjae
"All are dear to me, and all are created by me."

Eyes, ears, nose, and the whole body's facilities are given to everyone. Air is given to everyone, the sun is given to everyone, and the moon is given to everyone. Bhagwan's grace is equal for all.

It is like a father dividing seeds among his five sons. One plants babool, one plants mango, one plants wheat, one plants chana, and one plants sugarcane. Now, what will each one get in return? The one who planted babool will get thorns. The one who planted sugarcane will get sugarcane. The one who planted chana will get chana.

Bhagwan has given us birth in the land of Bharat. How are our actions being carried out? Who will enjoy their results? In the Gita, Bhagwan says:

Devanagari: avashya mein bhoktuvi kritam karm shubhasham
"One must certainly experience the results of the good and bad actions one has done."

A father gave ₹100 to everyone. One squandered it on liquor. One on dirty habits. One on watching films. One on gambling. And one went and did Bhagwan's work. So he gave everyone an equal ₹100, but because they each used it differently, four will suffer and one will be happy. So Bhagwan is not the giver of happiness and sorrow.

Devanagari: nij krit karm bhog sun bhrata kou kahu kar sukh dukh data
"Brother, listen: everyone experiences the results of their own deeds. No one gives happiness or sorrow to another."

It is good to experience the results of our own actions. We have spoiled our actions. Bhagwan has not done this. Bhagwan does not have favourites or non-favourites. Devanagari: sab mam priy sab mam upjae, all are dear to me, and all were created by me. All are Bhagwan's children.

All arise from Bhagwan, and Bhagwan loves everyone equally.

Devanagari: sab par mor barabar daya
"My compassion is equal towards all."

Bhagwan has said this, but our conduct has deteriorated. Our actions have deteriorated. So as we act, the result of sinful actions is sorrow, and the result of virtuous actions is happiness. When we commit many sinful actions, we have to suffer sorrow.

Look, we have been given a human body, yet we act at will. People are eating chicken, eating goat, eating cow, eating buffalo. They have become demonic. Look at what is happening these days: girlfriends, boyfriends, and tendencies toward adultery.

Now you want happiness as the result of this. You will commit adultery, you will fall into addictions, you will indulge in violence and eat meat. You want happiness as the result of this? You will suffer hell, you will suffer here, and you will suffer there too. Live with restraint, live in celibacy, study the scriptures, listen to satsang, do naam jap, be compassionate to living beings, and bring welfare to others. Joy will come right now. So the path of joy is one way, and you are walking the other way. Then how will joy be attained? But all paths have been made by the Lord. Our Lord has made all paths. Bhagwan made the path to hell, Bhagwan made the path to Baikunth, and Bhagwan made the path to heaven.

Bhagwan made you too. Now, which path do you want to walk? All paths are before you. You can become a demon. You can become a god. You can become great. You can become lowly. As you conduct yourself, that is what you will become. This is not about Bhagwan. Are you following me?

Saurabh Ji, from Faridabad. Radhe Radhe.

Radhe Radhe, Maharaj Ji. Maharaj Ji, during any spiritual activity, such as naam jap or the paath of Chaurasi Ji, the mind runs very much toward worldly matters. Maharaj Ji, the same experience happens during daily tasks too.

Yes. The mind does not run away. It gets deleted. What is stored inside comes out. It is like when a message on a mobile phone is about to be deleted: it appears first. In the same way, when we do worldly work, the mind covers and stores things inside. When we do naam jap, sit in meditation, contemplate Bhagwan, or recite the scriptures, it is like a chip. There is a mind like a bhagwatik chip, in which everything that has happened over countless lifetimes is stored. To delete all of that completely, as much as we do naam jap, the dirty thoughts we don't want to think about, see, or do also come out. Sometimes nonsense comes out, sometimes thoughts of the past, and sometimes worries about the future. So we should remain calm, with the attitude of a detached witness. We should neither be troubled nor feel good about it.

Completely in a witness mode, we are absorbed in our own work. While chanting naam, that one is spewing dirty things; that one is becoming pure. The more pure one becomes, the more joy comes. And where one becomes fully pure, as the verse says: "Nirmal jan man so mohe pavā, mohi kapaṭ chhal chhidra na bhāvā." So we should see this: on our mind's chip, all of this is being deleted. It is not getting in. It gets in when we act turning away from God. Like a CCTV camera, the mind keeps recording everything, and when we do bhajan of God, all that recording keeps getting deleted.

So, reduce the recording. While doing naam jap at all times, carry out your actions. In seeing and hearing, cultivate the feeling of God, and good things go into the mind, while the bad things that are stored keep getting deleted. That is exactly why it takes time, isn't it? Otherwise, God-realization would happen instantly. One naam could bring God-realization: "Ek nām trailok hī tāre, jo na le so janm hāre." "Ek bār jin nām lī, hit so hoe ati deen, tāko saṅg na chhāṛahi, Dhruv apno kar līn."

So, first do bhajan wholeheartedly for once. Let the mind be deleted. These dirty things.. If you call out with humility and love, God comes into one naam. He comes running at one naam. Yes, Maharaj Ji, just as we constantly contemplate Vrindavan, but when we are in our own private moments, like when we are with our wife, then, Maharaj Ji, suddenly a lot of contemplation of this place arises. Yes, very good. Very good. Maharaj Ji, the mind feels inside as you say, that we should put on a play like this with everyone.

Yes, absolutely, absolutely, Maharaj Ji, there should be no decrease in that. Yes, in behaviour, there should be no decrease. The success, meaning, from within, this contemplation that "I should go to Vrindavan, not here" — that is a good thing. But when we deal with our wife, when we deal with our son, when we deal with the world, then the play should be perfect. No shortfall in the acting. Contemplation arises, Maharaj. Contemplation should be of God from within. The play should be of the world. Only then will you become a perfect actor.

On this stage of the world-drama, the role you have been given, you should play perfectly. Now it's not that we become sad with our wife. Now our mind goes to Vrindavan, so we won't talk to you. Not to you — this is a great grace, that when we are about to be bound by the bonds of worldly attachment, our mind runs to Vrindavan. Then our mind, Lord.. But no one should be able to know what the condition of our mind is. Yes, outward behaviour should be worldly, but inwardly our contemplation should be of God. This itself is the devotion of the householder's dharma.

This itself is the devotion of the householder's dharma.

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