Ignorance resides in our virtues. It is extremely subtle and cannot be recognized. It has become like one's nature. It has confused many great people. Is there ignorance in virtue? Huh? Is ignorance in vice or in virtue? Where is it? Don't smile faintly, just give answers. Who is smiling faintly? How do I know what they are smiling about? What do you call a Sadguru Sadguru A great sant. Tap to open in glossary → Is ignorance in virtue or in vice? In virtue? What happens in virtue? It can also be in virtue. Yes. So why? Then should one acquire virtues or not? Huh? Should we acquire virtues or not? Huh? One becomes arrogant by acquiring virtues. Then it goes away. Ignorance mostly comes with whom? It comes with virtue. It comes with virtue. It comes with good people. If it comes with weak people, no one respects it. And if it comes with good people, then all our arrangements are made along with it. Accommodation, water, food, everything is arranged. It has confused many great people. The mind's pride of having virtues Ignorance sits within the heart It forcefully causes loss of knowledge. As a poet, it becomes a poet. As a singer, it becomes a singer. As a scholar, it becomes a scholar. No one could understand it. Look, yours came in this. As a poor person, it becomes a poor person. As a generous person, it becomes a generous person. Yogis, ascetics, hermits, renunciants In the form of Varna Varna A caste of the ancient Indian social system: brãhman, kshatriya, vaishya, and sudra. Tap to open in glossary → Has it left anyone out? No one is left out. So, will there be ignorance in us or not? Huh? What does it say? What does Vishuddha Swami say? Is there ignorance in us? Yes. How can there be darkness in our house? So much electricity and solar panels in the house. And is it dark? Your solar is working? Still dark. If it's government electricity, it might go out sometimes, but the house's solar light doesn't go out, does it? It says here that it forcefully causes loss of knowledge. Knowledge means loss, minus. Even if we don't want it, it comes and sits forcefully. Forcefully causing loss of knowledge means loss. Who desires ignorance to come into them? But it still comes forcefully. As a king, it becomes a king. As a wealthy person, it becomes a wealthy person. Among high and low, men and women, Wherever there is such pride. In oneself and others, in moving and non-moving beings, Ignorance resides in everyone's heart. From one's own self, It causes harm while sitting. The virtue that came into oneself, Taking its strength, it speaks a lot. Thus, ignorance has turned The heads of all good people. They forgot the direction of God. They took the support of their own virtues. Nishkulanand says, for such a person, There is a real and utter loss. Swami says that one should consider oneself virtuous. Or considering oneself superior in comparison to other devotees is hidden ignorance. It is said in the scriptures that if you want to compete, compete with yourself. What does it mean to compete with oneself? Did I gain anything more this time compared to the virtues I had and the achievements I made last time? Then it is called competing with oneself. But mostly, no one competes with themselves. They compete with someone else, or with the person next to them. There is one platform. Then, it's not just next door; even if it's America from here, it can be on the same platform many times. So, whoever is on the same platform, People compete with them. And the reason for that competition is considered envy, jealousy, and ego. If one competes with oneself, it is called humility. That is called humility. If one competes with oneself, it means that one wants to achieve more this time than last year. Then, the fact that he considered himself incomplete automatically comes into it. Because only if one considers oneself incomplete, that happens. So, one should compete with oneself. One should not compete with a devotee of God. If one desires to, one should help a devotee of God. Or learn from them. But one should not compete with them. That is its essence. Swami says that one should consider oneself virtuous. Or considering oneself superior in comparison to other devotees is hidden ignorance. That is hidden ignorance. It is such that we cannot recognize it. So, we should examine within ourselves, with whom do I have competition? Then, is he a devotee of God or not? Even if he is not a devotee, if we compete and claim superiority, it is his own loss. That. What about all of us? Let's say we all took the same initiation in this. So, who got more and who got less? If I got less, why did I get less? I am with him. What does one who has no pride have? I am old. I am old. Now there is no cure for that. God created him first, so what can we do? So, that is not in our hands. So, the pride of being old That is the pride of foolishness. There is nothing else. There is no other excuse or evidence for it. So, this is a big evidence. I am old. So, I am a stubborn fool. If one is old, they become stubborn, right? And they become foolish. If I am old, I should have more achievements than everyone else, right? If I am old, I should have more virtues than everyone else, right? Don't listen to anything like that. I am old. So, that is called the foolishness of being old. Whether someone said it or not, it seems that way to us; it appears so when surveyed. And if there are many fools, Then they almost say that in old age, there is more room for foolishness, it's empty, right? So, It's empty. Swami says that considering oneself virtuous or superior in comparison to other devotees is hidden ignorance. That is, can we humble ourselves before someone who is our equal? No, we cannot. We humble ourselves before others. If these devotees are not like sadhus, they will humble themselves before them. But what if there is another such devotee with him? Then he won't humble himself. Why should we bow to him? We, however, What need do we have of him? Take it. What need do we have of him? God has given us everything. Then that is ignorance. I will humble myself. If we are sadhus, what do we say? That, what need do we have of him? What need do we have of devotees? What need do we sadhus have of each other? That is what wisdom is about. One should have a need for God's devotee. If there isn't one, create it. And only when it is created does the refuge last. Even if there isn't one, keep it. Swami says that one should consider oneself virtuous. Or considering oneself superior in comparison to other devotees is hidden ignorance. That is, it is a hidden ignorance that cannot be recognized. It is also extremely subtle. Why is it subtle with nature? Scholars cannot understand it. Even those with very sharp intellect cannot understand it. That there is ignorance in me. Engineers solve all the problems easily. But this one cannot be solved. You can study all the subtle vocal scriptures. Sa Re Ga Ma. But still, this one cannot be solved. One becomes proficient in Bhagavat and Brahmasutra. But one cannot become proficient in this at all. I went through the Tatparya Chandrika of the Gita, but I still can't go through this. That is, it is a hidden ignorance that cannot be recognized. It is also extremely subtle. It has become one with nature. With nature means With virtue. With virtue. It has become one with virtue. It doesn't enjoy becoming one with those vices. If ignorance becomes one with vice, what fun is there? It works in the market. Respect is not gained. This is called ignorance, and respect is also gained. This only happens if it mixes with virtue, otherwise it doesn't. So, ignorance partners with virtue. With anyone. If there is no virtue, suppose someone has no virtue, then with whom does he partner? With the old one. With foolishness. So, if one partners with foolishness, then there is no foolishness, 'all land belongs to God'. There is no such thing as where foolishness should go or not go; it is everywhere. It's very good to live among saints. Because I don't have to work hard, and it keeps coming directly. It comes to foolishness too, it comes to us. If these people give directly, do they give only to me, saying, 'I want to give to you, but not to your foolishness'? It's not like that. This much is for your foolishness, this much is your share. 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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