Then Shriji Maharaj said, "Answer the question." Then Muktanand Swami asked a question, "Oh Maharaj, what is the reason for having extraordinary love for God?" Then Shriji Maharaj said, "Firstly, there should be faith in God." What does 'asādhāraṇ' mean? The question came, what was the question? What is the reason for extraordinary love for God? What is extraordinary? He sees and acts according to time and place. There is no answer. You didn't define 'asādhāraṇ'. What does 'asādhāraṇ' mean? What is the dictionary meaning of the word 'asādhāraṇ'? It is special, more than what others have. No one else has it. That's what it means. That is extraordinary, isn't it? What is filled in it? To us, Even then, I wish to have such love for God that no one else has. If others have it, and I have the same amount of love, then? It is called ordinary. Then it is called ordinary. Everyone has this, and we also have the same amount of love. Then what were you saying just now? He sees and acts according to time and place, he sees and acts according to time and place. If others have it, and they eat according to time and place, but we don't, then? Should we call it extraordinary or not? That is true, according to time and place. But that is not the meaning of the word 'asādhāraṇ'. The meaning of the word 'asādhāraṇ' is that. That it is something special, more than what others have. Then it is called extraordinary. Otherwise, it is called ordinary. If it is only as much as others have, then we are ordinary. Such a desire should arise, shouldn't it? That if we become extraordinary, then. It is ordinary. If we are content with the ordinary, then it won't become extraordinary. We have a lot. Go. The gopis had extraordinary love, so we feel that if it is more than that, then it is called extraordinary. Something that no one else has, that is extraordinary, nothing else. It's not that it was, but that no one has it now. That is extraordinary. That is called extraordinary, something that no one else has. Yes. Then Muktanand, generally, no one has it. Who are we, ordinary? All those who love God are also ordinary. Compared to those who wander in the world, we are considered ordinary, aren't we? All those who love God and believe that they love God, should become extraordinary compared to them. All those are ordinary people, aren't they? Then Muktanand Swami asked a question, "Oh Maharaj, what is the reason for having extraordinary love for God?" Then Shriji Maharaj said, "Firstly, there should be faith in God, that those who have met me are definitely God." And there should be faith, and one should know the divine power of God. This God is the lord of all abodes like Brahmamohol, Golok Golok 1) The dhãm of Shree Krishna Bhagvãn. 2) Also means Akshardhãm. The prefix ‘go’ means light; therefore, meaning the ‘lok of light’ – Akshardhãm. Tap to open in glossary → Purush Purush 1) An akshar-mukta selected by Akshar-Brahm to ‘impregnate’ Prakruti for the creation process, from which countless pairs of Pradhãn and Purush are formed for the creation and sustenance of each brahmãnd. 2) Purush half of the Pradhãn-Purush pair, ‘conceived’ by Mul-Purush and Mul-Prakruti for the creation and sustenance of each brahmãnd. 3) Taken to be masculine in nature, Purush is the controller of Prakruti, and is also distinct from her. He is indivisible, without a beginning, and without an end. He is self-luminous, omniscient, imperishable, satya, kshetragna, and the cause of all the activities that possess a form. He also has a divya body. 4) Also called Mahã-Purush, Mul-Purush or Akshar- Purush. Tap to open in glossary → Karma Karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → One should know only God Purushottam Purushottam God. Supreme being. Bhagvãn. He is unparalleled, omnipotent and the all-doer, omniscient, omnipresent, the ocean of all forms of bliss, does not have any attributes of Mãyã, divine, always taking birth on earth for Tap to open in glossary → What do you say? What is easy to remember? Maharaj said that the God Maharaj met is definitely God. And he is the lord of infinite crores of abodes. Shvetdvip, Vaikunth Vaikunth The dhãm of Vishnu, and Rãm Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → Golok Golok 1) The dhãm of Shree Krishna Bhagvãn. 