If a devotee or seeker walking on the path of God is genuine, he is not stopped by obstacles, adversities, or lust, anger, and greed; he does not halt. On the contrary, he becomes more passionate. He would not be stopped by internal enemies if he has developed true love. Maharaj says that patience does not waver. Atmanishta comes automatically. Vairagya and jnan-vairagya, as much as one needs, come automatically. He does not have to force atmanishta. Do these householders tolerate more, or do we tolerate more? Who does more? Huh? If you fast, they might never fast. If you perform dharana-parana, they might never do dharana-parana. So are you more tolerant, or are they? After fasting? After fasting, we lose our temper. So do you tolerate more enjoyment, or do they tolerate more enjoyment? Huh? How? If they are engrossed in business, then what about hunger and thirst? Huh? They don't even remember it. And we cannot miss a single mealtime. You would die otherwise. They fast on Ekadashi. If everything is fine, they fast. But we keep thinking about the mealtime since morning. And they don't even remember it. Hunger, thirst, and not getting one's way—they tolerate more of that. They tolerate more. But that cannot be called atmanishta. Still, it cannot be called atmanishta. What if they tolerate it for God? Then it can be called so. So, everyone is tolerating. It's not that they don't tolerate; they tolerate even more than we do. If there are facilities, God can be served more, right? If so? Then we must do it. If there are facilities, God's seva can be done more, but you are of no use. In facilities, are we utilized, or are the facilities utilized? Huh? Facilities. So who performed the seva? The facilities or you? Who is said to have performed the seva? Huh? Due to the facilities. Did the facilities perform the seva, or did we perform the seva? So we were of no use in this. Who has the desire to utilize oneself? We should have the desire to utilize ourselves, thinking, 'Let me utilize whatever virtues or abilities I have.' So facilities reach before us to serve God. Siddhis arrive and ask, 'Tell us, what do you need?' Then? Facilities reach first and perform the seva. We are left out. This is how the whole life goes. We ourselves are of no use in serving God. Only facilities are utilized. That is why facilities are said to be more of an obstacle than actual obstacles. What are siddhis called? In the Bhagavatam, what are siddhis said to be? Obstacles. They are called obstacles. They are called impediments. Impediments in what? In going to the abode of God. In going to the abode of God and in serving God. They are impediments in serving God. How are they impediments? They keep us engaged. Where do they engage us? If one is a devotee of God, he would only be serving, right? So how are they impediments? They perform the seva and do not let him do it. What do siddhis do? If we have attained siddhis, what else would you do? Ask for money? Siddhis would say, 'Prepare a nice thal.' So we don't need to go until afternoon. And offer it as well. Especially at three o'clock. The difficulty is only at three o'clock, right? The difficulty is not in the afternoon. Why not? At that time, we are awake. So that? After that, our part is left. So we tell the siddhis for that three o'clock part, 'You prepare the best thal of dry fruits, and you also chop them.' And are the disciples' disciples not siddhis themselves? They will prepare even the morning thal, won't they? They will heat the morning milk, won't they? They do it sometimes nowadays. When the devotee had siddhis, they would do it. Others doing it for you is what siddhis are, what else? Others doing our work—the seva of God that we are supposed to do, if others do that seva of God, then that is called siddhis, what else. What do siddhis do? They do our work. They do the work we ask them to do. And we are not going to ask for anything other than God's seva. Or would we ask for anything else? Like, 'Sweep this ground.' So that is also God's seva, right. So, siddhis are obstacles in seva and are called impediments. What do they impede? Impediment means coming in the way. What do they come in the way of? They do not let one perform seva oneself. They do not let us be utilized in God's seva; that is what siddhis are. Whether some person does it or siddhis do it, whoever does it. But nowadays, if we get work done by people, that comes under management, right? It comes under management if we get work done by people. What does it come under? Management. This comes under management. So we should also sometimes come under management. Do we have any role in management or not? If we want to get work done by others? Still, no problem. We can also do a little bit. We should also have something to do, even if it is managing, no problem. But we should have something to do, right? Or do nothing at all and only manage? We should also do it. Management means getting everyone to serve God as well. And we? We should also do it and get them to do it as well; that is management. We don't need to leave our part and just manage them. We should also serve God and get them to serve as well. King Ambarish used to manage. When all those managers came and said, 'We will do all your management,' King Ambarish said, 'I will get each one of you to do it, come to the temple.' And perform seva. And I will also do it. That is called management. We should also perform bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → And get others to do it; that is called management. It is written in Swami ni Vato that if there is a king like King Gaja and an Acharya like Raghuvirji Raghuvirji Adopted by Swaminarayan Bhagwan from His younger brother Ichharamji; became the first Acharya of the Laxmi-Narayan Dev Gadi at Vadtal -- the Vadtal Gadi lineage this platform's own content follows. Tap to open in glossary → bhajan bhajan Worship. Tap to open in glossary → They worship God like a king. In the sense of management. They worship God like a king. If a devotee or seeker walking on the path of God is genuine, he is not stopped by obstacles, adversities, or lust, anger, and greed; he does not halt. On the contrary, he becomes more passionate. But if the same devotee He is not stopped, he would not stop. Who is our Swami today? 'Passionate souls like Gopichand and others.' The sister of Dhruva's mother. They called the child a lot. If he develops vairagya, and if obstacles come, can he be stopped? What if he gets facilities? Then he might stop. If obstacles come, he does not stop. One who has vairagya and has found the path to walk towards God, if obstacles come, he does not stop, if he is a genuine seeker. But facilities cool down even a genuine seeker. Was Govind Swami a genuine seeker of God or not? Huh? He had set out chanting 'Ram Ram' with great intensity. So that did not obstruct him. No greed could tempt him. But Gangama's dal, rice, and rotli stopped him; comfort came. The thal must be coming daily, right? 'You don't have to prepare any thal, it will come from there.' Please take the prasad. Gangama was a Brahmin. So. If there is a loving devotee, do you accept his thal or not? Do you not accept? You should accept. 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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