One should make efforts for auspicious deeds, but if it does not happen, one should not feel joy or sorrow. Make full efforts in auspicious deeds. But if it does not happen, then accept it as God's will. For that reason, do not become unhappy yourself. Do not fight. With others. Do not enter into conflict with others. That, brother, if we have too much attachment to this, that is why Gunatitanand Swami said not to become one with the action. Do not pile up these stones on your heart. Like that. Gunatitanand Swami has said, right? That stones are piled up only on the wall. Do not pile them on your heart. Like that, we do not pile up stones now. But we pile up all such things. So, perform auspicious actions, make full effort for it, make 100% effort. Make a lot of effort, not just 100%, but a little more. But if it does not happen, do not get disheartened. Do not get upset. Like that. Try again, remembering Maharaj. Then there won't be much of a problem. Otherwise, a problem will arise. If there is an auspicious action, an auspicious seva, and one feels that if it is lost, then God's seva cannot be done. So, is such a fear considered a flaw? If such a fear remains, is it considered a flaw? No, no. That is actually called caring about it. One must care about good things, right? Whether my moksha will happen or not, that my moksha happens and does not get spoiled, one must have such concern. Shastriji Maharaj used to say constantly that I keep looking at my heart continuously to see if I am forgetting, forgetting, forgetting. So that is called alertness. Lest my moksha gets spoiled, right? Lest it gets spoiled. So one must be careful about that. Otherwise, how would one know when it gets spoiled? But if one is careful, there won't be much of a problem. So, perform auspicious actions, and also preserve them, but do not get bound. That is why, in the characteristics of a sadhu, God has said in the Gita: That 'mukta mukta Free. Released. A liberated soul. A resident of any dhãm of Bhagvãn who has been freed from life in the lower loks to a more spiritually elevated state. There are varying levels of muktas: the muktas of Badrikãshram, Shvet-Dvip, Vaikunth, and Golok. The highest level of mukta, akshar- mukta, has attained ultimate kalyãn and is free from the bondage of Mãyã and the cycle of births and deaths. [Sãrangpur – 17]. Tap to open in glossary → 'anaham-vadi' 'dhruty-utsaha-samanvitah' 'siddhy-asiddhyor-nirvikarah' 'labhalabho jayajayo'. In that, one should learn to remain unaffected. And one should not just sit idle either, on the path of pleasing God. One must make some effort to please God. Do not sit idle to please God. Shastriji Maharaj was the mahant of the Junagadh Radharaman Dev Dev A demi-god who is given powers and responsibilities in the universe, and who lives in a higher lok. Devs are bhaktas of Bhagvãn and follow His ãgnã. Tap to open in glossary → Even then, how painful would it feel to a person? For us, it is not much of a problem, but otherwise, if you yourself had developed Bangalore a lot, and then they hold your ear and tell you, 'Brother, go and sit in Bidar,' or 'sit in Raipur,' then how painful would it feel? One has put their blood into it, and how painful would it feel? Still, it did not feel painful. He did another thing, see, and then did this other thing in that itself. Otherwise, Swami could have just sat sat 1) True. Real. 2) Permanent, imperishable and unchanging. Is unbound by the past, the present, and the future. Tap to open in glossary → bhajan bhajan Worship. Tap to open in glossary → So, accept God's will, what else? When our hands cannot reach, and we must make efforts in auspicious actions, but if our hands cannot reach, then assume it is God's will. But if one gets disheartened and completely down, then next time he cannot please God. That is why 'dhruty-utsaha-samanvitah'. 'Siddhy-asiddhyor-nirvikarah'. 'Labhalabho jayajayo' like that. 'Sukha-duhkhe same krutva labhalabho jayajayo' then? 'Tato yuddhaya yujyasva'. 'Tato yuddhaya yujyasva'. Winning or losing is in God's hands, but fighting the battle is in your hands. So for us it is not like that, it is not that fighting the battle is in our hands. Making efforts is in our hands. We do not have to take inspiration to fight battles much. Otherwise, if there is nothing now, where will we fight, with whom will we fight? At that time Swami, at that time, when after making efforts the result is to come, whether that result is success or failure, so at that time shouldn't some analysis be done, because the result itself is the indicator of the effort? The result is, the result indicates the effort. Right? So now in this, it is said that if failure occurs, do not get disheartened, but shouldn't analysis be done? In that, the meaning is, have you made the work your target or have you made God your target? For example, you are doing seva, so have you made completing that seva 100% your target, or have you made pleasing God by doing that seva your target? To please Him. Then you can maintain balance in gain and loss, victory and defeat. It does not mean to reject the work or completely neglect it. But above that, His will, for whom it was done, is such that it is not happening, we have made our effort. We alone cannot achieve success in any work, believe that. That we make efforts and when God joins in, then that work is completed. If there is no flaw in our effort and still the result does not come, then believe that God's will is such, what else? And what else can we do? What can we do? We cannot do anything else, we would have done as much as we could. If we have not done as much as we could, then there is a need to feel sorrow for it. That we did not do this, did not do it that day and now we have to suffer its result. Then there is indeed a need to feel sorrow. Even then, God said there is no need to feel sorrow, but to correct it and hold on again. But do not feel sorrow, like that. One should make efforts for auspicious deeds, but if it does not happen, one should not feel joy or sorrow. A devotee of God should keep his body, senses, and mind engaged in auspicious deeds. Keep them constantly engaged, make them run. Do not hold back in auspicious deeds. Never hold back in making efforts. But sometimes if the effort is not successful, do not get disheartened. Keep doing it continuously, again and again, keep doing it, success will be achieved. When we were young, there was a poem, 'A spider making a web falls to the ground and gets scared, yet tries to climb up on an unbroken thread'. Such a nice poem, perhaps by Dalpatram, Dalpatram liked this very much. So there was a spider, and it was the monsoon season, so the spider climbs straight up by spinning a thread, straight... where did you and I see it one day? Like that, it goes straight up like a rocket. And it leaves a thread behind and runs into the sky like a rocket. So the spider wanted to climb up like that. But it cannot climb up, then wind comes or whatever happens, it falls down. So it climbs again, climbs again, climbs again. Doing so, it barely reached. And as it reached up to its destination, a herd of cattle came. So the herd came, and if it had not reached before the herd came? It would have been crushed. So its moral is to say that, try and try, but a good try, not a weak one. Keep making good tries. And God does help him, if we make a good try, God helps. 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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