Thus understands the wise saint. Others pull and tug a lot. Considering oneself and others as proof. Everyone gets troubled without reason. Getting troubled without reason, that is our lack of understanding. Like the anvil of a blacksmith. Just as a beautiful garment is worn, it may be filled with itching due to its nature, causing pain and heat. Just as a beautiful garment is worn, it may be filled with itching due to its nature. If we do not remove it from our body, then the pain will not go away. What does it mean when it's filled with itching? Something that causes itching. What is it called in local language? They say 'bhaku bhaku'. In the country, they call it 'bhaku'. When millet cobs are put in a pit, dust flies from them. That is called 'bhaku', it causes a lot of itching. So, they call the cooker 'kandu kandu'. Kandu kandu means itching. It means it causes itching like a cooker. The dust from millet and sorghum causes a lot of itching. Wheat causes a little less itching than that. After that, others are a little less. So, Then, if one sits wrapped in that sheet, itching starts. What did the example say? Yes, itching comes from the sheet, that's all, nothing else. What kind of itching arises? What, Swami? If there is a lack of understanding. Huh? Lack of understanding means the itching of one's own lack of understanding. So, lack of understanding is not something to be worn, is it? What did it say in this? You have to read it and say it. We directly If one wears good clothes, but they cause itching, then one does not feel happy. Which good garment have we worn? So, itching comes. The garment of body-consciousness is that garment. Body-consciousness. We have worn the garment of body-consciousness, it seems very good to us, but it causes itching. Someone says something happens, it doesn't end in any way. We are of body-consciousness, aren't we? If one is a householder, then family attachment. They call it attachment, don't they? Yes. So, if the son falls ill, or the wife has some problem, or some difficulty arises. Then who gets the itching? The son or whom? His father gets it. Where else would it go? Itching. If someone says something good or bad to us, we immediately get the itching. We don't have separate things, we carry everything together. They spread everything separately and move it around. We carry everything together. So, we get this itching. He gets his own. Just as a beautiful garment is worn, it may be filled with itching due to its nature. If we do not remove it from our body, then the pain will not go away. If someone tells you that you don't know how to sing kirtan kirtan Divine songs about Bhagvãn and His charitras, usually sung to the accompaniment of musical instruments. Tap to open in glossary → sang sang Company. Association. (pronounced sung) Tap to open in glossary → If you don't know how to sing kirtan kirtan Divine songs about Bhagvãn and His charitras, usually sung to the accompaniment of musical instruments. Tap to open in glossary → What happens? What happens to them, brother? You know what happens, don't you? Sometimes, one might know. What happens? It doesn't feel good. Good. So, body-consciousness feels like a blow. So, itching starts. So, listen. What else? What about us? If we don't know, then you. Listen to others again. Listen to those who speak well. If our body-consciousness is even slightly hurt, then there is a big problem. So, body-consciousness means that someone should not praise our actions. No one should praise our disciple. Sometimes, it happens with the disciple, doesn't it? That my disciples are made of gold. Let us be. You may call us mud, but call the disciples gold. That's how we are. Just as someone carries a large bundle of coal on their head. It is not useful for eating, and it stains the clothes a lot. All these examples that have been given, one should reduce them a bit. One should sit peacefully in mind and reduce one's own in them. What is in this for us? Which bundle of coal and where does it get stained? And which dust and which sheet and who wore it? Nishkulanand Swami Nishkulanand Swami Disciple of Sahajanand Swami (Swaminarayan Bhagwan) and author of the Bhaktachintamani, as stated in the scripture's own closing colophon at the end of every chapter. Tap to open in glossary → He says the essence, doesn't he? Essence means the essence of the scripture. What does Nishkulanand Swami Nishkulanand Swami Disciple of Sahajanand Swami (Swaminarayan Bhagwan) and author of the Bhaktachintamani, as stated in the scripture's own closing colophon at the end of every chapter. Tap to open in glossary → That this sheet was worn, the one with dust. All that. That so-and-so wore it, and so-and-so wore it. When I went to that wheat threshing floor, I felt a lot of dust. And in millet, it was a lot. Nishkulanand Swami Nishkulanand Swami Disciple of Sahajanand Swami (Swaminarayan Bhagwan) and author of the Bhaktachintamani, as stated in the scripture's own closing colophon at the end of every chapter. Tap to open in glossary → These examples given, where do they apply to us? Then they are useful. Otherwise, they are not useful. How should we reduce them, as sadhus? To be reduced in others. Where should this be explained with an example, to whom, and when? That's what we have to do, isn't it? So, that's our job. Those poor people get confused when very difficult examples come, thinking, 'Oh, this all came upon us'. And it never comes upon us, it never comes upon a sadhu. Just as someone carries a large bundle of coal on their head. It is not useful for eating, and it stains the clothes a lot. If you put it down, it might get dirty. Both virtues and vices are burdens. One carries misunderstanding and truly makes it worse. One carries misunderstanding and truly makes it worse. Just as one has to swim in deep water, and there are large diamonds and stones on one's head. Similarly, the virtues and vices of the world are truly a loss. A devotee should repeatedly ponder in their heart. Do not cling to poisonous snakes and scorpions, they are givers of sorrow. Whatever this jiva clings to, it becomes difficult to detach from it when it bites. Nishkulanand says that the troubles of this world cling without being attached. True saintly persons renounce body-consciousness. And by cultivating pure soul-consciousness, they remain firmly surrendered to God. Apart from that, others, remaining in body-consciousness, struggle a lot to attain worldly pleasures. In reality, one has nothing of their own, but due to body-consciousness, many get troubled by saying 'mine' and 'yours'. Due to one's own lack of understanding, one has to suffer unnecessary troubles. Just as a blacksmith's anvil has to endure heat and hammer blows due to other iron pieces, similarly, one has to suffer. Just as a good garment, when millet and sorghum are threshed, a kind of dust flies from it and sticks to the clothes. Then, whoever wears or drapes that cloth, it causes a lot of itching. 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