If one does good deeds and the samskaras of past lives are strong, but if they are not given a platform, then they cannot become active. For example, there is a person whose samskaras are weak. And he came into 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 with honesty, if he remains mindful, then the weak samskaras do not get a platform to become active. And a virtuous soul came. And he fell into bad company. Then in that bad company, only his bad samskaras will surface. Because there is a platform. On YouTube, whatever type of video you watch, the robot will pile up the same content for you when you open it the next day. Now, we understand at least this much. So, it is the same with samskaras. That whatever kind of platform we get, only those samskaras can sprout. One gets a platform and then thinks. In his mind, if we say in modern language, he sets a goal. That he thinks, "I want to do this." And he creates a platform, he acquires such a platform. Then his good samskaras from past lives begin to surface. And they begin to become active. Therefore, if a person pays attention to a good platform, meaning, what is a good platform? A good opportunity, good company, a good environment. Where some effort can be made, one seeks such a platform. One gets such company, and seeks company that encourages effort. Then those weak samskaras remain suppressed as they are. That is why God said in the Gita, "Api chet suduracharo bhajate mam ananyabhak." Even if there is a mountain of sins. Even if there is a mountain of sins. And weak samskaras—if one has committed sins in human life, their impressions are bound to be there, so there is a mountain of those samskaras too. But if he for his weak samskaras and weak sins, feels remorse in his mind, and seeks a good platform, seeks good company, and sets a good goal and acts accordingly, then those past impressions cannot obstruct him. Even if there are extremely terrible deeds, they cannot obstruct him on the path of God. Where do they obstruct him? They obstruct him in worldly achievements. Wealth, prosperity, or happiness—even if he becomes a devotee, they still obstruct him. Happiness does not come. So, if he waits, thinking, "When happiness comes, then I will worship God," then it will not work. The intellect that God has given may have its ups and downs. So, "When I get a stable intellect, then I will worship." Then he cannot worship. They do not obstruct him. God has kept a complete green signal; if one wants to go on the path of God, then even if there are terrible deeds, they do not obstruct. He must make his own arrangements for this. It is not that God will arrange everything. Planning so that our weak deeds do not become active, not giving them such a platform—he has to plan that himself. Its planning is that we serve such a platform and plunge into such an environment, and as Maharaj said, if one embraces a vessel of sin and then asks God, "Why did you not keep my mind stable?" Maharaj says he is a fool. Therefore, samskaras remain as they are for everyone. In this life, there might be some good or bad ones, but those from past lives are indeed useless. All those samskaras, if one depends solely on samskaras, then this jiva can never attain liberation. Just as sins and virtues are never exhausted. His accumulated karmas are never exhausted. Similarly, samskaras are never going to become completely zero. They are always there, those samskaras just lie there. So, to get out of them, these are all the remedies. 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 → He must love 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 → Or else, 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 → he must adopt it intentionally, thinking, "Brother, only if I stay 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 → If I stay in good company, serve a good platform, only then will those past impressions be suppressed. If he keeps saying, "My samskaras are like this, my samskaras are like that," then they will not be suppressed that way. No matter how much he cries or beats his head, they will not be suppressed. Only if he takes action will they be suppressed. If he tells me, "I have many past impressions," and he feels very sad about it, even then they will not be suppressed. The sadness should only be about the fact that we must not let them become active. It keeps us alert. Then those weak samskaras remain suppressed, and in this birth, he goes to God. God does not look at how many past impressions you have, or in what quantity they lie. He does not look at any of that. In what quantity karmas lie, or in what quantity your samskaras are, He does not look at that either. How many of those good samskaras did you activate in this human body? He only looks at that. How much did you try to suppress the other ones? So, in suppressing them, one has to plan. That let's say a person I remembered this just yesterday. That the activity of weak natures, when sitting in an assembly like this, where would it come from? When discourses about God are going on, then weak natures are automatically suppressed. Now, what does he need to do? Just to sit and take interest in this. If he sits here making a mess and has no interest in this, Then those will not be suppressed. Then those will not be suppressed. Maharaj indeed said that such discourses of God, spiritual discourses, whoever listens to them with faith, then Maharaj says, the way your mind becomes free of desires, such desireless meditation, chanting