The organization is a means of serving God. So, if one wishes to serve while staying in this organization, is that considered a desire? There is no objection to serving the organization. There is no objection if one takes care of it. But if one says, "I will only serve here and not there," "I will only serve in the kitchen and not in the office," Mostly, one has to work according to one's skills. And they assign tasks according to our skills; no one does otherwise. Even if the elders have a little less understanding, they still make the queen's brother a minister. That means the king has less understanding; if only the queen's brother becomes the minister, it shows less understanding. That means, if they are in his favor, he arranges everyone equally, but what if others are not? Then that is not right. But mostly, if we have a skill, and if that skill fits anywhere, we should bind ourselves to the seva, not to the place, position, action, or person. Desire for transient things, people... Many times it happens that one has developed something a lot, and then one has to leave it, then? It feels difficult. Huh? It is difficult. That is why Brahmanand Swami developed the entire temple of Vadtal, and Maharaj said, "Come along with me." So why wouldn't it be difficult? Why did Brahmanand Swami not find it difficult? And nowadays, if everyone has to be relieved of their position as Mahant, why do they have to call the police? Brahmanand Swami would say that he had served with the prior understanding that Maharaj... If it was done for his pleasure, and if he says, "Do it from here to here," then what is the objection? When we call the police, it means they are doing it for the pleasure of the police. So, after calling them, if they say, "Now you walk this way," then it works. If we say it, it doesn't work. So, if it is for pleasure, there is no bondage. If one has developed it oneself, Brahmanand Swami developed it alone, so how did he do it? Maharaj had given twelve rupees, and he developed it from that. He built a magnificent temple, and that too in those days. Nine lakh bricks were laid in the foundation. Baked bricks. So he built such a temple, and it was not even completed yet, and as he was going to hand over the keys, he was told, "Come along." Still, he did not feel bad about it, so? And Govind Swami was conducting 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 Maharaj found it difficult to make him leave it. So that is attachment. It was not that Govind Swami had developed all the 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 → Still, Maharaj found it difficult to make him leave it. And Brahmanand Swami had developed it. Brahmanand Swami had developed that temple, he did Junagadh's, he did Muli's. How magnificent! Maharaj's own work would pale in comparison to his; he built such magnificent temples. Maharaj built Gadhada by supervising it personally, and Brahmanand Swami built at these three places by supervising personally, so how beautiful and outstanding those temples are. But still, just because we do good work, it does not mean it becomes mine. Good work is meant to be surrendered. He developed this and surrendered it. So, still, it cannot be called attachment. Gunatitanand Swami did that with great, great effort, and then in the end, he left from there, leaving it behind, saying, "Go ahead, you use it." He went to the divine abode. Otherwise, if one has to leave it for the last fifteen days, how difficult is that? So, if one has to leave it for fifteen days, he would die in a week. Maharaj assigned the position of Mahant to Aksharanand Swami, so Chaitanyanand Swami got upset and ran away all the way to Dharampur. He got upset and ran away, why? Because they were new. "The seniority is mine, and he assigns it to a junior!" "I am senior." Was there any development of theirs in this Vadtal temple? Or any sacrifice? What was there? They were old. "The seniority is mine." Shastriji Maharaj had assigned Junagadh to Mukund Swami later, and in that case too, it happened that the junior ran away, or rather the senior ran away. "Seniority... we are senior and he is junior..." So they ran away with the whole crowd, with their army. So these are all the thorns of attachment. They affect others too, and they affect oneself as well. One does not become happy; one becomes unhappy, that's all. Brahmanand Swami did not become unhappy. Brahmanand Swami did not become unhappy. On the contrary, he became happy. Maharaj was pleased. Shukanand Swami wrote that draft, and Maharaj said, "Write the draft and bring it." Maharaj was warming himself by the stove, and he said, "Burn it." "Now write another one and bring it." Would anyone write it? Huh? They would write. No one would write. "Now, Maharaj, please get it done by someone else." They would speak politely. But Shukanand Swami was asked, "Do you..." Maharaj asked, "Do you not feel anything?" So what did Shukanand Swami say? "What would happen to me?" "To please you, if you are pleased by burning it, then be pleased by burning it, what else is there?" But to be like that is very difficult. There is no choice but to be like that. If we get attached to this world, does anything else happen? There is no choice but to become like that. If we want to go to Maharaj, if we want to go in this very birth, whenever Maharaj says, "When you become like that, then come." 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