Despite being engaged in sadhana for years, there is no result. This means that there is some internal flaw. They remain engaged in sadhana for years, and we feel that they do more sadhana than us. There are many such people. They may do more sadhana than us, but who knows where they falter, it is not understood. And even if we have no such sadhana, still there is no problem, still God progresses us further. That is the influence of intention. It is not that. If sadhana is abundant and the intention is somewhat weak, then in the long run, results do not come. And if sadhana is only a little, and the internal intention is to be liberated, then in a few days, one is liberated. The internal intention should be declared in the mind fearlessly, "This is not ours." One should feel that fearlessly. We ourselves do not let go of all this, and the other feels, "Even if he says no, he is mine." "We will bring him back somehow." "We will bring him back somehow." Because those people are more like inner-knowers than us, knowing that "this is deeply ingrained in him." "This is ingrained in him." Therefore, Manthara did not abandon her effort at all. Manthara did not abandon her effort. It is fine. It was said that if she spoke, her tongue would be pulled out, and yet she spoke again. "If ever you speak of Ram near me, I will pull out your tongue, you home-breaker." It is said so, "home-breaker." "So do you want to cause fights between us?" But still Manthara said, "No problem, I only want to bring harmony. I just have sympathy for you, what will happen to you?" "What will happen to you?" So when Kaikeyi went to sleep, she thought in her mind, "Her words are indeed true. What benefit does she have?" "Whether Bharat becomes king and you become the queen mother, I will still remain a maid," she had said. So she thought, "This is absolutely true." In this, her self-interest is not at all... ...is it there at all? She has no self-interest, so she felt a little... "Yesterday, what were you saying?" So the next day she thought, "Yesterday, what were you saying?" So she stammered, "It was nothing like that, I didn't mean anything, but like..." "...if you want to think about it." "I also say so, right?" So Manthara knew that there is weakness in this. There is weakness of intention. Even if she showed more affection than Kaushalya, still her intention is weak. No matter how much they leap in sadhana, but if the intention is weak, then... ...sadhana does not bear fruit. If someone's intention is weak, and we are all living together in satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → and we feel like helping, then how to help them to improve their intention? To make them realize, we should arrange something when we are not there. We should leave on the day they are to realize. If they realize and we are present, then they would think that we did it. But they should feel that naturally, "I have received this blow." "Naturally, I have received this setback, and it is due to my own karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → Such an arrangement should be made. Otherwise, no one changes their intention. We can change people by putting pressure on them externally, but how can the intention be changed? And either they understand the mahima of God, or they do good work for a long time, do good seva, then their mind... ...gets purified, then the intention becomes good. Otherwise, it does not happen. Intention means the causal body. Intention means the causal body. How can the causal body be purified in one day? And how does it change? If they run there... So, do something that makes them feel that their intention is becoming good. If there are science students, they are taught theoretically, then what is done? They are sent to the practical laboratory, "Go now, you practice." Theory is only a little, and practice is done more. So when they practice and if it hits their head, then the intention changes. In practice, they feel, "This practice is not worth practicing this theory." If they feel so in their mind, then the intention changes. And if they associate with satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → Despite being engaged in sadhana for years, sadhaks do not experience any special change in themselves, or real progress is not seen, the main reason for this is that they perform sadhana, We have talked about this many times, haven't we? That there was Narayan Bhagat, and on the other hand, there were other devotees. Hariprasad Swami and Mukut Swami and all of them were there, and there were others performing similar seva. The others did more seva than him. Narayan Bhagat's seva cannot be said to be sweat-inducing. And those others had made day and night one. Still, the result did not come. The result that came to Narayan Bhagat, Mukut Swami, Hariprasad Swami, or Kothari Swami, similar other individuals have gone much further than them. Those individuals have gone much further than them. In competition, they were such that they could beat all of them. They could beat Narayan Bhagat in seva, beat Kothari Swami, Mukut Swami, Hariprasad Swami, beat all of them, such individuals had performed seva. And those individuals are still wandering around. And no change has occurred in them. If they did much seva, why did no change occur? We said, they perform sadhana for a long time. And they perform sadhana that makes us tremble, and still no change occurs, why does it not occur? What is the reason that the change did not occur? They did not make any change in intention, rather they