The five vishayas are the nourishment for all, just as people live by eating grains of food. Fruits, water, leaves, and grass, without nourishment, living beings meet their death. Without nourishment, there is no way for a living being's life to remain, similarly, greed and other vices have attached themselves, powerful and undefeated. If there are fish in a body of water, and we tell them to go outside to urinate and defecate, will they go? Then? They do everything right there. They cannot be taken out. Therefore, all these internal enemies are connected to the jiva in two ways. In what two ways? Huh? As sustenance, right? Its sustenance also depends on them. And its weakness also depends on them. So, no one knows when it shifts from sustenance to weakness. Sustenance cannot be abandoned; it cannot be completely renounced. And they have to be kept pleased. And once kept pleased, it is over. Therefore, it is as difficult as walking on the edge of a sword. We must contemplate this. How difficult it is. Without nourishment, there is no way for a living being's life to remain, similarly, greed and other vices have attached themselves, powerful and undefeated. Through greed, the entire worldly affairs function, of the body and of everyone. And through desire, the body functions. Now, if you remove both of them, what will you do? Maharaj said that semen is the form of desire. And what manages this entire body and keeps it conscious, it keeps it so. And remove that, try to conquer it. And greed, Gunatitanand Swami said that we keep saying 'this is false, false, false,' and yet we keep putting it in our pockets. All that is others' falsehood, not ours. Ours is such that we keep putting it in our pockets. This world is false. Money is sin, and I consider money to be a sin. Even the leaders of our country, used to consider profit as a dirty thing. And they considered it a sin; many of our sadhus also consider it a sin, and we must certainly understand it so. We barely manage to escape from sin. And for sadhus, wealth is indeed a sin, isn't it? Is it a sin or is it called a merit? Do those with merit get it, or do those with sin get it? They used to act as if they considered it a sin. Wealth, money, meaning I consider it a sin. In a pure, honest way, I consider it a sin. Take care that it does not touch you. But still, when it comes, they put it in their pocket and then say 'sin'; brother, whatever remains in your pocket is sin. If it comes into this pocket, it becomes merit. Even if one repeatedly tries to remove them, or repeatedly tries to renounce them, that part from within does not leave until death. Even if one exerts great force against it, it is of no great avail, it does not reach the end, so understand this, O wise one. Just as a bird, flying high, wishes to touch the sky, how can the little bird reach it, whose home is on a tree? Similarly, apart from the vishayas, no one can remain without support, searching for such a flaw, no one can cross the ocean of worldly existence. The bodily flaws in the body, which have remained constantly tuned, to search and purify them takes time for everyone. Therefore, consider the glory of God to be great in your mind, Nishkulanand says, remove the distress from within. If one understands the glory of God and takes refuge, then one will have no distress. Even if all these are present, even in their presence, it will not remain. And if one does not take refuge, then no matter what happens, the distress will not subside. So, what should be done with both? Should one consider oneself faultless? Faultless, as long as there are faults, as long as there are faults in relation to the body, how can one consider oneself faultless? Huh? As long as they remain in the body, how can one consider oneself faultless? So what should be done, I ask? Take refuge in God and sit quietly, and do not show these things. Remain within the commands of God. Only then is it called taking refuge, right? Exert effort and remain within the commands. By the strength of God, by the promise of God, remain free of worry. O God, do not become deceitful in this. If there is a deceitful ox, when it sees a slope, it bends its knees and sits down. Meaning, it does not want to climb at all. When it sees a small slope, and if it is a loaded cart, then to it, it sees the slope, and sits down on the mountain pass road. Bending its knees, then it does not stand up at all; the one who sits knowingly does not stand up. If we have 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 → saying 'I am sick,' and thus 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 → So, a deceitful ox, then what does its master do? He applies a muzzle, a muzzle. Do you know what a muzzle is? Branding? No. Do you know what a muzzle is? Anyone, no one might know. Muzzle, does Nityaseva know what a muzzle is? On its mouth, they put some of that ash, on its mouth like this, and then press it a little, so its breathing stops, and it suddenly stands up. If it is deceitful, it will stand up, won't it? Because it is deceitful, it will stand up, it will suddenly stand up. So, do not do that. God might then apply a muzzle somewhere, then one will stand up again. Therefore, keep exerting effort, keeping God above all. Do not leave everything to God either. But, the Master is such, that one should remain at peace under Him. He is capable in every way. We must work with honesty. With inner honesty. Do not be deceitful. And do not plunge into where He has forbidden. Verse number 15. This jiva lives on the support of the five vishayas. Just as food, water, and fruits are the support of life, similarly, the five vishayas are also the support of life. If they are not obtained, it cannot live. Also, like life itself, greed, desire, and other flaws are attached to this jiva. If they... Flaws are the life of the jiva. Flaws are the cause of activity. This body functions, it functions on the basis of flaws. And worldly affairs function, they function on the basis of flaws. This world has emerged from flaws. It has not emerged from virtues, except that it has emerged from God's virtues, from God's compassion. And for all human beings, the jivas, this world has come about from their flaws. A person's birth occurs, it occurs from their desire. Creation occurs, it occurs through desire. Worldly affairs function, they function through greed. Otherwise, no one would even go to earn. It sits within. Therefore, flaws are the cause of activity. Without them, if those flaws are not there, a person would die. In this body, it is not that it lives because of much tonic, it lives if there is waste. If waste is completely gone, then right then and there it is finished. So, when does the greatest emergency occur? When one has loose motions. Quickly put him on an IV drip and do this and that, in that, a very long, wait is not to be made. If there is constipation, one can pass a day or two, no problem. But if loose motions have occurred, then, the waste must not be completely depleted. It, to this, does that boosting. Weakness boosts this world. It functions through weakness. Remaining in it, for a devotee of God to become free from this weakness, how difficult is that said to be? And yet, it has to be done. That 'now in this, nothing can be done,' Then, the intention is said to be bad. Then that intention is again said to be bad. Remaining in this, do not fall into its wounds. Then one emerges straight through. That does not mean, that 'I have become free from it.' But if one does not fall into its grip until the last breath, then he is said to have crossed over. It is not that there is nothing in him. That he has no greed or that desire has left him, based on what Maharaj has explained in the Vachanamrut, no one can say such a thing. But, prompted by it, he does nothing that violates Maharaj's command. Out of it, he does what pleases Maharaj. Then, 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