That is correct. Read from a little further ahead. In that, first is to control the mind. To constantly contemplate in the mind that 'I am the soul, not this body.' And to constantly engage the mind in the nine-fold devotion, such as listening to the discourses of God. But do not let the mind remain idle even for a moment. Just as a ghost was controlled by a man man Mind. One of the four antah-karans, with the function of (pronounced mun) generating thoughts and desires, and governing all of the indriyas. Tap to open in glossary → And the second remedy is to keep the prana under control. As God has said in the Gita, to keep food and recreation moderate, but not to have excessive greed for eating. When one behaves in this way, the prana is said to be under control. And if the prana is not kept under control, there remains a great craving for eating in the mind. Then, the sense of taste runs after endless types of tastes. At that time, even if other senses were controlled, they all become loose. Therefore, by keeping food under control, the prana should be kept under control. And the third remedy is that in this satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → Just now when we talked about it, fitness. To remain in fitness, like that. What does fitness mean? What does fitness mean? Hariprasadbhai. What? Does staying fit mean staying healthy or what? Does becoming fit mean health, is that its meaning, or what does it mean? What does it mean? Shruti Shruti That which is revealed and heard. Philosophical and spiritual wisdom – as revealed to the rushis after strict tap and deep dhyãn. The four Veds are Shruti shãstras. Tap to open in glossary → What? Strong, like that. Strong. Strong or helpless? Strong. He became fit in this. He became fit in the military. Fitness in the military, or that he has fitness, they give a certificate, right? So in the military, strong, it didn't mean that. Suitability. Fitness means suitability. To become suitable, that shows relativity. Suitable to whom? It is like that in fitness, right? Fitness in the military, fitness in doctors, fitness in farming. Then, regarding health, it has just been taken colloquially. Health. Fitness means like, one who can do something. Capable, like that. Capable. Capable. Capable, but capable of doing something. One who can do something. So the word fitness is very good. So it is suitable. If you have fitness in satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → Fitness in devotion. So here Maharaj says, keeping the body, to keep the body under control, it is said. In whatever rules have been prescribed, keeping the body... To engage the body and keep the body under control. To keep the body under control. To set the fitness of satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → Fitness of satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → So everything is included in that. If one starts to suppress the body excessively, then the body may become weak, but fitness does not remain. And if it becomes excessively wild, then it may become strong, but fitness does not remain. Fitness goes away. If it does not do anything fruitful for satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → And even if it performs a lot of penance, still it does not do anything fruitful for satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → So fitness went away. So, make the body suitable for satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → Make the body suitable to Maharaj's wish. So in that, body-consciousness also goes away. Suitability to Maharaj's wish came into the body. I had heard that about Ratan Tata, how amazing it was in that. Ratan Tata has never fallen ill. For 40 years, he eats one idli and one bowl of sambhar in the evening. Why he has not fallen ill, that was said very nicely. Why has he not fallen ill? His cerebellum, right? What? His cerebellum gave him an order that 'you must not fall ill.' So the cerebrum follows it. The cerebrum. Illness is of many types, right? One mental illness and one physical illness. So if there is mental illness, one never gets well. Now if he feels in his mind that 'I am ill,' then he will never get well. Even if two or three doctors stand on their heads, he will remain as he is. Therefore, fitness. That fitness in satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → So Maharaj said this to him. That keeping in the rules of satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → Whatever rules of satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → To keep the body under control. To keep fitness in the body. But to keep the fitness of satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → If he does not get tired of performing puja, then it is called his fitness. If he wants to serve God and does not get bored, that is called the fitness of satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → That fitness went away. If he has to follow rules in satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → So, keeping in the rules of satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → The prescriptive part, keeping that under control is indeed that, right? Fitness. Keeping in the rules of satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → So, what does keeping under control mean? To suppress it? No, as Maharaj said, to keep it in that way. It is regulation. What is the meaning of regulation? Not going outside the prescribed line. It does not mean to stop it, like that. He has great control over the car. If there is a driver, we say of him that 'he has great control over the car.' So it is under control, right? So what is the meaning of control? He can drive it as he wishes. He can drive at whatever speed he wishes and yet does not let it touch anywhere. It does not collide, he does not let it touch