Furthermore, that which is free from cruelty, harshness, sharpness, taunting, criticism, backbiting, and insulting others, and which is spoken with loving, sweet, simple, and peaceful words, is called pleasing. [inaudible] when a sentence is spoken, there is no intention to create controversy or fear. Even if it is a true statement, if it later turns into a controversy, then that What is called austerity? What is called austerity? That which you restrain is austerity. There should be some difficulty in it. Right now, we might have spoken naturally, and even if we had no intention, still, to speak after thinking that this will not cause distress to anyone in the future, that is called austerity. Those who speak naturally, speak with austerity. It is a physical sentence, but it is physical conduct. What is the difference between that natural conduct and conduct with austerity? There is difficulty in austerity. In austerity, when one performs such conduct with some difficulty, then it is called austerity. What if it is natural? It is not called austerity. It is not called austerity. Because it must be difficult for him. So it is the same with speech; even if one speaks naturally and it does not cause distress to anyone, still, first one should speak after testing it properly. Meaning, speak in such a way that it does not cause distress to anyone in the future either. And to think about that, that itself is called austerity of speech. What does 'piercing the secrets of others' mean? Taunt. What does a person call it in Gujarati, in Gujarati, in sarcasm. Sarcastic sentence. Do not speak sarcastic sentences. The very same thing can be pleasing and beneficial, there is indeed a way to speak like that too. Meaning, even if it is for their benefit, a person can speak in a way that breaks their heart. And even if there is no benefit to be done, one can speak a sweet sentence to them. There are many ways of speaking, there are many ways of speaking, methods. So, to find such a good method, that is the opinion. And finding a good method is difficult. Speaking according to one's own nature is not difficult, and one enjoys it. In the other, one might not enjoy it; perhaps that also happens. If it is pleasing and beneficial, and one keeps speaking sweetly, then no one takes it that seriously. What? If it is pleasing and beneficial, and say, one speaks sweetly, and the other person does not take it seriously, then? If they do not take it seriously, then it depends on what kind of work we want from them. If they do not take it seriously, and we are telling them for their own good, and they do not take it seriously, then never mind. Their fate. If we want to get some work done from them, and they are not taking it seriously, then we have to apply some force so that they take it seriously. Why? We have to bring that. This is penance, isn't it? Whether they take it seriously or not is not very relevant. It is about whether you are performing penance of speech or not. That which is free from violence, jealousy, hatred, enmity, etc., and is filled with love, compassion, forgiveness, generosity, auspiciousness, etc., and which does not cause harm to oneself or others in the present or in the future, such a sentence is called beneficial. A person should speak the truth, but that truth should not be spoken in unpleasant words. There are also many ways of speaking the truth. It can be spoken in unpleasant words and it can also be spoken in good words. Both ways exist. So, to speak in a way that can be spoken in good words, that is called austerity. Find such a way. If I want to convey this thing to his mind, then there are many ways. So, to find a good way, that means we have performed austerity. A person should speak the truth, but that truth should not be spoken in unpleasant words. Someone might say that truth is always bitter, but that is not true. That is one's own belief. That truth is always bitter is a memorized belief. It is not that truth is always bitter. The scriptures say that truth can be made sweet. Even truth can be made sweet. AI translation of the Gujarati transcript above, produced in the same pass that transcribed the audio, one English segment per Gujarati segment. Devotional and technical terms with no precise English equivalent (kirtan, satsang, vasana, samskara, and similar) are kept as their plain transliteration rather than force-translated. Not human-proofread., AI-translated, unverified · Source details