The same happened. To that person, I said only this much; I said, "Whatever has happened has already happened. Now, leave worry" "and just as you lie in this bed," "you keep on reciting" "-Om Namah Shivaya!" "Further, whatever your..." Now, at that time... To him, I cannot even say such a thing, no? -That nothing can be done for you, now! Now, we can only say this to him that it will as good as much as he prays! Rest, life and death are in control of the Lord. Every human has a destiny. I cannot change anyone's destiny. However, seeing his condition, his wife's condition, one wonders just this that how a person not only is spoiling his vital force... He spoiled his life. But, along with him, he made his wife a widow. His two children, what is their fault? Now, they'll be bereft of their father. And, such a child who doesn't have a father or whose father is away, for any reason, then the problem such a child faces... So, what kind of a father? The children he had, he thought nothing about them. Just bothered to show-off. Consumed scotch, alcohol! Consumed beer, cigarette. Did drugs! Huhhh! To what end? For a while, you felt an excitement, had a high. What, after that? After that, this happened that the body got diseased. It's very hard. Around us, the society we're living in, I am talking about you people. Around you, all people will be talking about such things only. If they talk to you, then what will the subject be? Or, if you also talk with someone, at this time, then what is the subject of your talk? -Either about clothes, or about fashion, or which new car or motorbike has come into market; we should buy that. Or who has received or when will we buy? Or when I go to college, then I need this motorbike; this is the car I will get. And those who are 14 +, though nowadays, it has started at 12 + itself. Those who reach 12 + years of age, they find an interest... The most interesting subject for them... And that is- the boys talk about girls, girls will talk about boys. Hmm... Now, your age, the people's environment around you, their talks- What is the end result? -That your total focus is left on just these things. How to look physically good? But what about your mental health? What about your intellectual health? Let me ask you a question. Reading the school's books, I know is very difficult for you, at times. At other times, you read also, anyway, as they are in course, syllabus-it's a must. You have to study. But do you with your own choice read some books? How many of you go to the market, buy a book, and read that book? A book which is not concerned to your syllabus? Not even 50 percent! Reading good books gives us space to imagine, to understand things around us. Reading helps us to understand; reading helps us to empathize with all those people who gained too many things and who had worked very hard and became famous. And became powerful. But what went on in their heart and mind, when we read such books, we come to know. And somehow, this book reading helps us to understand that as the other person has wasted his life, we should not! Books can be your best friends. Books can help you a lot! Teach you a lot! But, again, the question is what kind of books you're going to read? It should be meaningful, it should be educative it can be a novel, but let that novel, too, be meaningful novel! Right now, related to this subject I will do some talk! Ashwani Arora... Ehhh.. has sent this question- -"I..." Sit-sit... "I am a 12th pass-out student," "aspiring to be aeronautical" "engineer! With your blessings" "and God's grace," "I" "can realize my dream!" "When obviously," "then I'll be happy and contented, but" "suddenly, my heart says, won't it take" "my wisdom away from me? Will I" "have time for myself? Will I be" "able to attend satsang and visit the" "ashram? All these questions" "compel me to forget my dream" "and start looking for other career" "option in which I would have time" "for myself" "as well! I am perplexed" "what to do? Please give me some guidance" Ashwani, being an aeronautical engineer, if it.. This is your dream, then you should definitely pursue your dream. Do not discard your dream! Do not Ehhh... Think about changing your career options. Regarding... You say -Won't it take away my wisdom? How can this take your wisdom away? It cannot! Wisdom is not that cheap that just by studying engineering, your all sense will go away somewhere. Your all wisdom will go somewhere. It will always stay with you. You say, "Would I get time to be here, in ashram?" See! Whatever you wish for and what are your priorities, your all life begins to roll according to that! If your priority is to always be in contact with me, to learn these things, and to practice these things. To get a chance to grow spiritually also, if you have a solid resolve about this, then please don't have any doubt not even a single... Point five per cent; about this thing will take you away. Nothing can take you away. If your resolve is definite. If we have made a powerful decision about ourselves that I wish to evolve, I wish to seek, I wish to become a seeker. I wish to mediate. I wish to practice my job. No one can stop you from doing that. And I know about various scientists... I am in contact with various engineers and there are some of the people who are, ehhh... very busy in their work,but yet, they are very diligently.... They are practicing what they've learned from me. So, it can cannot... take.. this thing away from you. Second question- "I have read" "a novel which talks a lot about" "spirituality. The name of the novel" "is 'The Alchemist'. It says" "every individual has a destiny" "predetermined by the" "Almighty. And there are" "omens which guide us towards that." "Is it true? If yes," "how to identify those" "omens?" I would like to correct something