O’ Lord ! O’ My Lord ! May I never forget You !

Answer -We have got advantage by ‘satsang’ good company. I give more importance to the ‘satsang’ good company than to the spiritual discipline. I have gained specially by reading the sacred books and by having the good company. I think that if others also try to understand the subjects of the ‘satsang’ good company seriously and deeply, they can gain much.

The other special point in this connection is that you will not have to spend so many years as I have spent. I am saying so because you feel it difficult. If you give importance to the association of the good and meditate over the discourses, I clearly see that you can progress in no time.

I don't think that you are not deserving. You may have some short-comings, but you also possess full power to remove them. According to me you only lack the desire to know this subject. If the desire is awakened, even the greatest sinner, and the greatest fool will attain God-Realization. Kindly give up the desire from your heart to have worldly enjoyments. Kabiraji says that the mind is one, you can apply it either to the devotion of God or to sensual enjoyments.

Wipe out the desire for accumulation and worldly enjoyments and see that the desire for God-Realization develops automatically. One desire is to accumulate more and more money. The second is to have worldly pleasures, luxuries, respect, praise, health and position. By giving up these two desires, you will automatically have the desire for God-Realization. You say that you do not have a keen desire. The reason is that you have not so much of renunciation as you should have. Actually there is no renunciation in the mind. What is renunciation? In the Gita at several spots there is mention of renouncing the desires. What is a desire? The desire means that it should be and it should not be. If you renounce it, you will gain a lot. The Gita declares that the man who renounces the desires is a 'Sthitapragya' (stable-mind) viz., the person who has attained God.

Think a bit that a man can't gain anything but disgrace by having a desire. The body and the family are not brought up only by having a desire. Money does not depend only on desires. These things are acquired by fortunes and actions. There is a great affinity between them, but there is no affinity at all between the objects and the desire.

Now kindly try to understand the point. The objects have no affinity with the desire. Can you say that you are poor because you have not desired to be rich? If you had a desire you would have become rich. Therefore, do you not feel that the objects have no relationship with desires? The objects have relationship with actions because actions and objects both are worldly things. Both are the same in essence. The objects are connected with the actions whether they are of the past or the present. The actions of the past are called fortune and the actions of the present are called labour. Therefore, both fortune and labour are actions. The objects are acquired by actions not by desire.

All of you may have a desire for an hour that his family should be brought up without giving him a single pie, and without doing any labour, will the family be brought up merely by desire? Not at all. Therefore things and objects can't be acquired by having a desire. Only God-Realization can be attained by having a desire. If you have a keen desire for God-Realization, you will attain the essence.

Answer:--We have no real affinity with objects, we are different from them in time and distance. Therefore, they will be acquired by actions. But there is no difference of time and distance between God and us. So He is attained merely by having a desire. He is at no distance from things and men. He pervades at the place from where you say 'I' and always permeates everywhere. Time and distance are also within Him. He is omnipresent. As soon as there is a keen desire, He appears. The money, unlike God, does not pervade everywhere. It will have to be produced by actions. Therefore, things and objects are acquired by actions, while God is neither to be produced and created nor is there any change to be brought about in Him. He exists everywhere all the time. Therefore, He is attained not by actions but only by desire, while no worldly thing can be acquired only by having a desire.

Actually God is already attained. When I say that you should have a desire for God-Realization, it means that its purpose is to wipe out the worldly desire; otherwise no desire is needed for God-Realization. He is the same everywhere, ever attained. But He can't be experienced because the human beings have the worldly desires but no desire for Him. Therefore it is necessary to have the desire for God-Realization in order to root out the worldly desires.

As far as the acquisition of the worldly things is concerned, three factors are responsible-desire, labour and fortune. If you have all the three, then and then only you can acquire a thing. You can say that there is a big family, you can't even live from hand to mouth, how can you live without a desire? The answer is that you can get nothing by merely having a desire. Have a desire to work; don't remain idle. Don’t work with dishonesty, quackery and cheating. Work with justice. Don't give importance to money from your heart.

Give up greediness and the desire for accumulation and you will have a new fortune viz., you will gain what was not in your fortune. Have a firm determination that you will not commit sins such as injustice, falsehood, fraud and forgery even though you may die. Death will make no difference because once you have to die. If you die by committing falsehood, fraud and dishonesty, you will take a bundle of sins with you. What is the harm, if you die quickly without the burden of sins? Don't accumulate sins. If you can't earn money without committing a sin, it is better to die of hunger. It will not pave the way to hells, otherwise you can't escape from the hells. Even Brahmaji, the creator of the world, can't save you.

