Even if harsh words are spoken, if one takes them positively and considers them beneficial, then one can conquer their prakriti. Maharaj says this in the 37th Vachanamrut, right? Madhya 37. Maharaj has spoken a special Vachanamrut on conquering prakriti, that whoever wants to conquer their prakriti should act accordingly. According to the 37th Vachanamrut. How do we know if someone is acting according to their prakriti or not acting according to their prakriti? When they show their prakriti. What? When they twist it. I want to leave my prakriti, so what should I do? Give up what the mind likes. It means to do as I say. You should say, "Do as I say." It means, no matter how good the prakriti is, how does it behave? According to prakriti. That is why God said, "Prakritim yanti bhutani, nigrahah kim karishyati." That is said in a different context, but "Prakritim yanti bhutani" means even a mukta mukta Free. Released. A liberated soul. A resident of any dhãm of Bhagvãn who has been freed from life in the lower loks to a more spiritually elevated state. There are varying levels of muktas: the muktas of Badrikãshram, Shvet-Dvip, Vaikunth, and Golok. The highest level of mukta, akshar- mukta, has attained ultimate kalyãn and is free from the bondage of Mãyã and the cycle of births and deaths. [Sãrangpur – 17]. Tap to open in glossary → If one does not want to behave according to their prakriti, they must accept someone's governance. If they completely accept someone's governance, then it means they are not acting according to their prakriti. Otherwise, if they have a good prakriti, they behave according to the good prakriti. If they have a weak prakriti, they behave according to the weak prakriti, but they behave according to prakriti, they do not go beyond it. So, if one wants to leave prakriti, Swaminarayan Bhagwan said that one must remain 100% under someone's discipline. Even if they want to spit, they should ask, "Should I spit or not?" Then their prakriti becomes nirguna. Doing as the mind says is saguna, and doing as the Sadhu says is nirguna, as Gunatitanand Swami said. Nirguna means their prakriti is gone. Even if they are sleeping, even if they need to sleep, if they are told, "You must sleep," then it is done. But there must be 100% readiness to do as someone says. If they harbor doubts in their mind and do it superficially, then prakriti is not said to be gone. Prakriti is such that Muktanand Swami and Gopalanand Swami, did they have any prakriti or not? All of them, were they all of one brand? Like Six Sigma? So then, they had different prakritis. But still, they were all under one governance. Still, they were under one governance. If Maharaj said so, that was it. Maharaj changed 120 chapters, so if He changed one chapter, the whole army, in this military, is everyone the same? So if he says left, everyone goes left, and right, everyone goes right. So where is the chance for prakriti in that? Prakriti gets no chance only when, if one wants to truly conquer prakriti, they do as someone says. Then, who that "someone" is, we have to decide whose words we should follow. Many times, if someone tells us to do something and they have an inferior, they say inferior, right? If they have an inferior prakriti and we start acting according to them, we go down. But if someone is better than us and we start doing as they say, our prakriti goes up. But there is no other way to change prakriti. "I will improve my prakriti myself." The governance of Swaminarayan Bhagwan, meaning even if Maharaj is not present now, Maharaj has given commandments, right? If one does not deviate from the commandments, then they are said to have freed themselves from prakriti, to have left prakriti. So, in the 37th Vachanamrut, it is said that if one wants to change it, this is the means. But has my prakriti changed or not? How much do I act according to my prakriti and how much do I not? To see this, we must place our personality in someone else's frame, to see how satisfied they are. How much do I do as they say? So we have to ask them, quietly. Otherwise, if I ask, "How am I?" they will say, "You are very good," we have to say that. As long as we want to get work done. "Very good." "You are a mukta mukta Free. Released. A liberated soul. A resident of any dhãm of Bhagvãn who has been freed from life in the lower loks to a more spiritually elevated state. There are varying levels of muktas: the muktas of Badrikãshram, Shvet-Dvip, Vaikunth, and Golok. The highest level of mukta, akshar- mukta, has attained ultimate kalyãn and is free from the bondage of Mãyã and the cycle of births and deaths. [Sãrangpur – 17]. Tap to open in glossary → mukta mukta Free. Released. A liberated soul. A resident of any dhãm of Bhagvãn who has been freed from life in the lower loks to a more spiritually elevated state. There are varying levels of muktas: the muktas of Badrikãshram, Shvet-Dvip, Vaikunth, and Golok. The highest level of mukta, akshar- mukta, has attained ultimate kalyãn and is free from the bondage of Mãyã and the cycle of births and deaths. [Sãrangpur – 17]. Tap to open in glossary → But Maharaj says that one must learn to identify and leave this prakriti, and for whoever wants to leave it, this is the way. Until one has conquered prakriti, they may talk very big, but when it comes upon them, they have no stability, then they have not conquered prakriti. They talk well, though. Change in our life comes from someone who has conquered prakriti. It does not happen by just talking. Ravana used to deliver very good discourses. Have you heard Ravana's discourse? No? In the Ramayana, Ravana's discourse is mentioned. He used to deliver powerful discourses. What? Whose discourse did he deliver? Discourses are not necessarily about someone, right? He would give teachings. He was delivering a discourse with Hiranyakashipu. Have you heard the story of Hiranyakashipu? You have heard the story of Hiranyakashipu, but you might not have heard the discourse that Hiranyakashipu himself delivered. When Hiranyakashipu's brother Hiranyaksha was killed, he held a one-day discourse, like a "one-day discourse." Like that one-day cricket, right? One-day match, right? Similarly, "Let's do a one-day discourse for him." So he consoled everyone and delivered a very good discourse and did a lot in the discourse. In one day, he did a lot. Even if we deliver a discourse for a year, we cannot do that much; he delivered that much discourse. So, one does not get that much from a discourse alone. What does he do after stepping down from the stage? That also needs to be seen. Damodar's question: "When they talk, they seem very wise, and sometimes we feel they understand nothing, why is that?" Sometimes, meaning when they step down. When they are in the discourse, when Hiranyakashipu delivers a discourse, he makes a great impact, and when Ravana delivers a discourse, he also makes a great impact. But that is to be seen when he goes to kidnap Sitaji. The answer is, they have not conquered prakriti, so to conquer prakriti, one who has conquered prakriti does not speak carelessly. One does not behave carelessly. That is what it means. That one does not behave carelessly. One who has conquered prakriti must immediately listen to someone's commandment. Maharaj's commandment, the scripture's commandment, the great person's commandment. Maharaj said in Pratham Pratham First. Tap to open in glossary → AI translation of the Gujarati transcript above, produced in the same pass that transcribed the audio, one English segment per Gujarati segment. 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