Greed makes a person violent, cruel, and brutal. It robs the heart of its tenderness, destroying it. No gentleness remains in the heart. Sometimes, one even commits violence or gets it done. Ignorance. Lack of discrimination regarding the supreme and lower truths, and lack of discrimination regarding what should and should not be done. The lack of discrimination regarding the supreme and lower truths is called ignorance. Ignorance in the form of sleep at the appropriate time and knowledge of useless subjects is common to both asuras and others, and is not considered a flaw. To distinguish from that, the term 'supreme and lower' is used. Sleep is considered ignorance. Also, a person has ignorance about subjects that are not necessary. Some overly smart people even have knowledge of that. That ignorance is common among asuras and others. Moreover, it is not even considered a flaw. The absence of that discrimination, which is especially essential for the liberation of the soul, is considered ignorance here. Ignorance is common. It can be present in divine nature and also in demonic nature. Then why is this ignorance shown as a vice only in the demonic nature and not in the divine nature? So, it is not about what is common here. Common ignorance is present in everyone. But one does not know what is necessary. One does not know the glory of God, which should be known. On the contrary, one opposes it even more than ignorance. Instead of understanding the glory, one does not value it at all. So, that is naturally present in demonic nature. They have no value for God's devotee or for God. The absence of that discrimination, which is especially essential for the liberation of the soul, is considered ignorance here. So, not understanding the glory of God's devotee is a characteristic of demonic nature. The meaning of ignorance here is not considered merely a lack of discrimination, but rather, contrary knowledge is ignorance. Knowledge contrary to discrimination, meaning knowledge that leads to activities opposing discrimination, is shown as ignorance here, and it is naturally seen in demonic nature. It creates contempt. The mindset that creates contempt towards God's devotee is called ignorance. In addition, in Satsangi Satsangi A person who practises satsang. Tap to open in glossary → Sadguru Sadguru A great sant. Tap to open in glossary → Three main characteristics are shown in it. First, their causeless opposition to God; second, especially a causeless enmity or oppositional attitude towards God's exclusive devotee; and third, opposing the righteous conduct according to dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → Duryodhana loved his subjects very much. His policy is mentioned in Kirata, right? What? That common people, huh? He considers servants as family members. He considers family members as brothers. He considers brothers as ahead of himself. Such was his policy towards everyone. So, is that considered good or bad? Huh? Good indeed. Good. Good indeed. No, it was good. It was good for the subjects. It was good for the subjects, and it was not in his soul. It was not in Duryodhana's soul. Duryodhana was actually selfish. Pure. Other than himself, he was self-centered. He was ego-centric rather than self-centered. He would not respect anyone else. But still, he was giving it in this way. So, it can be like this in them too. In asuras, sometimes righteous conduct or goodwill is seen in other subjects except for God or His true devotee, In other places, they appear more generous. Except for God's devotee. They appear more generous. Ravana built a golden Lanka, so was only his palace made of gold? Huh? The whole of Lanka was. For all the servants too. So, should he be called generous or greedy? Huh? So, all of your, our brother developers, huh? Developers. No, all your people, the working people, how many facilities do you give them? Although saints are all very generous. Especially in this corona, they have become very generous, haven't they? Like, just give it, no problem. We are a bit greedy. But still, not like Ravana. Not as generous as Ravana. Right? If we were as generous as Ravana, we would have to deliver an Innova car to each of them. Ravana's palace was made of gold, so he made everyone's of gold, so if we use Innova, we should actually give Innova to everyone. But nothing in this corona, we will do it somewhere later. We will have to tell the managers, all of them, that brother, you do something like this. They are a bit generous. Still, they cannot be called like Ravana. Ravana was very generous. Where did he have an issue? With Vibhishana and with Lakshmana. Nothing to them. He had built a golden temple for Vibhishana too. But he found out that he loves Rama, so then he had an issue. Duryodhana did not have an issue with the entire subjects. He only had an issue with the Pandavas. He wanted to make the subjects happy. Make them happy and get votes. Nothing else. They did not let the subjects become as happy as themselves. Just get votes. So, demonic people also sometimes show extreme generosity, but they cannot show it towards God's devotee. They show it towards others. Especially to the person beside God's devotee, they show it a lot. So, the person beside him feels that, oh, this one is a devotee, not that one. These are all the intricacies, so That is why in Satsangi Satsangi A person who practises satsang. Tap to open in glossary → Some action is needed to display opposition, right? So, if one wants to display opposition to God's devotee, one has to be more generous towards others. God's devotee might not be that generous, but if this one shows that much generosity to others, then the other person feels that way. So, in Satsangi Satsangi A person who practises satsang. Tap to open in glossary → Natural opposition to God, and double natural opposition to God's devotee. And secretly digging the roots of dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → In addition, in Satsangi Satsangi A person who practises satsang. Tap to open in glossary → Sadguru Sadguru A great sant. Tap to open in glossary → 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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