anywhere. Nowhere does he let it... does he let it go out of control. The same thing is said here. That if he wants to reach in forty-five minutes, he makes it reach in the test. When we start from Bangalore, then if there is another driver, it takes half an hour more. And if it is a known driver, and many a time, once or twice we would have missed, we would have missed by five minutes. Like that, while hesitating and hesitating, he does not move at all. And I made him miss. So Maharaj has called that fitness, like that. To keep the body fit in satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → To keep fit in satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → Puja, prayers, remembering God, meditation on God, and whatever core activities of satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → to keep expert in them. Fitness means expert. A driver, if it is said of him that 'he controls the car well,' then it means that he is very expert in driving. So, to become very expert in conducting the body in satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → Not in wandering here and there. But in satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → Then Maharaj says, recreation is also food for the body, right? Recreation. Food and recreation. Of one whose food and recreation are moderate, whose efforts in actions are moderate, whose sleep and waking are moderate, yoga becomes the destroyer of sorrow. For him, the path of God becomes the destroyer of sorrow, otherwise it becomes painful. The path of God. He suffers a lot of pain. And this is called, yoga becomes the destroyer of sorrow. It destroys sorrow, thus it is the destroyer of sorrow. It cuts away all sorrows. And happiness becomes happiness. Without such fitness, how can there be happiness? Even if it is a lot, even if it is over. Still there is no happiness. In that, it has to be kept fit. If there is no fitness, then it will not be contained in it if it is too much, if it is over. It will not be contained within it, it will not be within limits inside it, and when all that increases, after doing all the activities of satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → Because energy increases, like that. His energy, it has to be fitted in satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → Then Maharaj says, this vow of celibacy remains. And otherwise, if the energy is not fitted in satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → then the vow of celibacy does not remain. The body. It has to be observed through the body, right? It runs wildly, like that. But where? In God's rules. There comes a description of King Dilip. He is an ancestor of Lord Ramchandra, there comes a description of him: 'Not even by a line's breadth did his subjects deviate from the path of the ruler, like the rim of a wheel.' The path that has been carved by Manu Manu Manu is responsible for overseeing the first stages of all life forms in the new cycle of creation and he lives for the entire cycle. Manu and his wife become the first parents for each cycle (Adam and Eve). In one day of Brahmã, fourteen Manus reign and die. The duration of the reign of one Manu is 306,720,000 human years, and is called a manvantar. Fourteen Manus are created and destroyed during one day of Brahmã. Tap to open in glossary → from that path, his subjects do not let even a single line, its track, be crossed. They walk on that very track. That is called fitness. To control by standing still, or to control by stopping activity, that is easy. Who is called an expert rider of a horse, a horse-rider? One who, no matter what the horse does, controls the horse, he does not make the horse stand still. If he makes it stand still, then he has not used it, so what is the fitness in that? No fitness came in that. So, its use completely drains this, and totally, its essence, it surrenders to satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → Still, he does not fall ill again. It does not break down. It does not get bored. Getting bored is a kind of disease. We got bored, we are fed up with this, then that is a kind of disease, like that. That is a mental disease. Is that true? To get tired? Hahaha. And the third remedy is that in this satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → Rules are of two types, like that. One is the rules of control, and one is the rules of use. He uses it fully, and also keeps full control. A car, two types of... control of the car, control of the driver is used in two ways, that brother, now, it moves slowly and does not let it touch anywhere. But now, if one wants to go by the seven o'clock train and he makes him reach at seven o'clock in the morning, if we want to offer thal at 11 o'clock in the afternoon and it happens at five o'clock in the evening, if we have to wake up at three o'clock and he wakes up at seven o'clock, he might be waking up at six o'clock, but Thakorji wakes up at seven o'clock. So, that is controlled, that okay, he does not do anything, he does not do anything else, but he does not do what is to be done. Not doing anything else is control, and being ahead of everyone in what is to be done, then there is control of both types. And the third remedy is that in this satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → In this way, whoever firmly holds onto these three remedies, the vow of celibacy becomes extremely firm in him. So in the language of Yoga Sutras, both yama and niyama are said. What does yama do? It controls. It controls. And niyama does, it engages. It performs activity. Maharaj has said both of these things in this. And when both things are included, then it is called fitness. Until then, it is not called fitness. 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. 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