In English
Avoid Hypocrisy
You tend to waste your time in ritualistic worship without trying to realize the underlying significance. The two speakers were praising . I dislike this and get a headache whenever I hear such praise. Develop good conduct and inculcate virtues that give Me happiness. Otherwise, it becomes a mockery and it amounts to cheating the audience. You describe God as your Mother and Father. Then, why don’t you address the audience as ‘brothers and sisters?’ You said, “the devotees who have gathered here.” How are you sure they are devotees? This is utter falsehood. When you have considered addressing ‘brothers and sisters’ to be wrong then calling them ‘devotees’ amounts to an even worse folly. I address the gathering as ‘Embodiments of love.’ You too can do it. “God created everything on the basis of Truth. The entire creation ultimately merges in Truth. One can never find a place where the effulgence of Truth is not perceived. This is pure, unalloyed Truth.” Only when you understand this principle of Truth, the sprouts of truthfulness spring forth in you; otherwise all sorts of artificialities get started. Matters which are relevant and which dispel the worries of people should be told in your talks. You may even narrate your own experiences with . But mere praise is never to My liking. Your speech and your actions should project that you are a devotee of . On the stage, you are a hero, but in practice, a zero. I will be happy if you were a hero in all aspects of your life. Only then I will be happy.