You are the persons who keep good company and understand everything. Try to understand what I say. Have a desire to do your duty and don't be idle. Now pay attention to the four important factors which I generally say:

(1) Make the best possible use of your time. Neither be idle nor waste your time in futile activities such as playing cards, caupada (a game like back gammon which is played with three long dices), plays, shows, movies and smoking etc. These activities are the 'Tamas' constituents (darkness attribute) which pave the way to hell.

Don't waste your time on such trifles. Be always busy with such activities as are useful in earning a livelihood, in attaining God-Realization, in maintaining health and in the welfare of the world.

(2) Do the work to the best of your ability and capacity so that you may get satisfaction and others say that you do well. Whatever activity-dreading, writing, sale, purchase, accountancy etc, you do, do it properly and elegantly. The mothers and sisters should cook food and serve it very well, though the stuff may be very simple. Try to give satisfaction and comfort to all with your activities.

(3) Be aware that you don't have any claim on other’s things. though you may lose your claim on your own things.

(4) Spend the least amount of money for your personal life. Spend for the bare necessities of life, such as food and clothes! Don't spend on luxuries and fashions. If you do like this, you can't be at a loss.

Sometimes people say that they have no job and are sitting idle. This point is baseless and futile. Why do you sit idle? Practise constant remembrance, loud chanting and study the sacred books such as the Gita and the Ramayana. Be busy with work, such as, sweeping, cleaning utensils, shoes, drains, urinals and toilets. Go on doing some work or the other. If you want you can get a lot of work done. By doing this sort of service the innersense will be purified. Don't waste your time. The time of the human body is not to be wasted. The oil in the mill owner’s house is not to wash feet, but to use it properly.

God has bestowed upon us the human body and discretion which has been given to make use of the time rather than to waste it in loitering aimlessly, visiting movies and playing games such as cards, and caupada (a game like back gammon). Its time is to be used in the best of pursuits. It is a great loss to waste that time. You can earn money again. If a young son dies, the small boy can grow young or the mother can give birth to another child, but the time once wasted can't be brought back. It is wasted forever. You spend the money very carefully, but you waste the time without any purpose. Is it wise?

You spend your time in watching aeroplane. What is the use of such activity ? Think what have you gained, whether it has improved the health or the society or whether you have earned money or attained God-Realization. Why do you waste your time, the priceless possession granted to you? Be aware. If you don't waste time, but make the best possible use of it, you will surely make worldly and spiritual progress. I have no doubt, that you will gain in any sphere you go. Even if an atheist makes use of his time, he will progress according to his resolution and action. If a believer makes proper use of the time, he can attain God Realization. There is need to be careful, don‘t waste time in carelessness and negligence.

Don't have any claim on other's things. The body which is called mine or even 'I‘ is different from you. Therefore, to get comfort from it means to take the right of the world. Therefore, don't get comfort from it. Similarly your wife is different from you. Fulfil the right of your wife. Don't snatch her right. Similarly bring up and educate your son to the best of your capacity and perform the duty of a father. Serve your parents and perform your duty to your wife, don't snatch anybody's right whether he is a neighbour or the businessman with whom you have dealings. Have true and honest dealings. In spite of doing all this, you will not get out of debt. But if you don't expect anything from them, you will not run into new debt. After being careful you will come to know how you are having claim on other's objects and things. Now you don’t know.

If I ask you, you will say that you don't have claim on the things of others and you don't commit sin. Several people have met me and told me, ’What is the need for worship? One who commits a sin should worship God; we don't commit any sin. Then what is the need of worship?’ They don't know what sin is and what injustice is. I

The precaution is that you should follow the principles which you have heard throughout your life without any negligence. Similarly pay attention to what I say. I say that the acquisition of money and objects does not depend on desire but on actions. There is a great need to understand this point.

You may say ‘How can we continue our routine without desires and worries? We have to do business and several other activities and, therefore, we have to worry.’ Why have you to worry? Worry is merely a folly. What is the use of worrying? Only energy will be wasted. It is proper to act and serve. But it is quite futile to worry.

Question:- Great Sire, we don't want to worry but we are spontaneously worried. What to do?

Answer:- If it is spontaneous, give it up and do actions. Worry spoils the intellect. Think over the problem coolly. It develops your intellect. Thinking is different from worry.

You should think over different topics, how to work, how to bring up the family, how to have dealings and loving relationship with all the people. It develops your intellect. The action which is done without thinking over the ability is called ‘Tamas' (darkness attribute).

By having worry that you have a big family but no income, the intellect does not function properly and the result is that you can’t work properly. Therefore be careful. Think over the problems seriously but don't worry at all. Make efforts and work hard. Don’t be idle. Study the books. Think over the problems and discuss them. Listen to the benedictory discourses, put them into practice and develop your life. If there are obstacles on the way, remove them and make efforts again. This be benefited of ‘satsang’ (good company). God Realization can be attained by satsang (good company) very quickly and easily. The importance of satsang (good company) is beyond description.