Rāga-dveṣa-viyuktais tu viṣayān indriyaiś caran, ātma-vaśyair vidheyātmā prasādam adhigacchati. God has said so in the Gita. Prasāde sarva-duḥkhānāṁ hānir asyopajāyate, prasanna-cetaso hy āśu buddhiḥ paryavatiṣṭhate. As shown in these verses of the second chapter, the state of mind is called 'prasad'. Which is called a pleased mind. Generally speaking, three states of mind are experienced. A sad mind, a happy mind, and a pleased mind. Both happiness and misery, happiness and misery are diseases of the mind. When one transcends both, the mind's pleasure is attained. Just as there are diseases of the body, this is its disease. And in the body, disease is caused by an unhealthy diet. In the mind, disease is caused by foolishness. Foolishness is an unhealthy diet. So foolishness can be of many types. So all this happens due to the foolishness of the mind. [inaudible] Whatever confusion or tension arises due to responsibility, Maharaj has called it penance. We have taken some responsibility of God. And if difficulty comes in that responsibility, God called it penance. We are not doing it for our body or for our selfishness. So whatever comes in it, tolerate it. So tolerate it with a smiling face, and if there is awareness in it, one enjoys it. Shastriji Maharaj used to describe the troubles he faced with such a pleased mind. Swami used to get the maximum joy at that time. Because he himself had done it knowingly and understandingly. And he would not feel sad about it. Swami used to say that the prasad that the Nand saints received in small portions, I received all of it. They received a little, and I received all of it. And while talking about it, Swami's mind used to remain extremely pleased. So he has decided, he has taken up a mission, it is his vision to please Maharaj, and if some difficulty comes in it, the penance that happens, That would bestow pleasure upon him. It would not bestow tension. When it comes, it feels like tension, Maharaj says it is the nature of the mind, so even if that happens, find a way out of it, and one thing is certain: am I doing it only to please God or not? Then if there is tension from others, tolerate it. To please God. Then God is going to protect him. Do not worry too much. Contemplate. Do not worry. Worrying indicates a lack of faith in God. And contemplating is considered intelligent, it is considered the nature of intellect to contemplate. But worrying, we placed our head in God's lap, and then now will God do it or not? Will He do our work or not? If we are worthy, He will do it. If not, He will not. So that is called a lack of refuge in God and a lack of faith. If we are really doing it only to please God, and some tension comes, Then in that, our fear and worry show a lack of refuge. Fear too. We get scared that what will this person do to me, what will he do to me. So we considered him the doer. God is the doer and He will protect us. First, we should have some such faith, and if not, we should cultivate it. Slowly, how is it cultivated? Many times in the past, God has protected our work, So if He did it then, why won't He do it now? Based on that, as we keep doing good work, God is always involved. God is always involved, and He protects us in one way or another. So make a list of that in your mind. Where all Maharaj protected us and where all He did our work. And so we were wandering around with tension. But still, Maharaj made everything right. So Maharaj does our work. He does it, so keep some faith in Maharaj. Keep the strength of Maharaj's refuge. Then Maharaj is bound to protect us. So fear and worry are called indicators of a lack of refuge. If there is fear, we believe, we fear others, which means we consider them more powerful than God. Secondly, we doubt whether God will do it or not. So again, even if it is our mistake and perhaps God does not do it, we should accept it. Then his tension reduces. And he transcends body-consciousness. The main thing is that our devotion to God should continue. If there is tension, devotion to God does not continue. Our duty is to keep doing it continuously for God. And regarding the fruit, God has said in the Gita as well, 'mā phaleṣu kadācana'. God is not going to give the fruit to anyone else. God gives us the fruit of our duty to us only. He never gives it to others. God never makes a mistake. 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