What is important in life, money, love, self-respect, or relationships?

Q: What is important in life, money, love, self-respect, or relationships?

Guruji: Me! Whatever you find after leaving all of this, is the only thing worth attaining.

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Meditate, do satsang, read knowledge sheets. By doing that, you are helping others who have a hard time.

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Q: In the 9th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, you have said that there is a difference between Gyaan (knowledge) and information. Please explain.

Guruji: Information is something that even a computer can give and take. Filling our mind with information is not Gyaan.
If a person reads a lot of books and knows all the information in those books, then we don’t say he is a Gyaani.

If someone mugs up the Vedas, the Quran, the Bible, etc., and keeps pointing to chapters, page numbers, verses, then this person has just collected information. He has mugged it all up, but that is not knowledge.

Gyaan is that which becomes an experience of life. It is that which sets you free. It is that which gives you a glimpse of the ocean of peace which is within you. It is that which raises a wave of love within you, and which brings a change in your personality.

Collecting information is something what many so called scholars do. They just collect the information and keep saying it. But if you try to get them to speak one word of wisdom, nothing comes out of them. This is because the knowledge has not permeated their life at all. They are still caught in raaga (desire), dvesha (bitterness), eersha (envy),ahankaar (ego). How can we call them knowledgeable (gyaani) then?

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Your Smile is Enough

If you bring me sweets, I will feel that you are telling me that I am not sweet enough. I need to become sweeter.

If you bring me flowers, then I will feel that you are telling me that I have not blossomed enough, and I need to blossom some more.

If you want to give me such messages, then bring me flowers, garlands and sweets. Otherwise, just bring me your smile.

Instead of spending money on flowers and sweets, you can use it on some good service projects.

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Respect everybody as you respect me, but don’t expect from everyone what you expect from me. You usually do it the other way: You don’t respect everybody as you respect me, but you expect them to give you joy and behave ideally. When they don’t live up to your expectations, you get frustrated and you blame or curse them. By cursing, you lose your spiritual energy. When you can bless, your energy goes up.

Om Namah Shivay