on a mala, or whatever else you do, it will not happen even then. This is a platform. To suppress them. If you are performing puja, or if we are doing collective chanting, singing bhajans and kirtans, then weak natures do not get a chance to become active. And for this very reason, God said, "Vyartha kalo na netavyo bhaktim bhagavato vina." Our dependent saints, without the nine-fold devotion, must not let even a single moment of time go in vain. Why? Because the platform of the entire day should be covered with devotion to God. So that weak samskaras do not get time to sprout. We do have weak samskaras; no one can claim, "We do not have any at all." Even if they are good. "We do not have any weak samskaras at all"—even a good person cannot make such a claim. And a weak person cannot say either, "I do not have any good samskaras at all." Gunatitanand Swami indeed said, "What one does today becomes tomorrow's samskara, past samskara." Doing it today means it has become past for tomorrow. It has become past for tomorrow, for the future. So, weak samskaras—and then Maharaj said in the Vachanamrut that no matter how tamas-filled the samskaras are, if one serves God and God's devotee with all their soul, as the example of 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 → That he said, "in menial service." Not high-quality service. There must be two types, that is why Maharaj said so. There are two types of that, right? That, "If I become anything, I will only become the head priest." "I will not become anything else." "If a chair is placed, it must be mine first, otherwise I will leave." So, that is high-quality service, as they say. Is it called high-quality seva? For us, all of it is called seva, there is no distinction. We do not make any such distinction, seva is seva. All of this is called seva. But Maharaj said that whoever has developed the habit of doing menial service, then no matter how many impure samskaras he has—Maharaj said, impure— all of them are washed clean in this very life, and he goes to God. And whoever has developed the habit of high-quality service, well, only he and God know about him; since God has not made any statement about that, what can we say? Whoever has developed the habit of doing high-quality service. No statement has appeared anywhere about that. It has not appeared in the Gita either, about whoever has developed the habit of high-quality service. So, they may not have developed a high-quality habit, but they look for high quality everywhere. Like, "Where can I find high quality?" Now, whatever God does for them is up to Him, we do not know much about it. So, impure samskaras—God has given the key to samskaras in our hands. As to which ones to allow to become active and which ones not to allow. And God gave the key to virtue and sin in the human body itself, only to humans and to no one else. God has given such a key only in the human body. So. The attainment of the human body, is not based on samskaras. It is said to be based on God's grace. Not even based on 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 → No, no. They deny it, everyone believes so. No, but then God, who acted entirely in the interest of the jiva, it is said that if one performs many virtues, they go to heaven. If they commit sins, they go to hell. It has not appeared anywhere as to when one becomes a human. God, out of grace, grants the human birth. Yes. Then, to some He gives the association 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 is the reason for this disparity? God does not put anyone into bad company. Everyone gets a platform, or does not get a platform. "I cast them into demonic wombs"—that refers to God casting them into the wombs of insects and worms to give them misery, that is what is said there. God has not said, "I cast them into demonic human forms." Those who come into human form, some get the platform of bad company and some 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 is according to their karmas. With whomever they have established transactions of giving and taking, there God places them. Now, suppose we leave this body from here, and we have to take another body, God makes us take a body, then God thinks, "With whom does he have transactions of giving and taking?" God does not just place us—if He wants to give us birth, God does not think, "The best platform for him is here, so give it to him there." There must be some reason for placing him, right? That his samskaras, meaning, "All relatives met according to samskaras." Such is said there too. It is said in the kirtan kirtan Divine songs about Bhagvãn and His charitras, usually sung to the accompaniment of musical instruments. Tap to open in glossary → That samskaras, meaning what is called karmic debt. Wherever there is karmic debt, there God places them. If he has established karmic debt with weak people in his past life, then how can he be born in the home of good people? That is why God said, "Chaturvarnyam maya srishtam guna-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 → "Tasya kartaram api mam viddhy akartaram avyayam." That was God describing His own personality. But it was according to qualities and actions. Qualities and actions. Karmic debt. Giving and taking. For that purpose, God places him. In the human birth. God, out of grace—this creation made for the jiva has been made by God out of grace itself. To bestow grace. So, God feels that perhaps this one, 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