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This evening, I will speak briefly about bhāva. What is bhāva? It has many meanings. Bhāva means devotion. Bhāva means love. Bhāva means emotion. Bhāva means values. And bhāva means your inner feelings. Bhāva means your inner relationship, that which you hold in the highest esteem. If there is no bhāva, nothing happens. I often give this example in satsaṅg. Let's say there is gold, and one kilo of gold costs a thousand dollars. Tomorrow, the price—the bhāva of gold—will rise. Tomorrow, the price, meaning the bhāva of gold, will increase. It means tomorrow gold becomes ten thousand dollars per kilo. Let's say tomorrow a kilo of gold will cost ten thousand dollars. Now you have gained nine thousand dollars. The metal itself didn't increase even half a gram. It is exactly only a thousand grams. But you gain nine thousand dollars. Or, let us say tomorrow the price, the bhāva, will fall down. It will be only one hundred dollars a kilo. You have lost nine hundred dollars. The metal doesn't decrease at all. It is still one kilo. Now, where is the loss or the gain? Our benefit or our loss is in the value, in the price. The gold itself didn't change. So, God, for example, is like gold. And now, how much bhāva you will have towards God—that is your benefit. Or, how much bhāva you will lose if you have doubts and conflicts and jealousy and such things—then you will lose it. Therefore, it is the same thing between master and disciple. As you learn and read in the Guru Gītā, when you lose your confidence, or you lose your bhakti, your bhāva, then you lose everything. Then you lose your vairāgya, then you lose your motivation, then you lose your sādhanā. You don't do your morning mālā, you don't do your kriyā, you don't do your āsanas, you don't do your prāṇāyāmas, you turn away from your prayers. Yes, you say, "I am a yogi, I am doing yoga, I am Swāmījī's disciple." But you are not practicing. How will it be? Because you lost the bhāva, something happened to you. Either you can't explain it, or you can't understand it, or something has happened. --- Recording location: Slovenia, Ljubljana, Satsang