Talk less, think little

9th July, '91

Some students prayed to Bhagawan for his Divine advice. Bhagawan asked, "Will you follow My advice, if I give it to you?" he then continued in His own inimitable way...

"Don't talk too much. Study well, get good grades. You talk too much, which i do not like. If you talk less, then.. Kushi- Swami will be happy. When you talk more, you waste a lot of energy. Thinking is also inner talk.
Look at me, i am 65 years old. Yet how young do i look. look at yourself. You look so old. This is so because you waste a lot of energy in unnecessary talk. i manage the organisation and the whole world. But i do not think at all. I am only witness, like lights on the stage of a theatre. People cry and laugh. There are births and deaths, but i am unaffected. i am not Brahma. If i were so, it then would be Dwaita (Brahma and I). I am I. There is only one -Adwaita- Unity.

What is the difference between good and bad? It is only the difference of time. Fruit (phalam), which is nice today, will become faeces (malam) tomorrow that will have to be excreted. Phalam is good, malam is bad. For one day, if you do not clean your bowels, you will have a stomach upset. So take in good, reject the bad."