2) Also means Akshardhãm. The prefix ‘go’ means light; therefore, meaning the ‘lok of light’ – Akshardhãm. Tap to open in glossary → So, do you know that or not? Huh? Other swamis, do you know or not? Who shakes all of London? Then did you develop extraordinary love or not? Oh, if one knows, then Maharaj said it happens. So, did love happen or not? What do you say about this? Maharaj said that Maharaj's conviction is firm. There is faith, and one knows Maharaj's divine power. One knows his glory. How many points were mentioned here? One knows the indweller. Firstly, conviction. Huh? Firstly, conviction. Conviction. Faith. Faith. Faithful. Faithfulness. Faithful. Then? One knows the doer of all. One knows the doer and remover. One knows him to be greater than all. One knows him to be great. One knows his glory more. Indweller. If all these points become extraordinary, then one's love becomes extraordinary. What? It becomes extraordinary. If others have faith, and this person has the same amount of faith, then how can extraordinary love arise? If others have faith, and this person has the same amount of faith, then how can extraordinary love arise? More than others. Huh? One needs more than what others have, or more than what is in others. More than what others have. Not that it is in others. In others besides God. I understood here. But it's not like that. It's not like that. Extraordinary love is to be considered as you want to consider it extraordinary. You have to take the same calculation in this. Everyone else, we all know Maharaj as God. How do we know? We have faith in Maharaj. We have faith in Maharaj. We know Maharaj as the doer and the remover. And we understand Maharaj's glory. These four main points were mentioned, weren't they? So, if I want to have extraordinary love more than you, what should I do? Do more than that. Then you have to do more. Then extraordinary love happens. If others have faith, and I want to have the same amount of faith, then I have to keep it. Then I will have ordinary love, just like them. If you give 100 rupees in the market, you don't get goods worth 200 rupees, do you? You get goods worth 100 rupees for 100 rupees. You get as much as you pay for, nothing else. So, its value is this, the value of having love for God is this, that is. There is faith in it. We don't have any conviction in it. Then there is no love in it. We don't have any conviction in you that you are a sadhu or not. Then there is no love. The stronger the conviction, the greater the love. As much conviction. That somewhere. There is a verse in Ramayana, isn't there? Without conviction. Huh? Without faith. There is no love. Without love, there is no conviction. It's somewhere like that, isn't it? Conviction means faith. So, if there is no conviction in it, then there is no love. Then, is everyone's conviction the same? Huh? Okay, I say that this work needs to be done. So, does everyone have the same faith? Not everyone has the same. As Maharaj has commanded, Maharaj says to do this, everyone, come on. Don't show it to the eclipse. Then Maharaj eats half-heartedly, you see. If you don't eat, then you kept yours and we kept ours. So, everyone's conviction is not the same. And love arises based on conviction. Faith in Maharaj. Faith in Maharaj. His glory. And one knows him as the doer and remover. There is faith in knowing him as the doer and remover. Actually, faith and belief are both the same. There isn't much difference. Faith, belief, and devotion. What is devotion called? Immediate readiness. As he speaks, we immediately. It should be done. That is called devotion. Then what is faith called? To believe. Don't go back and forth in it. No going back and forth. Do it exactly as he says. That is called faith. And the faith in between is called devotion. Faith, that's what it means, isn't it? Here, faith can be of two or three types. Firstly, faith in the scriptures. And secondly, faith in a person. Here, Maharaj has spoken of faith. That is in the scriptures and in Maharaj, that is, in God. There should be faith in the personality of God. Maharaj said that it is stated in Shrimad Bhagavat and other scriptures. That gold and women are the abode of Kali. So, we don't like to see that much. That is called Maharaj's faith. But whose faith is that? Of the scriptures. That is called faith in the scriptures. Thus, if Maharaj has come here, Maharaj said, 'Conviction in the manifest God.' Maharaj is the doer and the remover. It is very difficult to convince such a person. So, when that is believed, then love arises in it. If there is a great saint, he feels that if Maharaj prays, Maharaj will believe. Balmukund Swami says that if Maharaj takes him, he will take him immediately. But