Discourses of Sadguru Sadguru A great sant. Tap to open in glossary → Swaminarayan Hare Swaminarayan Hare. Swami has spoken, and Vijayanand Swami asked a question, "An ordinary jiva gets the association of Shri Hariji Maharaj, but a mumukshu mumukshu A person in search of moksh. Tap to open in glossary → Then Swami said, "In whichever region Shri Hariji wishes to establish dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → And even if one is a mumukshu mumukshu A person in search of moksh. Tap to open in glossary → mumukshu mumukshu A person in search of moksh. 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 → And except for Shriji, His great Sant Sant A sãdhu. A tyãgi. In the Vachanãmrut, sant refers to sat- purush. Tap to open in glossary → And Shriji is capable of removing all deficiencies, keeping one anywhere. Therefore, remaining as the atma, one should keep intense association with His ekantik bhakta bhakta Devotee of Bhagvãn. A follower of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → And for that sake, one should tolerate cold, heat, hunger, thirst, honor, insult, joy, and grief, and not feel vairagya towards it. And one should feel vairagya towards the efforts made for worldly pleasures." Saying this, he gave the example of Moka Khachar and said, "This is such a beautiful spiritual discourse, but some may like it and some may not." What did you remember? Mumukshus should not keep vasana for their region or caste, but should go where God is or where such Sant Sant A sãdhu. A tyãgi. In the Vachanãmrut, sant refers to sat- purush. Tap to open in glossary → What did you remember? You? An ordinary jiva gets the association of God, and a mumukshu mumukshu A person in search of moksh. 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 what should we do? What should we do? What does Swamiji say? At present, behave according to Maharaj's command. Then what to do when? Now and ever? This talk will resolve it, it is written in haste. Without Maharaj's seva, one should not keep vasana or desire even for abodes like Shvetadvip. If there is no seva of Maharaj, Shvetadvip dham is said to be more favorable in the path of God than all others; nothing else can be compared to it. For attaining Akshardham, the best place of the second category, which other is better than that? It is called Shvetadvip. After that is Badrikashram. And after that is said to be Pruthvilok. All these are centers of sadhana. But if it is very good there, and they tell you, "Come on brother, let us place you in Shvetadvip," then? Still, do not go. Then you are said to be very firm. Would you go, Sadgun Saheb? If they tell you to go to Shvetadvip, there is nothing to do in the kitchen store there because they do not eat at all. So would you go or what would you do? Saral Swamiji. In Shvetadvip, what is the meaning to be taken? What is the moral? Do not stay in any place where Maharaj's seva is not being done. The jiva does not progress. Not that one should not stay, but only if Maharaj's seva is done does the jiva progress. It is not that the jiva progresses just by a good place. If it is a good place, it is said to be very good. But if it is a good place, and we are of no use to God and in this, and we just sit and eat there, then our jiva gets no peace. And even if the place is not very good, but some work of God is being done, and we are of use to God, or of use 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 → Find a place where our jiva gets equal seva and everything of ours becomes meaningful. That is called mumukshuta. And the other is called bubhukshuta. Where is a good place? "Here it suits me and here it does not. If someone uproots me, it will not suit me. If they keep me stuck there, it will suit me." That is called bubhukshuta, not mumukshuta. Where can what God has given to our jiva be used? If you think like that, that is mumukshuta. Then his jiva gets peace. Peace is not attained merely by a good place. True. "Without Maharaj's seva, one should not keep vasana or desire even for abodes like Shvetadvip." Who says this? Gopalanand Swami says this. So this is Gopalanand Swami's opinion. That if Shvet Maharaj comes and tells us, "We will place you in Shvetadvip, but there is no work there right now. Just fast there." If placed in Badrikashram, there is no work there either, "Eat jujubes. Right now it is the winter season and big jujubes have come." "So eat them. And enjoy." Then? And at one place it is very difficult. It is in Bidar, we have to go, come on. And if God's seva is being done there, then? Then would you go to Bidar or where would you go? If one stays where God's seva and our jiva are utilized, then his jiva is liberated. That is called mumukshuta. Other is not called mumukshuta. Searching for a good place is called bubhukshuta. Still, the importance of Shvetadvip is not any less. But it should be utilized in God's seva. A good object is considered good only when it is utilized in devotion to God. A good skill is considered good only when it is of some use to God. A good intellect is considered a good intellect only when it is utilized in God's seva. If one has a good intellect but it is not utilized in God's seva, and another has a meager intellect but it is utilized in God's seva, then he has succeeded and this one has lost. "Even if one goes and stays in any excellent place, the jiva does not progress." Gunatitanand Swami said this. This is Gopalanand Swami's opinion, and this is Gunatitanand Swami's opinion. No matter how good a place it is, Swami mentioned Shvetadvip. No place is considered better than Shvetadvip. No matter how good a place it is, one goes and stays there. During Maharaj's time, Gadhada and Vadtal and all those were considered good places. Even now they are considered good places because where Maharaj resided for a long time, those are considered good places. So does one progress just by going and staying there? These are the opinions of all the great Sants who had seen Maharaj at that time. Gunatitanand Swami. No matter how excellent a place it is, if one goes and stays there, our jiva does not progress. Then how does it progress? 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