If one accepts the challenge, then it comes. One should choose adversity for oneself. Maharaj said that it is the duty of a mumukshu mumukshu A person in search of moksh. Tap to open in glossary → If there is convenience, Maharaj has given such a metaphor for it. Where there is convenience, there is home, and where there is adversity, one runs away, then Maharaj said that is not a characteristic of mumukshuta. The characteristic of a mumukshu mumukshu A person in search of moksh. Tap to open in glossary → To please Maharaj. Otherwise, many things are difficult, but if we want to please Maharaj, then we should look for the difficulty that pleases Maharaj. As much as physical discomforts purify, solidify, and increase mumukshuta, convenience cannot do so. Frugality and discomfort are not in the characteristics of sadhuta. Is it in the characteristics of sadhuta that sadhus are all frugal? What are they like? They are uncomfortable. They do not give convenience to anyone. But both of these are what take sadhuta to the peak. Frugality and discomfort. Discomfort encourages true mumukshus. That is why mumukshu mumukshu A person in search of moksh. Tap to open in glossary → It was not that they lacked vairagya, they had mumukshuta, so they thought that if they went and sat sat 1) True. Real. 2) Permanent, imperishable and unchanging. Is unbound by the past, the present, and the future. Tap to open in glossary → Otherwise, if they were kings and emperors, they could have built a temple and kept singing bhajans there, then? If they had said, "No one should come to me," then? That mumukshuta and vairagya would not increase, and their sadhuta would not increase. That is why they went and sat sat 1) True. Real. 2) Permanent, imperishable and unchanging. Is unbound by the past, the present, and the future. Tap to open in glossary → We do not want to go to the forest, but in discomfort, discomfort itself is the forest. Why go to the forest? Why go to the forest? To get discomfort. To get discomfort, we cannot create discomfort here, so we go to the forest and accept the ready-made discomfort. Ready-made discomforts. There is no cold water or anyone like that, there is a hut, there is no AC, so then we have to see what happens. So accept the discomfort. That is why they went there. Why else did they go to the forest? Did anyone give them good advice in the forest? Or was there something else? There was nothing. But direct ready-made discomforts were there in the forest, so they accepted them, leaving these conveniences. That was their mumukshuta, so they succeeded. Discomfort encourages true mumukshus. That is why mumukshu mumukshu A person in search of moksh. Tap to open in glossary → It increases mumukshuta, it keeps increasing. But when? If one accepts it on one's own. If someone imposes discomfort on him, then he loses his temper. If someone imposes it, it does not even feel good. If he gets such power in his mind, if I have mumukshuta and if he gets the power to go into discomfort, to do something in discomfort that pleases Maharaj, then his sadhutay increases and Maharaj is pleased. Shastriji Maharaj used to say that when my mandal mandal Group or assembly. In the time of Swãminãrãyan Bhagvãn, the sãdhus were often formed into groups, within which they travelled and preached in different regions. Tap to open in glossary → Narayandas... Narayandas Swami was the elder, but who was the elder in this mandal mandal Group or assembly. In the time of Swãminãrãyan Bhagvãn, the sãdhus were often formed into groups, within which they travelled and preached in different regions. Tap to open in glossary → mandal mandal Group or assembly. In the time of Swãminãrãyan Bhagvãn, the sãdhus were often formed into groups, within which they travelled and preached in different regions. Tap to open in glossary → Because he was a very simple sadhu. "I will do seva but not my mandal mandal Group or assembly. In the time of Swãminãrãyan Bhagvãn, the sãdhus were often formed into groups, within which they travelled and preached in different regions. Tap to open in glossary → mandal mandal Group or assembly. In the time of Swãminãrãyan Bhagvãn, the sãdhus were often formed into groups, within which they travelled and preached in different regions. Tap to open in glossary → mandal mandal Group or assembly. In the time of Swãminãrãyan Bhagvãn, the sãdhus were often formed into groups, within which they travelled and preached in different regions. Tap to open in glossary → Then all these big sadhus were told, "Swami, where are you staying here?" "And I will go to travel in the villages of Gir," Shastriji Maharaj used to say. "I had just finished my studies and had not seen anywhere outside, so I