A seeker keeps feeling that vices and bad conduct are not being removed, what should I do? Such worry or haste is the seeker's body-consciousness, not dutifulness. Dutifulness is needed. It is true that the inner enemies are strong. And it is true that one should not sit in their lap. But where is the dutifulness? If one sincerely fulfills their dutifulness, then God will help him. No matter how strong his inner enemies are, He will find a way out of it. God may not clear it all at once, but He will find a way, and do not sit blocking the way. [blank] A seeker keeps feeling that vices and bad conduct are not being, are not being removed, what should I do? Such worry or haste is the seeker's body-consciousness, not dutifulness. What if I cannot remain like this? What if I cannot observe the dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → Like that. It means that, his focus is only on his own weakness and on body-consciousness. Who is God, and how He protects the devotees, his focus is not on that. If, with inner sincerity, his effort is genuine and there is faith and refuge in God, then there is no room for such a thing to happen. One who is a true refugee of God, for him to consider himself a sinner is body-consciousness. There is no fault in considering oneself incomplete. There is no fault in considering oneself incomplete. To consider oneself a sinner and to feel afraid, that is body-consciousness. Like, what will happen to me? Will I be able to cross over or not? It means that his focus is on his own insignificance. His focus is not on the greatness of God. He has not even recognized God, and his vision is not towards God either. He keeps dwelling on himself, I am like this, I am like this, I am like this, and I am like this. That is why he feels that way. [blank] One who is a true refugee of God, for him to consider himself a sinner is body-consciousness. There is no fault in considering oneself incomplete, that is One must consider oneself incomplete. So that one does not become arrogant, one must understand that there are flaws in oneself. Very Again, do not become too happy looking at God. If one becomes too happy, then again there is trouble. So keep a balance. Dutifulness should not be lost. And the mahima of God should not decrease. Effort should be complete. And the mahima of God should also remain complete. Balance both. If one understands too much mahima, then he sits back, thinking, 'Oh, if God is like this, then we don't have to do anything.' Then he is said to have misused the mahima of God. [blank] There is no fault in considering oneself incomplete, that should be considered the fortune of those who walk on the path of God. To see one's own incompleteness, that is considered a great destiny for a devotee of God. Only the fortunate ones see it. What did Maharaj say? Who realizes their own flaws? One who has served God in the past, and one who has served the saints of God in the past and pleased God, he, in this birth, realizes his own flaws, not others'. If it is not realized, then keep in mind, know that we have not done anything in the past. That is why we do not realize our own flaws. Now, do it now, so that this time it is realized now. Even more than having direct darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → Direct darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → To see one's own flaws, that is even a step ahead of having darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → One who has had darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → If he overcomes one, another comes in front of him and shows that this is also left, still this is also left. Like that. It happens like that. [blank] Huh? He sees it, his own flaws, he sees them. One who does not see, he does not even see that 'I do not see my flaws.' For him, there is no way left to see the flaws. Flaws are not seen, so it means that he accepted that 'yes, they are in me.' If he is really doing it, then it cannot be that flaws are not seen. If his desire is real. But many times people, to make a good impression, show that 'I do not see my flaws,' which means that others say, 'No problem, you keep going ahead.' So he wants to keep going like that. To get proof from others. And either to establish his impression as a mumukshu mumukshu A person in search of moksh. Tap to open in glossary → in front of the other person, they do all this pretense. We do not enjoy that pretense much. If there is such pretense, we listen, no problem. But 'I feel very much like this and I feel very much like this,' brother, if it happens, if there is some restlessness, then one would start doing something. There is no restlessness, so he just keeps it in talking. So keeping it in talking is called hypocrisy, to make a good impression, 'I am very good,' and to make an impression on the other person, they talk like this. If he feels restless about his flaws, then he would make some effort. If he needs someone's help in making effort, and he asks for help, then that is true. Otherwise, it is false. Where is the restlessness in his mind? If flaws are being seen, flaws are being seen, and then seeing the flaws, if he keeps getting confused, then? So that is called a flaw, as Maharaj said. Getting confused by flaws is called a flaw. It means there is not enough mahima of God. Is God greater or are flaws greater? Huh? So whom did we know? It means there is no faith in God from within. That is what it means. To recognize flaws and to know God as great. To remove flaws and still keep the mahima of God great, understand that. Keep faith in Him. And do not become fearless by keeping one's flaws. Though, if there is true faith in God, he feels restless about his flaws. He does not desire to tolerate them much. To tolerate them as they are, he keeps them, this much is certain, that flaws are not removed in one day. If one has practiced for a very long time, to keep them, then they will not be removed in one day, they will be removed gradually. But there should be restlessness for it, right? All of them may not know that, when they harvest millet and wheat, in that, it is called bhaku, they call it bhaku. Is it called bhaku or what? Bhaku. So when one gets bhaku on them, then he feels restless to take a bath quickly. Take off these clothes. Take a bath quickly and take off these clothes. Because its dust, it itches a lot. And it does not let one rest anywhere. So where is it, where does it not let one rest and itch like that? Some feel good about it. [blank] So of flaws, one should feel restless about them. And, there should be dutifulness. If there is dutifulness, and there are flaws, then for that, what did Maharaj, Gunatitanand Swami say? What did he say? They are like scabies and ringworm. Do not scratch them much. These people keep scratching, 'I have this, I have this, I have this, I have this.' Again, they go to others and start scratching, 'You start scratching me,' 'that I have this.' Are others supposed to remove our flaws? If they are to be removed, then Maharaj is to remove them. One should pray to Him. And do not scratch it much. If one keeps scratching, then it happens. Scratching means it is scabies and ringworm, brother. It will only increase. If one keeps scratching, it increases for him. If one does not scratch, then it gets cured automatically, if he forgets it. Such is the nature of scabies and ringworm. If one scratches it, it increases. So all these, flaws are like that. They are like scabies and ringworm. So if one performs his dutifulness, keeps busy in pleasing God, then will God not look at him? He is his master, will He not look like that? Maharaj said that He looks. The master knows, whether he is false or true. This, are we doing all these activities to protect the flaws or to, do we do activities to remove them, that, even if we do not see, no problem, even if people do not know, no problem, but God knows that this, he wanders all around but for his flaws, somehow, somewhere he gets protection, someone proves to us that 'you are right as you are, no problem, it is like this only.' Like that. [blank] There is no fault in considering oneself incomplete, that should be considered the fortune of those who walk on the path of God. To see one's own incompleteness is fortune. And God gets pleased. No doubt about it. After seeing the incompleteness, then what? Is there any duty after that? 'Incompleteness, incompleteness, my incompleteness, incompleteness,' like that. If he keeps scratching it, then that is not dutifulness. If he forgets it, and from time to time recalls it, looks at it, checks, makes a checklist of how many are left. Maharaj has said so. This much was removed and this much, is left, that must be done. And keeping an account, that, Maharaj has said so. Maharaj has not said to keep scratching. 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