Weak link

Siddhananda: (closed eyes) [i'm hearing] "weak spokes."

G: Weak spokes?

Siddhananda: like on the wheel, the weaker link.

G: (nodding) What about the weak link?

Siddhananda: [They're saying] it’s not good to have a weak link. (laughing)

G: (shaking head) No, it’s not good to have a weak link (laughing)

Siddhananda: or weak spokes, if you’re trying to get somewhere.

G: Right

Siddhananda: ..running on the wheel.

G: That would not be good.

Siddhananda: We know the results of that.

G: Potential problems in the mix (laughing) 

Siddhananda: (laughing) So, weak link, what is that about ? (pause) I think they’re the weak link, but, I’m not getting an answer. They’re saying it’s not good.

G: uh hum

Siddhananda: (pause) Okay, so what’s the meaning behind this? I don’t know, I feel like they are this (gesturing circular motion). They’re transmitting that kind of thing, when there’s that weakness there, the thing can break.

G: Yeah, so you need to be vigilant. If there’s something there that needs to be repaired, repair it. (nodding).

Siddhananda: They’re saying "rust no good", (shaking head) loose squeaks the wheels. (laughing)

G: Yeah, one would have to keep up on repairs.

Siddhananda: Maintenance.

G: Otherwise, you’re going to get in a very bad situation, you could be out somewhere and you haven’t repaired it. I just see weak links, weak spokes, it just hits me like when they used to travel with the wagon trains.

Siddhananda (throwing hands into the air) Oh my God! You read my mind! (smiling) Are you a mind reader?

G: (smiling, throws hands up in the air in a question mark stance).

Siddhananda: Because I was just going to say it was the horse and buggy.

G: Yes, the Conestoga, because you get out there and there were no gas stations. So, if you didn’t handle it, you can be in serious problems.

Siddhananda: Yeah, for sure.

G: You could be in really serious problems, so the weak link, you need to be vigilant in your life to take care of things. If there’s something that needs to be repaired, something you need to take care of, not just physically, whether it’s physically, mentally, whatever it is and you see there’s a weak link, get it repaired.

Siddhananda: That’s exactly [it]. Keep up that maintenance and you have to look at things.

G: Exactly.

Siddhananda: Not forget about it.

G: ..and maybe I‘ll take care of it later. You can’t keep vacillating it because you can be in a situation that could become really not good. So if you have a weak link, take care of things, that’s all. (laughing) 

Siddhananda: Right, in spirit and body.

G: For everything, just all of it.

Siddhananda: Just all of it. It has to do with maintenance and repair, as Guruji said. Even in the horse and buggy days, these things are the same.

G: Oh yeah, that was really important there, because you’re going out across the thing. 

Siddhananda: For sure.

G: [If] you have a wheel that goes out, you’re not going anywhere.

Siddhananda: Oh, for sure.

G: And it’s, at that point that you really have to take the time to repair it and that could be really detrimental. They only have so much water, so much provisions they could take along the way.

Siddhananda: Yeah.

G: So they really had to be vigilant at that time with those types of things.

Siddhananda: and a good point. i think that’s why that imagery, because at that time, they could not afford to not be vigilant.

G: Exactly.

Siddhananda: Now, I think people have gotten casual and lazy, and I can do this later..

G: Exactly.

Siddhananda: Stay aware in your life like that.

G: Right.

Siddhananda: So they want to thank you. I do see a little buggy moving along now.

G: (laughing) (moving hands in circular motion).

Siddhananda: (laughing) It’s not squeaky, they’ve taken care.

G: (singing joyfully) daaaaa, daaaa daaa daa da da da da.

Siddhananda: I feel like we’ve just gone back to the little house on the prairie days! I love that show, by the way, and I love those books, if you ever want to read those books.

G: Oh yes.

Siddhananda: The nature imagery in that..

G: (laughing) 

Siddhananda: So fine.