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Then what use is all your strength?!” she said.
Only one who sees his own faults and corrects them is a true mumukṣu
Children! Your feelings are good indeed. But on seeing certain sights and hearing certain words, your feelings keep changing. Seen truly, there is no human form at all in this world. Not only is there no human form; there is in fact no form at all. We imagine there are forms and give them names, but in reality there is no form at all. Our own delusion is the cause of all this. You think, “I am very intelligent, very learned.” But when you cannot recognise your own true nature, how can you be intelligent? Only one who has recognised his own true nature is truly learned. First of all, one must recognise one's own faults and correct them. Only such a one is a true mumukṣu.
Before worshipping God, before praying to God, you must try to restrain your mind. The mind itself is the root cause of this whole world. ‘Manayeva manuṣyāṇāṃ kāraṇaṃ bandhamokṣayoḥ’: the mind itself is the cause of bondage and liberation. You can bind the body, but binding the mind is not easy. So, first of all, bind the mind. Then the whole world will come into your hands. Soldiers, guns, bombs: all these can burn the world to ashes, but they cannot burn the mind to ashes. If you would stand as an example, recognise the nature of the mind. Try to restrain the mind; you will surely become great examples. Knowingly or unknowingly, you make some mistakes. Once you know the wrong, repentance itself is its atonement. Without repentance, however many pūjās, vratas and yajñas you perform, they are of no use. First of all, recognise your mistake and try to correct it. That itself is the royal road. Human birth is very hard to come by. Man is not man; he is Mādhava Himself! ‘Daivaṃ mānuṣa rūpeṇa.’ God Himself has come in human form.