The Spiritual Practice Of Patience And Why Impatience Harms

If you put the seed in the ground.

It will become a tree immediately.

No.

No.

Child is born,

Takes 9-10 months,

Right?

So what can you do?

To make it clear to the patient.

So you have to know this that everything does not give effect immediately.

There are many factors involved.

In case of Bhakti,

It can give result immediately.

Sorry.

Doesn't give because there are obstacles to it.

In case of Bhakti,

It is not like a seed that.

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Going to grow therefore it has to take that much time.

Because it is Nitya Siddha.

So it takes time because we are not qualified.

So then you have to think well I have to purify myself and there is no other way that I'd be patient.

Somebody falls sick,

He is also called patient,

Right?

The disease does not go immediately.

He has to remain patient.

So we have to understand.

Otherwise what will you do?

Now just.

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Much worse,

Right?

So we have to be patient.

You don't have to do anything to be patient,

Right?

Do I have to run,

Jog?

That's being.

The easiest thing.

You have to just adjust your mind basically.

Because impatience is in the mind.

I have to just.

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Make your mind.

Satisfied.

You know,

In India we have various theories when something happens.

So,

Like,

It is because of karma,

It is God's grace,

It is because of this.

So these are all different ways to keep your mind satisfied.

Otherwise mind becomes disturbed.

And then in the disturbed state of mind you will do some disturbed activity.

Either you will harm yourself or you will harm somebody else.

So therefore these things are good to think.

It is the sobhava.

It is the karma.

This is the will of God.

So many ways.

So that way you remain peaceful.

So we have to just keep our mind.

Engaged.

You have to engage yourself so much that you don't have time to think.

Mind becomes free then it starts all these ideas Read the story,

That story,

Heard the story of Nala Muni,

The famous story.

There is one bhakta doing a japa.

To other countries.

Right chanting 64 rounds So Narada Rishi went and met him.

And then he said,

I'm going to Vakunta.

Do you have any question?

Class.

Narayana Bhagwan Krishna.

So he said,

Yeah,

Please ask how long it will take for me.

To attend.

I should have said that sort of a.

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Manjari Babu.

It's okay.

When he walked,

There was another guy who was ploughing on the land.

He was also a devotee.

He met him and he says,

He said,

Please ask about me also.

So when he came,

Met Narayana Bhagawan,

Then he asked,

So he says that guy at Radhakund,

He will take seven lifetimes.

Before you can come here.

And that guy who is plowing the land,

He is coming back after this life.

So then he came and he.

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All this.

So,

When you total to this.

Radhakund Baba.

He was very sad.

He said,

What?

I am chanting every day so much.

I am at Radha Kund.

I am taking dip in Radha Kund every day.

Thank you.

And reciting the Radha Stotra.

And I will take seven lifetimes,

What is this?

I became very upset.

And when he told this to the other farmer guy,

He started dancing.

It's a love.

Actually,

I think it is the other way around.

I am not sure.

He told him that you are coming after seven.

And this guy,

He is going to come after two lives.

So he was sad and when he told him seven lifetimes,

He was jumping up and down.

Only seven lives.

So the idea is how you can take care of your mind basically.

So this is also amniabhilashita.

To be impatient means that you have some other desire not bhakti in your mind.

Because if your goal is bhakti,

Then you do bhakti,

You're engaged in bhakti.

But did Mahaprabhu say,

Na dhanam,

Na janam,

Na sundarim,

Kavitam va jagdish kamey.

Manu janmani janmaneshwari.

That birth after birth is not same.

When will I get my sickness over?

So if you are engaged in bhakti,

Then whether we are here or there,

What difference does it make?

Whether you are in Vrindavan or you are in Radhakund.

Doesn't matter.

But when you are not satisfied with bhakti,

Then we have these ideas.

I want to live here,

I want to go there,

I want to have this.

So that means you have not understood bhakti.

So we should be just happy that I got the opportunity to engage in bhakti.

I will continue this.

Because there is nothing else I want.

So there's a nebulosity,

But you never have to prove it.

But if you are impatient,

You are disproving it,

Means you are showing that you are disqualified.

So then you're making sure that it gets delayed more.

So even this desire that I want to be there,

I want to be here,

This is also amniabular.

So there are gross anorthas and then there are subtle anorthas.

That is what I was saying in the class.

So these are the subtle ones.