Shaucham. Purifying the body with water, clay, etc., is called shauch. Shauch is of two types: physical shauch and internal shauch. That is, the purity of the inner self. External and internal, like that. External is done with water and soil. And internal is... With feelings. That is called purity of feelings. Purity of feelings is called tap tap Physical strictness. Penance. Enduring harsh weather (pronounced tup) conditions. Tap to open in glossary → Maintaining good feelings, is said to be performing permanent tap tap Physical strictness. Penance. Enduring harsh weather (pronounced tup) conditions. Tap to open in glossary → That is why Gunatitanand Swami said, "To die in one state of being, is better than samadhi." It is superior. One state of being means purity of feelings. Consistent pure feelings, reverent feelings towards saintly persons. Purifying the body with water, clay, etc., is called shauch. To keep it consistent in someone, it is said here, Gunatitanand Swami said, "To keep consistent feelings." If in between, some trouble arises, then? Then what to do? Suppose there is a great person of ours, and then some trouble arises in him, then? His feelings... feelings in the great person. What? In the great person. Trouble arises in the great person. And if we are told to keep consistent feelings, then what to do? Then do not keep them. What? Then do not keep them. Then do not keep them, so does the consistency break? Keep it consistently good. Keep it consistent in good great persons, not in such troublesome great persons. So, those troublesome great persons should be known beforehand that trouble is going to arise in them. So, there might be some of that too. Maharaj said, "If seen closely, it is visible." Purifying the body with water, clay, etc., is called shauch. Shauch is of two types: physical shauch and internal shauch, that is, the purity of the inner self. Since it is in the physical tap tap Physical strictness. Penance. Enduring harsh weather (pronounced tup) conditions. Tap to open in glossary → It is said "Shariram tapa uchyate", right? So shauch is of two types, one internal and external. External means physical shauch. So here, only physical shauch will have to be considered. Physical purity leads to the purity of the inner self. "Shauchat svangajugupsa parairasansargah" The fruit of shauch is shown as svangajugupsa. So much dirt is constantly oozing from this body that even if you keep cleaning it, it remains impure and impure. That is a bit complicated. It is said in the Yoga Sutra, "What is the fruit of shauch?" Svangajugupsa. And? Paraih asansargah. So people keep paraih asansargah more. Svangajugupsa does not come in that. But the first fruit is said to be svangajugupsa. Svangajugupsa means one's own... disregard for oneself. So, the intention of it, God's meaning, behind shauch, is to get tired of this body. No matter how much one washes it, scrubs it, still it immediately returns to its state. At that very minute. At that very minute, it becomes impure. Even before one has finished washing the body completely, at that very minute, it becomes impure. Such is the nature of this body. So, and purity is also very necessary, because to perform religious work or all these activities, one has to keep it pure. So, even if one gets tired of keeping it pure, it does not happen. So, one should get tired of it, that there is nothing else like this which is useless. Nothing like this is useless, like that. So, that Sukhdevji went to King Janak, to take initiation. At that time he had said, right, he tested him. That, "Go, we will give you initiation, but you do one thing first, bring the most useless thing in this world." If it were about bringing the best thing, it would be fine, but this Sukhdev and Janak, it was a test for both of them, so he said that. So he said, "Bring the most useless thing." So Sukhdevji set out. As he went out of the gate, there must have been a stone lying, so he thought of picking up this stone. It must have been lying on the side and must be uselessly obstructing everyone. So he thought of picking up this stone, then the stone spoke, "Hey!" "Why are you picking me up?" So he said, "You are useless." "I am not useless." "I stay in the foundation of the building and support the whole building." So, In the old days in villages, if a mother got angry at her child, she would say, "It would have been better if a padvayo was born instead of you." Do you know what padvayo means? In that, the two stones of a grinding wheel. They place stones under the grain storage bin. Earlier they used to fill grain storage bins, right, so the bins could not be placed directly on the floor, there must be some issue, so then they placed stones under them. So that is called padvayo. Meaning, "At least it would be useful under the bin." If a stone was born. Meaning, it is useful, that is what is to be said. So, the stone gave the answer to Sukhdevji. There was garbage lying, after meeting many such things, then he thought that all of them, everyone answers like this that we are useful, we are useful, we are useful. So he said that, he saw that there was dog feces lying. Human feces is lying. He thought that this, taking it in some other vessel to King Janak... everyone stays away from this, this is useless. So when he went to pick it up, it also answered, "Hey brother! Why do you consider me useless? If I become fertilizer, then the crop grows very well there." Then the feces itself said, "Brother, do you know who made me like this?" "I was very good dudhpak and" "mango juice and all that." "But the one who made me like this is this body of yours." So, if nothing else like it is useful in worshiping God, and is not useful in the service of God, then there is nothing as useless as that. So Sukhdevji went, "Now I have understood it well." He went and straight away prostrated before King Janak, performed sashtang pranam. So King Janak was the guru guru A teacher. He will guide you on the path of kalyãn. Tap to open in glossary → I need a useless object. If you prostrate, that is not right, you are a sannyasi maharaj, and I am a householder." So, "It is not right, but he said," "What about what I said, what happened to the work I told you to do?" Meaning, "I have brought it." "Where?" Meaning, "This which I placed before you." So King Janak said, "I wanted to explain that to you, nothing else. Before becoming a sadhu, this should be explained." Before becoming a sadhu, because once one becomes a sadhu, then his mahima is bound to increase. Worshiping and giving food and all that has to be accepted by this only, to be received. So, if the mahima is understood beforehand and then it remains till the end, then no problem. So King Janak said, "Before taking initiation you will understand something, after that you will not understand anything." Is it understood after taking initiation? If Sadguru Sadguru A great sant. Tap to open in glossary → "After taking initiation you will not understand anything, so understand first," like that. So King Janak said that. The most useless of the useless, one should get tired of it. To bring about tiredness of the body. What does jugupsa mean? Disgust should arise. Of what? Disgust for one's own body should arise. Those who remain very pure, of whom do they feel disgusted? "Hey! Don't touch me." "Don't touch me." It is true also, because one has to bathe again. One has to keep it, but do not feel disgusted by it. The thing to be disgusted with is one's own body. So mostly those who remain very pure, who always remain in a state of ritual purity, they are very, what? Who always remain in a state of ritual purity. So if they remain in a state of ritual purity, then they don't get this svangajugupsa. To remain in a state of ritual purity is considered very good, and it is also God's command sometimes, for special persons, not for everyone. Those who serve the deity, they have the command. For special persons, that is a good thing. But if one remains in a state of ritual purity so much, he does not get svangajugupsa. And in the Yoga Sutra it is said that the fruit of this shauch is svangajugupsa. 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