when it is there, it is not believed. When it is there, one believes, and if one believes, then one has love. Then how much does one believe? If one believes extraordinarily, then extraordinary love arises. If one believes ordinarily, then ordinary love arises. If one believes half-heartedly, then half-hearted love arises. So, Maharaj has mentioned both faith and devotion in this. Actually, faith and devotion are both the same. But when they are together, there is a slight difference. If both are mentioned in the same place. Then there is a little bit of it. Faith. In faith, there is more duty. We offered food to Maharaj 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 → And put up the curtain. So, what do we know? That this is how it's done. From time immemorial, they have been doing this from the beginning, that they put up a curtain and Maharaj eats. He does whatever he wants to sing. What is faith called? There is a feeling that Maharaj is eating. Maharaj is indeed eating. Maharaj is indeed eating. And he feels hungry, and he eats. If that is believed in one's soul, then it is called faith. Then he feels love. It is believed, but it is not visible, so what should one understand? So, half-hearted. Maharaj says that it looks like pillars in the dark. If he has tied a knot that it is correct, then it should have happened, Maharaj said. It should have happened, the result should have come. If he has decided properly, if a knot has formed in his heart, then he feels love. Yes. So, more than faith. Faith. Faith, faith is not given here. Because faith is seeker-centric. Faith is goal-centric. Have faith in the goal. And where does faith become active? His own. His own. How much faith do I have, so how much do I do exactly as it is? That is called faith. And when there is faith, then both belief and devotion happen, otherwise they don't. So, that is the middle link. Faith. Maharaj is eating. Even if Maharaj is like that, he does everything. His will is done. Others' will is not done. These are all points, everyone believes that. We all believe that. All those who believe in Swaminarayan Bhagwan and are his devotees, all of them believe that Swaminarayan Bhagwan exists. So, not everyone has love, not everyone has the same amount of love. What is the reason for that? That's why it's called extraordinary. The deeper one believes, the more love one feels. So, if we believe as much as everyone else believes, then we will have the same love as everyone else. It won't be extraordinary. These four points, as much as they become extraordinary for us, that much love becomes extraordinary for us. If it becomes ordinary, then it is ordinary. If it is even less than ordinary, then it becomes even less than that. How does extraordinary love for God arise? We want to pay the price of ordinary, but we want extraordinary. There is no faith at all. He wants extraordinary love. Faith should also be extraordinary, shouldn't it? Gunatitanand Swami said that one should not feel tired. If he doesn't feel tired, then he doesn't feel tired of love either. If the means do not come, then the end does not come. Then it became extraordinary. Then if it doesn't come, then even if others don't get it, it becomes extraordinary for him. It's not coming at all. Then that extraordinary love happened. They don't know the glory. We know. Where is it said that we don't know? Here, it's about the extraordinary, isn't it? They don't know the extraordinary. We know as others know. That I tell you the glory, you know that much. Yes. He doesn't even know that much. He doesn't even know that much. At most, he knows only that much. Then how can you become extraordinary? How can love become extraordinary? Parshuram taught Bhishma knowledge. Parshuram taught Bhishma knowledge. Then that knowledge came into Bhishma and increased. So Parshuram had to lose. Both of them fought again. Then whose victory was it? It was Bhishma's. So his knowledge became extraordinary. His knowledge became extraordinary. Even though it came from that, it became extraordinary. He has mixed it somewhere, hasn't he? He mixed his Kshatriya Kshatriya Person of power and courage, traditionally responsible for the formation and enforcement of law within society, as well as its safety. Rulers and warriors of society. The second of the four varnas (castes) of the ancient Indian social system. Tap to open in glossary → It was knowledge, archery knowledge. So he mixed his Kshatriya Kshatriya Person of power and