A very good question has been asked that 'Father, there are many bad people among us. We have been listening to Rama Katha for years, yet our conduct is not right. Tell us something to comfort us. There is a verse in 'Bhagavad Gita' – api chetsuduracharo bhajate mamananyabhak, sadhureva sa mantvayah samyagvyavasito hi sah. 'Bhagavad Gita' says why there is no evil in evil, but the one who worships me with a unique spirit is a sadhu. It does not mean that we are allowed to misbehave. We should not take the meaning that 'Bhagavad Gita' calls us sadhus even after doing misdeeds. If the wrongdoer's direction is right and he does not worship me in any way, then he is like a monk. In what sense will we understand it? You say that our evils do not go away; We are very bad. You admit but your pace is towards the pulpit. I will never tell you to skip the booze and listen to the story. Listen with a bottle of wine, but you come to the pulpit. Many people tell me across the board that we are like that. But come to the story! Speed is in the story! Let me say once again that Krishna does not allow wrongdoing. I am not giving you permission to drink, yet you are drinking; Being jealous, slandering, hating; You are not seeing anyone's exaltation; Repeated lying; Even if you have all this, you will come to Bhagavad Katha! To me it is glorious. Who doesn't have blacks? If the speaker speaks, then there are no evils in it? It is not like if the listener hears, there is evil in him and not in the speaker. In addition to Panchatattva, the sixth Tattva is weakness. Tulsidasji has slapped the speakers in 'Ramcharitmanas'! Tulsi says that such speakers who are liars in mind, word and deed will come a lot in Kali Yuga. All have flaws. Narrator will also have flaws. I want to make you absolutely dependent. I welcome this questioner. Come with all the evils but come into the story. Bring dirty clothes, I will try to wash them. Keep life open. Being a sadhu means doing tilak, keeping garlands, not only that. We called Surdas a sadhu. He said 'mo sam kaun kutil khal kami'. Shankaracharya says – Matsama: pataki nasti papaghni tvatsama na hi. Such knowledge is Mahadevi Yathayogya and Kuru. My Goswamiji himself has said after realization, 'Mo sam din na din hit.' This is a confession. So your speed is towards the story itself. Katha is a pregnancy of nine days, not nine months. Don't know, how many new consciousnesses are born in it! Who will count? The story is an intimate dialogue of nine days. A doctor will say that I will cure you only if you leave the disease and come to my hospital! The doctor wants me to have a patient. My pulpit wants the patient to come to my pulpit with his burdens, as a listener. Mari Ramkatha is a mobile hospital. Nine days will sit here, nine days will sit there and all will come. We have heard so many stories, but still the bad things are not gone, don't make yourself sad. It does not mean that we embrace evil. But if it is done, go to the river; If you are thirsty, go to the lake; If you are hungry, go where the annakshetra is open, where prasad is given with respect. There are vices in all. Who doesn't have blackheads? Tulsidasji has written, this whole creation is good and bad. 'Jadchetan Gundosh Mayan.' It is said that ornaments are not made of pure gold; If it does, it breaks as soon as it falls. Another metal has to be obtained in it. There are merits and demerits. Whatever you are, come to the story. There is no condition of the story. So listen to the story, sing the story. This is the final message of Tulsi. And I don't mean just listen to the story. Go where there is good company, where there is good seating, where there is good discussion about our lives. Listen to the story with your heart, it means you will be entertained in between. How the pulpit amuses me and you! Tulsi says, 'Sakal Jan Rajni.' Colors everyone's mind. If you listen to the story from the level of the mind, whatever the mind, the story will entertain. If you listen to the story with intelligence, it will give you rest. Narrative gives rest to intellectuals, gives experience, compels one to think. Sitting quietly, he gets involved in the interpretation of the story. If you listen to the story with mind, enlightenment will be revealed. Tulsi forbids that you should not listen with pride, but I allow you to listen with pride. Sometimes the story will release the pride. Our ego torments us. If you listen with your heart, Ranjan; If you listen with intelligence, rest; If you listen with mind, even if you listen with enlightenment and pride, there is no need to worry, sometimes it will be beneficial.} (Compilation : Nitin Vadgama)
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