Shreeji Maharaj has said, "I am as compassionate as Dattatreya, Jadbharat, Narad, and Shukji. And once in the eastern region, I was with a group of Nagda ascetics, and all those ascetics told me to pluck the green amaranth leaves. At that time, I said, 'There is life in them, so we will not pluck them.' Then one of them unsheathed a sword and threatened me, yet we did not pluck the green leaves. Such is our compassionate nature. Even then, if someone looks at a devotee of God with a cruel gaze, and even if he is our own close relative, we feel like gouging out his eyes. And if he deliberately hurts a devotee of God, we feel like cutting off that hand. Such is the dislike we feel for him. But there, compassion does not remain. And whoever has such loyalty towards God and God's devotee, that is called intense protective concern. What is it called? Compassion does not remain, but instead, intense protective concern arises. If someone looks at a devotee of God with an angry eye, then we do not feel compassion for him. Our natural disposition is compassionate. Even if there is no self-interest, yet we feel like helping him, even without self-interest. If there is self-interest, it would naturally happen, so our nature is compassionate. But if there is a devotee of God and someone looks at him with an angry eye, then we feel like gouging out his eyes. There, compassion does not remain, but intense protective concern arises; such intense concern arises in the mind. Intense protective concern means that we are not satisfied even after causing him harm. We are not satisfied with causing him harm. And if he is a devotee of God, then empathy arises there. There, we do not see justice or injustice. How to help him, we do it without looking at justice or injustice, then that is called empathy. Indeed. So this is the Vachanamrut of EQ, Maharaj said that, the balance of emotion. Is it called the balance of emotion or not? One balances money, right? Do we spend only as much as the income or not? Or what if we spend more? The balance is not maintained. And it goes up and down. Similarly, one who balances emotions, that is called EQ. EQ, meaning Emotional Quotient. So it is called EQ. Regarding EQ, here Maharaj has spoken of the EQ of the path of moksha. Actually, this is called Spiritual Quotient, SQ. If one desires liberation, then emotions must also be balanced. If anger is expressed everywhere, then that is called an angry nature. But where it is appropriate to express it, there one does, and where it is not appropriate, one does not, then that is called EQ. It is called Emotional Quotient. And through that, it becomes useful for liberation. Where it is appropriate, one does, and where it is not, one restrains it, controls it. Then that is called EQ balance. It is called emotional balance. One must maintain emotional balance. One should not just uniformly help everyone if helping, or fight with everyone if fighting; one should not do that. One who wants to go on the path of moksha should not do that. One who wants to go on the path of moksha, What does EQ mean? What does Emotional Quotient mean? Where and how much emotion? How to get more production from emotion? How to get more positive production? Minimum emotion and maximum production, gain, benefit. That is called Emotional Quotient. So, does one know how to use it or not? When a person gets emotional, balance is not maintained at all. And for Maharaj, even if there is intense emotion, there is still balance. Even with intense emotion, Maharaj feels intense protective concern. And empathy arises. Empathy and intense protective concern, both are intense emotions. Not ordinary emotions. But still, Maharaj has balanced it, that if empathy arises, it should only be here, and if intense protective concern arises, it should only be here. Only then is great fruit obtained. Otherwise, fruit is not obtained. And if intense protective concern arises, it happens everywhere, and if empathy arises, it happens everywhere, then Maharaj says to consider him as non-devotee. Him as non-devotee. If we have not decided the proper place for our empathy, and if we have not decided the proper place for our intense protective concern, then whatever comes, wherever it comes, it goes and happens. Then it does not distinguish between worthy and unworthy recipients. Therefore, an advance plan. Maharaj says, "We have made an advance plan." Of what? Of not having any disturbance. Of not having any disturbance. And even if disturbance comes, an advance plan has been made for that too. What causes disturbance? It comes either from empathy or from intense protective concern. Either too much empathy arises in the world, then it causes disturbance, or if too much intense protective concern arises for someone, it causes disturbance. And if it is of this world, then it happens from that, meaning from body-consciousness, from material objects, from the loss or gain of material objects, it happens from that. But on the path of God, disturbance is caused by that intense protective concern and empathy. What if it happens? It is said so. But we do not mind if such disturbance happens, that should be done. That disturbance bears fruit. Fruit-bearing is glorious, faultless. If it yields great fruit, and you have to make an effort, then what is the problem? If one gets more money and has to do overtime, how much is the wage for overtime? It is double. It is double, right? So what do people do? Are they fresh during overtime or tired? Tired. Yet they are fresh. During overtime, even if they are tired, they are fresh, why? Fruit-bearing is glorious and faultless. If the fruit is great, if great fruit is obtained with little effort, if one gets two hours' worth of wages for doing one hour of work, then even if they are tired, they would do it, right? Indeed. So, fruit-bearing is glorious and faultless. So even if that disturbance happens, there is no problem, Maharaj told us. We have made such an advance plan to cause such disturbance. An advance plan has been made. So if there is no advance plan, and if a chance is missed and it does not happen, then disturbance, then he suffers a loss. Here, it is the fruit of that disturbance itself. The occurrence of disturbance itself is beneficial. If disturbance does not occur, there is no benefit, zero. Look, look, it is still said so, it is said so, this is what it means. Maharaj said 'intense protective concern' at the end, and earlier he said 'empathy'. When Ramanand Swami passed away, Raghunathdas was the only one who did not feel any empathy. He was just laughing and talking; what was he talking about? He must be talking about the Gita. He was laughing and he felt no empathy, no grief; he felt no empathy like, 'Oh, Swami has passed away.' Swami's time to go had come, so he went, what else? What can we do about it? That is God's will, and our will. Swami was a bit late in going; he needed to go one or two years earlier. If he had gone before this Varni arrived, then this trouble would not have occurred. He went one or two years late, right? How many years late did Ramanand Swami go? He passed away immediately after handing over the seat; he handed over the seat in Samvat Samvat The calendar established by Indian emperor Vikramaditya of Ujjain following his victory 56 BCE. It is a lunar calendar based on ancient Hindu tradition. The Vikram Samvat calendar is 56.7 years ahead of the solar Gregorian calendar. The calendar most commonly used is the Kãrtiki Samvat, which begins on the first day of Kãrtik. However, the Vachanãmrut is written using the Ashãdhi Samvat, which begins on the first day of Ãshãdh. Tap to open in glossary → Indeed. "Such is our compassionate nature, even then, if someone looks at a devotee of God with a cruel gaze, and even if he is our own close relative, we feel like gouging out his eyes. And if he deliberately hurts a devotee of God, we feel like cutting off that hand; such is the dislike we feel for him." Even if he is a close relative. Close relative, meaning even if he is a beloved relative, a beloved relative among relatives. Even if he is a beloved relative, yet we feel intense protective concern against him; we are not satisfied with causing him harm, even if disturbance occurs. That disturbance is a liberation-oriented disturbance, so even if disturbance occurs, there is no problem, liberation is obtained. AI translation of the Gujarati transcript above, produced in the same pass that transcribed the audio, one English segment per Gujarati segment. 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