courage, traditionally responsible for the formation and enforcement of law within society, as well as its safety. Rulers and warriors of society. The second of the four varnas (castes) of the ancient Indian social system. Tap to open in glossary → Kshatriya Kshatriya Person of power and courage, traditionally responsible for the formation and enforcement of law within society, as well as its safety. Rulers and warriors of society. The second of the four varnas (castes) of the ancient Indian social system. Tap to open in glossary → So it became one and a quarter times more than the other and went back there. One and a quarter times more than the other. Similarly, if one has extraordinary faith more than the speaker, then it becomes extraordinary. So, isn't it our story that Gopinath Puran Swami went to Upleta? So, there was a Brahmin, his disciple. He must have heard it in the discourse. That someone sits for 24 hours, it was somewhere, wasn't it? If one keeps an unbroken focus on Maharaj for 24 hours, Maharaj gives him darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → So that Brahmin 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 → Then Puran Swami thought that if Maharaj says so, God will give him darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → So he also 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 → So, he had heard a story somewhere in a discourse, hadn't he, that a Bhagavat discourse was taking place. And it is said that he would be narrating the glory of the mantra mantra 1) A repeated word or phrase. 2) A sacred verbal phrase repeated in prayer, or meditation, such as ‘Swãminãrãyan’. Wicked people use mantras to cast evil curses. Tap to open in glossary → So, with this mantra mantra 1) A repeated word or phrase. 2) A sacred verbal phrase repeated in prayer, or meditation, such as ‘Swãminãrãyan’. Wicked people use mantras to cast evil curses. Tap to open in glossary → So, some shepherdess was sitting in that discourse. That one can cross the ocean of worldly existence with this mantra mantra 1) A repeated word or phrase. 2) A sacred verbal phrase repeated in prayer, or meditation, such as ‘Swãminãrãyan’. Wicked people use mantras to cast evil curses. Tap to open in glossary → Is there such a mantra mantra 1) A repeated word or phrase. 2) A sacred verbal phrase repeated in prayer, or meditation, such as ‘Swãminãrãyan’. Wicked people use mantras to cast evil curses. Tap to open in glossary → So, I cross the river every day and come back. So, I have to pay two paise every day for the boat, so if this mantra mantra 1) A repeated word or phrase. 2) A sacred verbal phrase repeated in prayer, or meditation, such as ‘Swãminãrãyan’. Wicked people use mantras to cast evil curses. Tap to open in glossary → So, she developed firm faith. More than those who were speaking. So, she went over the river, chanting the mantra mantra 1) A repeated word or phrase. 2) A sacred verbal phrase repeated in prayer, or meditation, such as ‘Swãminãrãyan’. Wicked people use mantras to cast evil curses. Tap to open in glossary → Two paise were saved every day. When the discourse ended, Maharaj said, "You have done me a great favor." What? So, she said, "I used to have to pay two paise to the boatman every day, but now I don't have to pay them." Why? So, she said, "You said that the mantra mantra 1) A repeated word or phrase. 2) A sacred verbal phrase repeated in prayer, or meditation, such as ‘Swãminãrãyan’. Wicked people use mantras to cast evil curses. Tap to open in glossary → I cross it every day. The other person thought, "What is she saying?" I want to see. Come on. So, why money? So that woman went across the river, chanting the mantra mantra 1) A repeated word or phrase. 2) A sacred verbal phrase repeated in prayer, or meditation, such as ‘Swãminãrãyan’. Wicked people use mantras to cast evil curses. Tap to open in glossary → He thought, "I said it, and if I stay behind, that's not right, is it?" He fell with the book. So, all the books. Extraordinary. It's not that we should only do as much as they teach us. If he has extraordinary love in his heart, then it increases beyond that. It's not necessary that only what someone has said will happen. When extraordinary faith comes, extraordinary devotion happens, extraordinary glory is understood, then extraordinary love arises in him. Until all four of these things become extraordinary, it will not become extraordinary. His own. Goal. 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