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Generally, it is spoken for all, but understood individually. When you read the Bible, the Bhagavad Gītā, or any holy book, you read it and feel: "Yes, this is within me. This is what I need." We all have our mistakes, weaknesses, problems, and life situations that irritate us. We must solve them. If not outwardly, then silently. Know that we work not loudly, but silently, and this is done in satsaṅg. Mahāprabhujī said in his bhajan that my Gurudeva gave me the hint. Thus, the lecture, the preachings, the words in satsaṅg are a hint for us to awaken inwardly and then seek the solution. That loosening is already given in satsaṅg. Therefore, we can never have enough of satsaṅg. You do not know what you will receive today. Do not think every day is the same—it is not. We may go ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times, and then suddenly we will receive that Vākya, that word for which we have been searching for lives upon lives. Consider an artist. They must practice every day. How many times must they fall down? Yet they practice and practice and practice. Thousands of times they practice, just to reach one day that point, to attain the degree of world master, of champion. They must start again, practice, and repeat many times until they reach the point of becoming world champion. Such great artists and athletes practice daily, repeat their exercises, and endure ups and downs until they become champions. It is the same with the words of satsaṅg. The same sentences you have heard a thousand times may, this time, be the arrow that pierces through and through. There is a story. In a country like India, there was an elderly couple who were poor. They went into the forest to collect wood to bring home for cooking fuel. Both carried a little wood on their heads. Śiva and Pārvatī were also in that forest. Pārvatī asked Śiva, "Why are they so poor? There are many people who gamble all night and do terrible things, yet you have given them so much money. Then they are your bhaktas." Śiva said, "If they get money, they will lose their bhakti. Therefore, it is good as they are. They are happy and satisfied. They have no blood pressure, no diabetes, no cancer, no backache; they are perfectly healthy. Why do you worry?" Pārvatī was angry. You know the nature of ladies. The woman is the heart of the mother. Women are the symbol of protection, kindness, mercy, and the mother. This is Śakti. Since Kali Yuga entered this world, women began to be neglected. Equal rights were lost, and all suffering began. Therefore, the ṛṣis said there must be "Śakti Pūjā." But those women should possess that quality. They lost the quality, and we lost the devotion. Otherwise, yā devī sarva-bhūteṣu lakṣmī-rūpeṇa saṃsthitā, namastasyai, namastasyai... Namodama. Great. So Pārvatī said, "No, no, Śiva. You cannot escape my questions. They are poor. They have no children, no money. They are already above 80 years old and still must carry wood from the forest for cooking. Can you not give them something, gold or the like? They will be your bhaktas. They are your bhaktas. Please, give to them." So Śiva said, "Alright. You stay here behind the bush, and I will do something. You listen and observe what happens." As the couple walked through the forest, Śiva placed about five or ten kilograms of golden coins on their path so they would find them and become rich. When they were about fifty meters away, the elderly lady asked her husband, "Dear one, how do all blind people walk? What do you think? How will it be for us one day when we become blind and cannot see anymore? How difficult will it be to walk?" He said, "Good question, my dear. We must practice now." So they tied cloths over their eyes and became blind. The husband held his stick and said, "But we can sing the name of Śiva, why not?" Om Namah Śivāya, Om Namah Śivāya. They walked like this, came near the gold, and nearly fell over it. Both became very angry and said terrible words: "Who was this stupid, crazy one? He didn't use what is between his two ears! Does he know that poor, blind people walk here? To put such stones on the way is a sin! Stupid man or woman!" Pārvatī was biting her finger with every word she heard. Śiva came near to her. She was ashamed and could not look into his eyes that her bhaktas had uttered such bad words. So, this Buddhi is your old wife, and Viveka is your old husband. This world is the forest. You are carrying your karmas, and the Master Lord Śiva and bhakti are there. But Buddhi becomes blind through dry intellect. Intellect without Jñāna cannot bring Mokṣa. Jñāna has two eyes: Bhakti and Vairāgya. When Buddhi becomes blind, Viveka also becomes blind. Then you do not go to satsaṅg, and you miss the heap of gold. Every day they walked the same path for many years, knowing it by heart. There was never gold on the path. And just today, when there was gold, they closed their eyes. So, just on that day, something is there for you, and you are not in satsaṅg. You have missed a great thing. You have missed a life, Janman janamkā avasar calā gayā—the life's chance you had, you have lost it. It was just one chance, the reason you were born and began your spiritual path. That day, you were simply not in satsaṅg. Holy Gurujī's bhajan says this. You were told to go, but you did not go to satsaṅg. Or you are in the satsaṅg, but you are like that blind man searching for the door, hand on the wall. And when the door begins to creak open—when that particular word comes—you go to drink tea in the kitchen. Always be ever ready.