over here! Our destiny is not predetermined by Almighty at all. Almighty is very busy in His own blissfulness and has no no time to sort out what this puppet will do and what this human being will do? We are human beings. We have brains, we have the freedom to make choices. God is not making any choices for us. So, who is designing our destiny? We design our destiny! What you aspire for, what you think about what you dreams are, your dreams, your hopes, your aspirations, your wishes-in together, these are the things which have shaped up your destiny. What you think today, your tomorrow gets affected. What you had thought yesterday that has affected your this present moment. For example, just 15 days ago, when you were informed about this shivir, your mind decided, your parents agreed. And see, in this present, you're now here. 15 or 10 days ago, when you made decision that I wish to go to Gurumaa Ashram, that decision has brought you here. That wish has brought you here. Right? So, whatever you will decide today, tomorrow will happen according to that. No one else is deciding what will happen in your life; it is actually you! The whole responsibility is on you. If something bad is occurring today in your life; again, it is because of something wrong which you had done, at certain times! See, unintentionally, if you poke your eye with your own finger... Accidents do happen. Right? You have no intention to hurt yourself. But, you were sitting and somehow you have poked your finger in your eye. And then you feel pain! Similarly, unknowingly, you do some actions which are just going to poke in your heart and mind. As a result of which, you feel pain. You feel misery. You feel sadness. While eating food, you did not want but, while chewing food your...You, by yourself bit your tongue. Your cut your cheek. It is paining... But, what can you do about it? On this foolishness of yours, you can stupefy, be frustrated, or laugh on it. But you won't slap your neighbor that my tongue is bitten, so, you're responsible for that! Your tongue got bitten; due to your mistake, it got bitten. Many times, we do not want that we do a bad deed, but still we end up doing. Underlying this also, underlying this also, somewhere or another, you are the only reason. For example, you watched a film, hmm... In the film, you saw that the hero, every now and then, slaps the back of head of the person he talks to. You're watching a film. Hmm... He slaps! In three hours, he might have slapped around 50 times. Whoever comes around him, he slaps them... Slaps them... Now, you saw, saw, saw... Now, what happens, unconsciously, you picked up this thing You came out of the cinema hall. To return home, you, with your mom-dad, or with your friends, in a car or taxi or bus... Just as you were about to sit, you, whoever was along you, him too...!(gesture) "Well, let's go!" "Where did this slap come from?" You did not think that whatever he is doing, let me also do it. But, still, that which you saw, you picked that. It's a very dangerous thing. Our mind can be very evil! Very evil! You saw that someone rode the motorcycle at such a speed... And then suddenly, lifting the front wheel, he spinned around the second wheel. You saw this action in TV or a movie. Now, seeing that, you sat on your motorbike. Inside, your mind has created that picture that you can also do it! At least, try! So, you put on the race and tried...That let me lift the tyre in front. And while trying, the balance was lost, you fell, broke your leg, got a fracture. Now, you cannot say that the picture broke your foot. You have broken. You did not think that I will break my own foot. But, still you did such a thing. Underlying this, it's the great weakness of the mind that your mind, whatever it sees, it forms an impression of it, like a camera. In the digital camera, you keep clicking the photos, then its hard disk keeps storing all the things. Like, I have a camera in front of me its installed here, in this. Nowadays, we have hard disk-equipped cameras. They don't have tape. Hard disk. The hard disk camera, if we switch it on, then the camera will keep recording, no? You know, you don't know, you're doing something vile; whatever you're doing, the camera will impartially record all that. And whenever you play that, it will show everything! Our mind is also like this. Whatever we see, Whatever we hear, it has an impact on us and unknowingly, without any intention, we also end up doing all those things which we have seen. Now, in that your conscious thinking does not play a part. If your mind is always lost, If you're always lost, and you're seeing so many things, you're hearing so many things, and every seen and heard thing is going to put an impression on your unconscious mind, on your subconscious mind. And then, one day suddenly, ehh... You begin to behave according to those things. You begin to emulate what you have seen. You begin to copy that, unknowingly. Mind can be ehhh... very dangerous! It can really put you in lot of troubles. But, this mind can also be our best friend, it can be our best dependable friend! But, for that we need to train our mind. So, if you have not trained your mind then, you can be in a troublesome situation. So, one thing you need to understand thoroughly- -The Lord... -What may or may not happen in your life, he has not destined. Whatever we, in our past lives, past times, thought, reflected- -those, just those very desires, are impacting our this life, today. So, whatever we will think today, it's impact will be there in the coming time. Now, in this, a highly powerful thing is emerging, and it is that whatever you want to be... About that, today, in your vision, in your fancy, in your imagination, see yourself like that!
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