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I was thinking of this while walking uphill in the snow, counting something. Can you tell me what I was counting? Tell someone. Stairs? No. I was counting the drops of sweat. That's it. I was counting the drops of sweat and thinking of you. That is what I wanted to tell you this time. That is one thing. Second, I have a beautiful story. This afternoon, I was thinking of Gurujī. I asked him, "What should I tell you this evening?" So Gurujī told me, "Tell them this story and its meaning." This story was told by Gurujī in his satsaṅg long ago, before I came to Europe, which means before 1970. Gurujī told this story in 1966. Sometimes the Master is very hard, you know. He said, "On July 3rd, 1966, at 11 o'clock in the evening, I told her a story in the satsaṅg. You were there, so you can tell this story." And my memory is getting old, that's all. He told me: in 1966, on the 3rd of July, at 11 o'clock in the evening, in the satsaṅg in Mumbai. And I told him, "You can tell a nice story today about the Bhaktas." I am happy, I'm glad you don't have such a master. The story is about someone who is very jealous. Of course, that's not your subject. You are not jealous, so perhaps this story has no meaning for you. And if some of you are jealous, then this story is for you. But I am not telling this purposely towards someone. This was in the afternoon, around 4:15. I was having my tea, and I looked to the Holy Gurujī, and I asked him what to do. I thought he would tell me something easy. I didn't think that he would have an examination for me today, a test. If I had known this, I would not have asked him. That's it. Always, when I ask Gurujī, it's like, "This and this, can we do?" And the answer was, "You know what to do." So sometimes I was angry, but I learned this. I tell you also: you know what to do. That's all. And when I said, "Yes, but I want to know your opinion. One day you will not tell me that I didn't ask you. And if something goes wrong, then I will be guilty alone." Again, you know, Gurujī was very relaxed. And Gurujī was again relaxed, doing his mālā. Ninety-eight percent of my time with Holy Gurujī, whenever I saw him, he was holding his mālā in the name of Mahāprabhujī. So you can say that, yes, his consciousness was enlightened consciousness. That name of God was with him. What I said: one without second. So when I asked, "Yes, thank you for your blessing that you said that I know, but still I would like to know, what should I do, or should we do, or not?" Then, with a very gentle smile—you could hardly see that he was really smiling—all his lips were moving, sometimes like that when you have some candy in your mouth. And Gurujī was looking very gently at his mālā. And he said, "I have given you all the duties. Now I am retired. Go and do what you want. I am retired. I give you everything." So, you see, it's not easy to understand the hint of the Master. Once I said, "No, but I want to know, please tell me." I was never like this to him. If I were to say, "I want to know," then it would take hardly five seconds till I came out of his room. So, to understand the Master, I must tell you, the love, the understanding, the greatness, and a kind of respect which I received from Gurujī, I never received anywhere. So today again he said... It was very hard work for me to remember so many years, 40 years now. Can you remember? Imagine, nearly 40 years. Yes, there are stories like this. That's it, what I wanted to tell you. I told you. Buddha. So the story is about a jealous person. A jealous person, a greedy person. What kind of karmas can cause more, and what kind of distraction can cause? So he was always jealous of his neighbor. And he always wished that his neighbor would act towards him as if he were a slave. He should be poor. He should always come to me to have something. He should greet me before I greet him. But unfortunately, apparently, it was not like that. The neighbor was rich. The neighbor bought a car, and he did not even have a bike. The neighbor bought a beautiful color television. He had not even a small mirror to see his face, so someone told him, "It's only money that can make you great. Earn the money." So now his concentration was on how to get money. So, working hard, working hard, but he had an expenditure of fifty dollars per day and the earning was only seventeen dollars per day. How to become rich? Expenditure is more than the income. Someone like Chidānand suggested to him how to become rich. Only God can do it. Only God can make you rich, no one else. So he went to the forest and was praying and praying for what? Money? Well... It doesn't matter for what you pray; if you are disciplined and you are really praying from the heart, then definitely God will come. So the voice came, "My son, I am happy with you. I bless you. What do you wish?" He said, "Well, if you are God, then don't ask me what I wish. You know what I wish." And that's why I ask many of you, what do you wish? Gurujī, you know what I wish. So when I asked Gurujī, he said, "You know what you want to do." When I asked you, you said, "You know what you will do." My position is very hard. So when I ask Gurujī, "What should we do?" he says, "You know." So he said, "God, give me, please, something so that I become rich." So God said, "Okay. I give you one kāñc. A kāñc. Take it home. Anything you need, you make pūjā to this kuṇḍ and ask him. He will give you everything, whatever you want: dress suits, shampoo for coloring hair, shampoo, eating, car. Money, anything, and how much you want. Are you happy?" "Yes, Lord, you want something more?" "That's all, Lord." So God said, "Now your sadness is finished." He said, "Thank you, Lord." Now he's thinking, "Immediately I come home, and I will make my neighbor as my slave," because he only wanted to make his neighbor as a slave, and he's jealous of the neighbor. But God knows what he's blessing before dematerializing. God said, "Yes, my son, there is some special quality this coin has." "Yes, my lord. What is that?" "That is this. If you ask this kuṇḍ for one million dollars, he will give you immediately. But at the same time, your neighbor will get two million, so always he will have double. Hari Om, bye bye." Now he was so angry. He was so angry at God. "So many years I was doing tapasyā. All my sādhanā went in vain. But I tell