Pure devotional service is flame. All other things are smoke. (break) You must get the flame, otherwise, your business will not get done. So naturally we fan when there is smoke, "phat, phat, phat" As soon as flame comes, there is no smoke. So again fan it, let the flame come. Then everything will be all right. Otherwise, be satisfied with the smoke. You are cooking with smoke for three hundred years. (laughter)
There is a very humorous story that one man . . . he was a yogī. So he approached—it is not story; it is fact—approached one big man that . . . as people are very inquisitive to see some yogic magic, so the rich man asked the yogī, "What you have learned about yogic perfection?" "No, I can, in the severe winter season, I can dip myself in the water up to this and practice yoga." So, "How long can you remain? At night?" "Yes. No, I can remain the whole night, or as long as you . . ." "All right, if you remain within severe cold, within water, for one night, then I shall give you such-and-such presentation." So he agreed, and he did it. And in the morning, when the man came, so he said: "Oh, you are successful." Then he did not . . . either he had no money or he did not want to give. So he had his one advisor, "So what shall I do?" "No, no, sir, you cannot give money." "Why?" "Now, there was heat." "So how there was heat?" You know, in India they give ākāśa-pradīpa? During Kārttika month they . . . this is our Vaiṣṇava principle, I think. The lamp is there on the head of the roof. On the roof there is a bamboo, and in the top of the bamboo there is light. So this man was in the lake. And his advisor said: "You have seen that the lamp was there, and heat was coming." (laughing) (chuckles) That lamp was three miles away, and still, he advised, "Yes, there was heat. Therefore he could tolerate." So what can be said? He is poor man. So there was another servant of that big man. So he appealed to him that, "See, I took so much trouble and he did not pay me anything." "So don't worry. I shall see that you are paid."