Should We Change?

Satsang by Gautam Baiji

"Like Vibhisina, who was the greatest devotee of Lord Rama, sometimes we think that when we keep good company, that's enough for us to get changed and do good things.

But sometimes our samskaras (our psychological imprint; our nature) don't let us change. A person could be listening to satsang for many, many years but if you look at him or her, the person is the same! There's no change.

Who's fault is that? The Mahatma's? The ashram's? Or the person's fault?

Sometimes the kids fight with the parents, or hear the parents fighting with each other, and then ask their parents, "What did you learn from the ashram? Why are you fighting so much?"

The secret? Only fight when you're alone - don't let the kids hear!

What if your son was going to school for a long time and still didn't know his abc's? What happens?

Questions arise in your mind. "I'm sending him every day to school, but still he is not learning his abc's. Something is wrong there!"

Maybe the kid cannot hear. Maybe he cannot see, or isn't giving attention to it...

Either you will come up with the solution to the learning problem, or you will let it go, saying, "Oh, that's fine. My duty is just to feed him, clothe him, give him supplies, that's it."

What would you do?

You will try to find out the problem.

You will try to make it better.

It's the same with us who attend satsang again and again.

(We must be diligent and willing to face the Truth of our weaknesses to get liberation. Who's going to do it for us if we won't?)