krsna Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 Devotee: How can someone develop simplicity? Gour Govinda Swami: Associate with a simple sadhu. As I described my guru-maharaja, how he came and inculcated faith. And why are you lacking faith now? Because you are not associating with sadhus! You say, "We cannot see sadhu. There are no sadhus present now." That's the whole trouble with you. Devotee: But if we are duplicitous in the heart, then we will be blind and we won't be able to see who is a sadhu. So how can we associate with sadhus if we don't know who is a sadhu? Gour Govinda Swami: Therefore I say, even if sadhu comes, because you are blind you have no faith in him. You want to be the seer, so you cannot get any benefit. You cannot associate. If a sadhu comes and chants here, speaks krsna-katha, it will never enter your ear. You cannot get any benefit. You don't do sadhu-sanga at all. Although you come and sit here, you are just posing, you are just pretending. You are such a pretender! Because you have no faith, the sadhu's katha will never enter your ear. Thus, you cannot get any benefit. Just pretending. Sitting for ten or fifteen minutes, then getting up and going out. Why is this? Because you have no faith. You are not simple. You want to be the seer. But you are not the seer. That's the whole trouble. Devotee: To have this simplicity and faith one should think as a child. If we have some intelligence that if we get this or that. . . . Gour Govinda Swami: What intelligence do you have? It's impure intelligence, not pure intelligence. Devotee: So I should just give it up? Gour Govinda Swami: Yes! Give up everything! Just throw it out! Throw it out! Make your heart clean and open. Jesus Christ said, "Empty thyself. I will fill thee." But you are not emptying. Your heart is full to the brim with crookedness, duplicity, and enviousness - all nasty things. How can he fill you? There is no space. Empty yourself. Throw it out! Then you will get. · -- From an evening program in Lansing, Michigan, USA, 28 October 1991 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 9, 2004 Report Share Posted July 9, 2004 Gour Govinda Swami: Therefore I say, even if sadhu comes, because you are blind you have no faith in him. You want to be the seer, so you cannot get any benefit. You cannot associate. If a sadhu comes and chants here, speaks krsna-katha, it will never enter your ear. You cannot get any benefit. You don't do sadhu-sanga at all. Although you come and sit here, you are just posing, you are just pretending. You are such a pretender! Because you have no faith, the sadhu's katha will never enter your ear. Thus, you cannot get any benefit. Just pretending. Sitting for ten or fifteen minutes, then getting up and going out. Why is this? Because you have no faith. You are not simple. You want to be the seer. But you are not the seer. That's the whole trouble. Sounds as if His Grace didn't want to play the guru game at the expense of dispensing truth. Speaking such straightforward truth is what we all should aspire to find in a saint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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