When the authority is gone, then one's confidence goes down. Now, there is confusion whether there is interest in seva or in authority. It means that confidence goes down, which means that he has more interest in that than in seva. He gets discouraged, which means that he thought in his mind that he failed somewhere. That's all. Yes, that's right. I failed somewhere. If he had continued to do seva, there would be no question of him failing, and if his target was only seva and he considered success based on seva, then he would never think in his mind that he failed. He doesn't feel in his mind that he failed. Sometimes, it's God's grace that we are in satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → He would have already done the seva, his tempo doesn't go down. His tempo goes down only if the seva is going away. He feels bad about it. If he doesn't get the seva, he feels bad about it. So, that means there is so much deficiency. If one's confidence is going down, it means that he doesn't have confidence. That is a slight aspect of ego that goes down, and it hurts him. It hurts the ego, so he feels that way, otherwise there is nothing else. When the occasion of losing authority comes, it's already too late. Huh? To go or to come? It means that when authority is snatched away, it's often too late for that occasion, so what does he understand in the present so that he might have that interest? His Maharaj said that one should examine oneself as much as possible. Suppose he got authority, and during that time, he had thoughts like, "What good seva can I do in this?" Using authority, what good seva can I do in this? And what does that one think? "I have authority for a short time, so what can I gain from it?" If he comes for five years in politics, what does he think? "What seva can I do?" He has a fixed time for both, that it is for five years, so he thinks in those five years, "What can I gain from this?" Saints were talking earlier, weren't they, that the Gram Panchayat elections just happened, and each member spends three crores. In that village, each member spends two or three crores. So if he comes in five years, then what does he think? I should gain something more, right? He has to do it within that time duration. We have received authority, so it's the same thing. He has received the authority of a sarpanch, and we have received this authority. So, during that authority, I should do such seva that I haven't done in my life, which is considered as seva somewhere. There is a unique platform or possibility of a place that others cannot do. Sitting in another place, there is no such possibility. So, if he focuses on that possibility and fulfills it, then he will not regret it. But that other thing, it depends on what possibility he has assumed, that in five years I have to achieve this, collect this much. If he has thought of collecting that much, then he will feel bad about it. But if they are sitting, then the plan, suppose you say that when everything is finished, then you know, but you don't know only when it's finished. You know until the beginning, even before the beginning. He has that thought in his mind that if it comes, I will complete it. If anything comes into my hand, I will finish it. So, if he has such a desire to complete it, then it can be done. Huh? Huh? It means that if he has his own acquaintance, then he will have such a desire. So, if he is sitting there, he must have at least that much acquaintance, that he knows what he has to complete. He will know what his goal is only if he investigates, otherwise not. If he doesn't investigate, he won't know. But this is for the mumukshu mumukshu A person in search of moksh. Tap to open in glossary → Swami, If we are doing some seva while in authority, and we are the main responsible person in it, and we also have a role in it, and then we fail in it, and then we regret that we were in it, we also had a role, and we failed, and such regret occurs, then ego also plays a role in it. XYZ lost money. One should be careful that at least I lose instead. Yesterday, you had something like partnership and team, partnership and team. That's what it meant. If one is not happy with his own role and has a desire for seva, then he should take help from others' roles, saying, "I am not able to focus on this, so tell me. I want to do seva, I want to complete it, but you help me a little." That help is the demand of a mumukshu mumukshu A person in search of moksh. Tap to open in glossary → He has mumukshuta, that he wants to do seva, but he asks for help because he doesn't understand it, he is new to it. So, it means that he doesn't feel like doing seva. But if we are sitting on a platform and it gets spoiled and we don't feel bad about it, then what does it mean? It means we are not here to serve. We are not here to serve, we are here to enjoy. If it gets spoiled, let it be. We are fine with God's will, we have no problem. Our well-being is already happening. So, he is not interested in seva. XYZ is something else, but not in seva. If we are sitting and it gets spoiled in front of our eyes, then what does it mean? It means he doesn't have any burning desire in his stomach, that what am I doing here? He doesn't know what he is doing here. So, there is joy in sitting, not in that other thing. 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. 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