made the intention weaker. They did much seva. They performed much sadhana. They made the intention weak. Therefore, change does not occur. We say, don't we, that behind practice there must be intention. In the olden days, when a small child learned to walk, its mother, aunt, brother, or sister would hold its two fingers and make it walk, calling it baby steps. Then sometimes the child stands up on its own. Why? Its intention is very strong, seeing others running around, it feels, "I should also run around." So when others are running around, it also feels, "Why shouldn't I run, am I any less?" Even a child feels that "I am not less." So it feels like running, then it walks like this, stands up, then falls like this. Again it stands up, walks, and falls. So in walking, it might have walked one or two steps, and fallen four or five times. Still, does it learn to walk or learn to fall? What did it practice? Why? The intention was to walk, not to fall. Even though it fell many times, the intention was to walk. Therefore, it learns to walk. If one has made the intention to fall, then? If the intention is only to fall, how can one walk? Therefore, practice plus intention. Then it is called sadhana. If practice is there and intention is zero, then results do not come. No matter what, and if it is weak, then don't even ask. If it is weak, then it creates a weak platform for them. Seva creates a platform for us, doesn't it? It creates a platform of our choice. So if we have a weak intention, we fall heavily. It creates a platform of our choice. Therefore, practice plus intention, then we progress and results come, good results come, otherwise that other result is bound to come, it does come. For years... How to identify the intention? What is its follow-up, how to identify the intention? From the result. What was the result? Then their intention is such. If the result is good, then their intention... according to the intention, results definitely come. If we say that Narayan Bhagat's intention was good, how do we know that? Or if Kothari Swami's intention was good, how do we know? And if other such individuals' intention was not good, how do we know? Huh? From the result, we know if they are improving, if they are progressing, then it means that their intention itself is good. Their intention. If no improvement is occurring and weakness is increasing, then their intention is not good. Even if the platform is good, the work in hand, seva, or sadhana are all good, but if their intention is such, then no change occurs. Even though an anthill grew over Hiranyakashipu, no change occurred in his mind. Hiranyakashipu became covered by an anthill, he 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 → 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 → And an anthill grew over him, still no change occurred in his mind. And Valmiki Rishi became covered by an anthill, then when the anthill was opened, he was completely new, he had come into a completely new form. He had become like God. Why? Both were covered by anthills, so shouldn't both be equal? It is known from the result. That even though Hiranyakashipu was covered by an anthill, no change occurred, on the contrary... ...he became a confirmed demon. If he had not performed penance, he would not have become so great, because with less capacity, he would be less. But here, he became a demon with full capacity. Therefore, practice plus intention. For Valmiki Rishi, practice plus intention. And for Hiranyakashipu, practice plus intention. So its result comes like that. Results cannot come from practice alone. The intention must be good. If the intention must be good, then one should meet those with good intentions, and make some role models from them. Who is our role model? If our role model is completely rotten, internally, then how can we get good results in ourselves? So, who is our role model, that changes the intention. Make the goal good, make the role model good, make the surrounding environment good, of those with good intentions, then if we practice in that, our intention becomes good. Okay, there are two things, one is life transformation, and one is the result of life, and one is the result of seva. So the result of life transformation comes from intention. No matter how much sadhana is more or less, but if the intention is strong, then life transformation occurs quickly. Similarly, the result of seva that comes, is it skill-based, or based on intention, or based on both? I did not understand. Intention is measured based on the result, so in life, it is understood, but in seva also, whether a good result comes or a weak result comes, on what basis is that? Is it based on intention or based on skill? There are two results of seva, one is the result within us as an individual, and one is... ...success or unsuccess, like that. Success and unsuccess, depends on the method... ...on that it depends. If our method is not such that it succeeds, then its successful result does not come. And if we take advice on methods from good people who have succeeded in it, and work accordingly, then the result is good. If a change occurs in our personal transformation, that happens through intention. Personal change occurs, suppose... ...the action a person performs is indeed his life, he is not separate from it. If we have seva in our hands, then seva is what we are, like that. The way we perform seva, we are just like that. But if our intention in it is good, then change comes in our person. 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