you, Lord, I don't depend on you. With my own hands, I will work and earn the money, but my neighbor, I will push him down." And he took this and came home, and he told his wife everything, and he said, "Don't utilize it. Just throw it under the bed somewhere in the dust. I'm going somewhere to work in other countries, and I will earn a lot of money." So he went away. Now, 15 years, he didn't come and didn't send money at all. He was working, carrying heavy things from one shop to another with hand lorries, and sleeping in the street. He tried to save the money. Now at home, the children and wife were hungry. Nothing to eat, so the wife told her eldest son, who was about 20 years old, the story about the kuṇḍ. Then he said, "Mommy, Mother, we are hungry. We are five members in our house, and for the last three days, we didn't eat anything. If this gives us the eating, the neighbor will get double. Why not?" She agreed. So they found the śaṅkha, these kuṇḍs, and cleaned them nicely, and then made pūjā. With ghee lamps and incense and prayers, and said, "Please supply us ready-made food." Since that time, this ready-made food is taken away, you know. So, all ready-made drinking and pizza and samosas and halva and whatever you, soup and this, everything, with the plates and spoons and cups and coffee and tea and cakes and everything. And within no time, to their surprise, there was hot food already on the table. Like you take something from out of the oven, and they were hungry for three days, didn't eat. The mother and the other four kids were so happy, and they thanked God and began to eat. But what happened? In the neighbor's house, food came for ten people. The neighbor was sitting with his wife there on the swing. And suddenly, there's a hard food lying there. And his wife said, "Why do you see this?" He said, "Do you see what I see?" It smells good, so they also ate. After eating, the family of the jealous man asked for beautiful dresses. And ready-made, beautiful dresses for everyone came. Packed in suitcases, the suitcases were falling down there, and the neighbor's house was falling. Ten suitcases. The neighbor was thinking, "My God, there must be some black magic." They were frightened. Then, you know, desires have no end, and that's why Gandhījī said, "That's enough for... Everyone's needs, but not for the greed." Now they want to have beautiful furniture, a beautiful house, a car, car... car. The neighbor got two cars. Whatever they asked, the neighbor got double. And the children said, "Why not? If they are happy, we are also happy." So they are writing a letter to the father. "Dear Father, it has been a long time since we heard from you. We hope you are healthy and well. We are also very happy and healthy, and especially we want to tell you that now you don't need to work anymore. We have everything and are very rich by the blessing of the Saṅkadev, the Kuṇḍ." And when he read this letter, jealousy came out. He didn't see his son in this letter, nor his wife or his other children. Nor does he see that they are happy, but he saw the neighbor. "He must be enjoying life on behalf of my tapasyā, and I told my stupid wife, 'It doesn't matter what happens, don't utilize this kuṇḍ.'" So he tried to come back to his country, and he couldn't sleep and couldn't eat. "My God, my neighbor will be very happy, and when I come, I have to greet him, to say to him, 'Hello, sir,' but he should know that I will ruin his life." When he came near the house, hardly he could recognize that it's his house. There was a little hut, and now it's a big villa, and he sees the right side, exactly the same model, but two villas. His blood was boiling, the good cells were dying, and he decided, "When I will enter my house, the first thing I will do is to beat my wife, give her slaps, stupid one. Why is she using this?" He went in. Luckily, the boys were standing first. He didn't see these boys for 15 years. There were no photos or cameras, so these boys were very strong, and they hugged the father, and the wife also said hello, but he didn't look at her. He said, "You spoiled everything. You ruined my life. Where is my kuṇḍ?" I said, "Here it is." Then he made mantra. On the mantra making, mantra singing, wrong. Instead of saying, "Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu," and she sang, "Dave, one of my legs should disappear." Can you imagine? What happened to the neighbor? What happened to the neighbor? Both legs disappeared. When my arm disappeared, both his arms disappeared. When my eyes disappeared, on the record, his neighbor lost both eyes. In this way, he completely destroyed the neighbor. And then he said, "In front of my house, there should be a very deep water well, a thousand meters deep." And so, in the neighbor's door, in front of the door, were two wells. He threw this kuṇḍ into the water well and went for begging. He became a beggar; he destroyed everything. So this is how a jealous person can cause troubles to others and to oneself. And so there are still that man existing in many people, but that's all. We have to get rid of that person which is existing and living in us without our will, without our wish, and that is jealousy. And that jealousy can do all terrible things. And if we do this, then we are not a yogī at all. How many āsanas you will perform is meaningless. How many kriyās you will do, Haṭha Yoga kriyās and Rāja Yoga kriyās, meaningless. So just simply be good, that's all. To become a yogī, simply be good, that's all. Merciful, kind, helpful, then your spirituality is on the top. Therefore, yoga in daily life is a system. It has a background, a solid foundation, and it has a bright future. And it has the science of body, mind, consciousness, and soul. So, inspire your people and help them to overcome their weaknesses. To overcome this devil which is sitting with us, to get rid of the devil, so when you have good thoughts, good feelings, and good acting, God is doing in you, and when you have negative, then the devil is with you. And you know where your soul will go if the devil is there. And where will your soul go if God is there? So, without knowing reality, who are we to blame someone? So there is God. There is salvation. And there is the Bhakta, and definitely you will get it if you follow these instructions. Nipman Bhagavān Kī Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kī