Śrī Manaḥ-śikṣā, Verse 6 are cetaḥ prodyat-kapaṭa-kuṭināṭī-bhara-khara kṣaran-mūtre snātvā dahasi katham ātmānam api mām sadā tvaṁ gāndharvā-giridhara-pada-prema-vilasat sudhāmbhodhau snātvā svam api nitarāṁ māṁ ca sukhaya
[O wicked mind, although you adopt the path of sādhana, you imagine yourself purified by bathing in the trickling urine of the great donkey of full-blown deceit and hypocrisy. By doing so, you are simultaneously burning yourself and scorching me, a tiny jīva. Stop this! Delight yourself and me by eternally bathing in the nectarean ocean of pure love for the lotus feet of Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, the Divine Couple.]
Śrīla Gurudeva: What is the meaning?
Madhuvrata dāsa: The practicing sādhaka may be able to give up lust, anger, greed, and envy, as told in the previous verse, but he may not be able to give up deceit, kapaṭa.
Śrīla Gurudeva: What is kapaṭa?
Madhuvrata dāsa: Duplicity and dishonesty. Oh my dear mind, why do you constantly bathe in the burning urine of the donkey of deceit? By doing this you are burning yourself and also burning me, the jīva. Rather, bathe in the nectarean ocean of prema for Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa.
Śrīla Gurudeva: “Do not burn yourself, and do not burn me. Rather, make yourself happy and make me happy as well.” In the place where donkeys pass urine, the grass dries up.
Do you have any risk of being burned by the donkey?
Madhuvrata dāsa: No.
Śrīla Gurudeva: You have no risk. Why?
Brajanāth dāsa: Gurudeva is protecting us.
Śrīla Gurudeva: I am keeping you all with me. I am giving you instructions that will protect you from going towards that donkey. You do not understand right now, but this is the real fact. We are indebted to guru. My Gurudeva kept me with him for so many years, and thus he helped me in such a way that I can preach all over the world. Don’t deviate.
Brajanāth dāsa: By this we understand that without sādhu-saṅga, we are in complete darkness. We are unable to progress without sādhu-saṅga.
Śrīla Gurudeva: When you become a perfect sādhu, you will be able to help others – not now.
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