TV Channel

But it’s a good atmosphere there. They’re always laughing and smiling and dancing and clapping. And there are interesting-looking white-painted brown guys there also—bíle pomalovaný. So, I’m going to go for satsaṅg there. Do you want to join me? The other friend said, "Hmm, let me think about it." Then he said, "You know what, I would love to, but in the cinema is the last show of this movie, which is going to disappear from the theaters tomorrow." He said, "Okay, you go there, I go here, and we meet after at this and this time. When the bell rings, we meet at the Tilak." Agreed. So then one friend came for satsaṅg here. But he was sitting here, he was physically present here, but mentally he was somewhere else. He said, Avatarpurī is here for one and a half months. I could have come to listen to him some other day. But the movie, it was the last show, I missed it. Avatārpuri always says, Guru Bhakti is everlasting, kṛpā is always there, so I can be in the movie and I still get kṛpā. Viśvagurujī is in my heart, doesn’t matter if I’m in the movie or doesn’t matter if I’m here, no? The other friend thought, "Hmm, it was a boring movie. I wish I would be there in Strilky. Maybe I would a little bit dance and have a bonfire and get some chocolates." Okay, so finally the movie finished. The satsaṅg finished. Satsaṅg ended, and they were walking towards Tilak. The person who went for satsaṅg, while walking to Tilak, he got a thorn in his foot. And the other friend who went for the movie, he found a gold coin. And when they both reached, one was smiling and one was upset. "You know what happened to me? I went to satsaṅg and I was coming back, and I got a thorn in my foot, and it’s still hurting." And the other person started laughing at him. He said, "I went to the movie, and still, when I came back, I found a gold coin." Then they said, "We have to go again to Strilky, and Gurudev will tell us what is the solution of this, or why did this happen." Then they came back and, yes, Gurujī, what’s going on? I came for satsaṅg and I got a thorn, and he went for kusaṅg and he got a gold coin. Gurujī said he was supposed to be in satsaṅg. If he would come to satsaṅg—no, sorry—the friend who came to satsaṅg, he was in satsaṅg, but his awareness was not here. His awareness was in that movie. But only because momentarily he was, or at least physically he was present in the satsaṅg, the result of that was instead of completely getting crashed by a car, he only got a thorn in his foot. And the other friend, he was in the movies, but somewhat of awareness was in satsaṅg. His consciousness went to the satsaṅg for a while. He was supposed to get a whole box of gold coins, but because he didn’t go to satsaṅg and he only was for a moment in satsaṅg, for that moment, the reward was one gold coin. If he would go to satsaṅg, he would get the whole box. That is the power of bhakti, that is the power of satsaṅg, and that is the power of Gurudeva. The power to make the king a beggar, or a beggar a king. But it is all in our consciousness. It all depends on the awareness and how we go forward with our lives. And how do we live our lives?