said I will go to travel in the villages of Gir." There are all kinds of difficulties there, you may or may not get food, there are no lodgings at all, you have to sleep in the hamlets. Once, "Swami, we were sleeping in that hamlet, we slept after doing katha-varta till late, so there were many of those insects, we could not sleep, so we were sleeping there and right next to us a lion came and killed a calf." So he took that. "We were sleeping at a distance of about 20 feet." He took it right there. That means they chose such things. To go on foot, carrying bundles on the head. "I choose that." Devprasad Swami and Aksharpriya Swami and all of them were there, so he would tell them to send them to good, convenient villages and "I will go to all of these." Discomfort encourages true mumukshus. That is why mumukshu mumukshu A person in search of moksh. Tap to open in glossary → If they wished, they could have built a temple in the kingdom, made their own separate arrangements, and retired, but they did not do so. Here, Maharaj is not telling us to suffer discomforts in the forest, but He certainly tells us not to desire inappropriate conveniences of the ashram ashram 1) Stage of life. There are four ãshrams in total, each with their duties and responsibilities – brahm-chãrya, grahastha, vãnprasth, and sannyãs. 2) Hermitage. Place where tyãgis live. Tap to open in glossary → Therefore, if mumukshus have come to a great sant sant A sãdhu. A tyãgi. In the Vachanãmrut, sant refers to sat- purush. Tap to open in glossary → And if that is not the case, then Maharaj has already said that if someone stays with a great sant sant A sãdhu. A tyãgi. In the Vachanãmrut, sant refers to sat- purush. Tap to open in glossary → Furthermore, Maharaj says that he who is jealous when someone gives a good object to a sant sant A sãdhu. A tyãgi. In the Vachanãmrut, sant refers to sat- purush. Tap to open in glossary → Why? And when does one feel jealous? One does so when one has not obtained it oneself. But one does not desire by looking at one's own worthiness. From that jealousy and from that greed for the five sensory pleasures, one goes into the demonic state. Therefore, Maharaj says that he is even worse than the five great sinners. Therefore, he who wants to understand should not keep such a dirty intention while staying in the association of this sant sant A sãdhu. A tyãgi. In the Vachanãmrut, sant refers to sat- purush. Tap to open in glossary → Because this assembly is like the one in Badrikashram and Shvetadvipa. That is, it is the one that removes whatever dirtiness is there in the heart. If dirtiness enters while sitting there, where will it be removed? It will not be removed anywhere. Maharaj says that the thirst for the five sensory pleasures is like the earth being torn open up to the underworld, and if we start filling it with water, it will never be filled; similarly, the thirst of the stomach and the genitals is like that. For millions of births, our jiva has been trying hard to fill it, yet it does not seem to have been filled so far. How many births did we lose to fulfill our nature? To fulfill our nature or to make things convenient for us, how many births did we lose? Huh? Countless. Still, was it fulfilled? Convenience has not been fulfilled and is not going to be. That is why Maharaj says that the earth is torn open up to the underworld. We keep filling it. "We want to make it right, we want to make it right," like that. We want to make it right. What does thirst mean? What is thirst called? Insatiability. Huh? Insatiability. Insatiability. But that which cannot be fulfilled is called thirst. The other is just called desire. The meaning of desire itself is thirst. But so much, for example, I want something. We sat sat 1) True. Real. 2) Permanent, imperishable and unchanging. Is unbound by the past, the present, and the future. Tap to open in glossary → sat sat 1) True. Real. 2) Permanent, imperishable and unchanging. Is unbound by the past, the present, and the future. Tap to open in glossary → But I desire to eat 10. I cannot eat them. Still, the desire does not go away, so that is called thirst. After the capacity is full, the extra desire is called thirst. The capacity is full and the extra desire is not going to be fulfilled anyway. So that is why it is called thirst. AI translation of the Gujarati transcript above, produced in the same pass that transcribed the audio, one English segment per Gujarati segment. Devotional and technical terms with no precise English equivalent (kirtan, satsang, vasana, samskara, and similar) are kept as their plain transliteration rather than force-translated. Not human-proofread., AI-translated, unverified · Source details