Those who are free from the dualities of pleasure and pain, Those devotees become free from dualities such as pleasure and pain, i.e., favorable and unfavorable circumstances, joy and sorrow, success and failure, attachment and aversion. Those whose vision is fixed solely on pleasing God, how can I please the Supreme Lord, they do not fall into these dualities, and they become goal-oriented to please God, then one is freed from these dualities. Otherwise, it is impossible to be free from dualities, not possible at all. There are three things. Either one becomes happy, or unhappy, or one becomes goal-oriented. Those whose vision is fixed solely on pleasing God, how can I please the Supreme Lord, they do not fall into these dualities and they are freed from these dualities. Favorable and unfavorable situations certainly come, but the distortions that arise in an ordinary person due to them do not arise in a devotee of God. He uses even those favorable and unfavorable circumstances as a means to get closer to God, making them an instrument. The perishable things of the world One success means to celebrate, so that means he has no goal. He is not goal-oriented. Celebrate. And if he becomes unhappy, if some adversity comes, he becomes unhappy, meaning there is no goal. It is not related to God; he has some other goals. They would be of this world; they wouldn't be completely without goals. But they are of this world. But they are not related to God. If the relationship with God comes, these dualities disappear. Competition, rivalry with anyone, all that disappears. Looking at whether someone is doing it or not, that disappears. And a straight, consistently straight path is formed if the goal is related to God. If there are other goals, they won't go away by any means. If they are of this world. In the goal related to God, Huh? if there are ups and downs in it, if it is a goal related to God, then based on that, the pleasure and pain there remains that much of that. If there are ups and downs, that much remains. What are you saying about happiness? If pleasure and pain occur in that, is it called duality or not? In relation to God, in the goal of God, if something was lacking, if there was a deficiency, then if one feels that way in the mind, it is not called a deficiency. So that means, it is said to be like me, right? What is the remedy for avoiding distractions? For avoiding distractions. That means keeping the connection of the soul and non-soul, keeping the connection of God's glory, and keeping the connection of the world's perishability. But still, if a devotee of God has experienced some distraction, then he, in a good way, becomes happy or unhappy. There, then, regarding the perishability of the world, now they are going to perish, and that devotee is going to perish, we too are going to perish, so that is called over-philosophy. It is said to be a bit too much. Maharaj said when Ramanand Swami went to the divine abode, then Raghunathdasji remembered the Gita Smriti, in which the 15th chapter was revealed to him. Those who are free from the dualities of pleasure and pain, it was revealed to him only. And Maharaj said, "We felt great pain." The entire 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 → But Raghunathdasji did not feel pain. At that time, he remembered this philosophy perfectly. That means, if a devotee of God feels pain, there, one becomes unhappy by his pain, and becomes happy by his happiness, but there is also a happiness in being unhappy by his pain. And that is a very divine bliss. To be unhappy by God's pain and to be unhappy by the pain of God's devotee when he is in some situation, the happiness in that is not merely worldly happiness. And Maharaj has called that faith. And that itself makes us feel that we have a relationship with God. So, to be unhappy in the pain and happy in the happiness of a true devotee of God, there is no pain in that. There is no pain in being unhappy by someone else's pain. There is pain mostly when we are unhappy by our own pain. If one becomes unhappy by someone else's pain, so Maharaj didn't say that, King Rantidev said, "Let all the pain of the entire subjects come to me." "Let my subjects remain happy." So God said, he who asks for someone else's pain does not feel pain. Maharaj said, "Let all the pain of the 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 a devotee of God has the pain, the agony of a scorpion bite on every single pore of his body, if there is the pain of one scorpion, let it happen to us on every pore of our body. Maharaj said so. And Maharaj has asked for everyone's pain. To do his work, Maharaj had no household work of His own, so He was constantly doing others' work only. And we have so much of our own household program, so we don't find time to do his work. We have so much of our own work. Our own, own agenda. How much it is. So we don't find time to do God's work. So if one goes to do God's work and becomes happy or unhappy in that, still there is a unique joy in it. That was there in Nishkulanand Swami Nishkulanand Swami Disciple of Sahajanand Swami (Swaminarayan Bhagwan) and author of the Bhaktachintamani, as stated in the scripture's own closing colophon at the end of every chapter. Tap to open in glossary → They were all experiencing pain only, weren't they? Were they happy like us? Like us, this mango season that is going on, so is it still reaching or not? Huh? In storage. Did such a season ever come for them? Did the mango season come for them? Which season was coming for them? They had all other kinds of seasons coming. Of eating wind (starving), of tolerating rain, all those seasons were coming. Still they had joy. They were not becoming unhappy due to their own pain or the pain of their own 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 → They were becoming unhappy due to the pain of God's mission. So they had a kind of over-joy. There is even more joy than the worldly favorability. To be unhappy in that way. To be happy-unhappy and to feel joy-sorrow, are both considered the same? The same. Maharaj said in the Vachanamrut that when happiness occurs, joy is felt, right? That thus, the figures of each other are joined. Happiness means favorability, and joy means celebration. That I am very, we are very then if there is no one else to celebrate, celebrating all alone is called joy. That it was great fun. It was very good. What we wished has happened. And celebrating all alone, so that is called joy only. And if many others join, if we can involve them, then it is called celebration. Public celebration. So Maharaj said in the Vachanamrut that if it is God's will, the 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 → but in that, it is like so 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 → If something weak is seen or favorability, success is not achieved, then one should not back down. We should make human effort, then giving the result is in His hands, in God's hands. If God does not give the result, our desired one, still one should not lessen the effort. To please God. If a devotee of God is suffering or is unhappy, something like that if he is an ekantik devotee, seeing him, if we feel sympathy or pain, so that that is called devotion. Thus one gets joy from it. That is called faith and it brings joy to the soul. If in the past someone did that and we helped him, try remembering that, then you will know. That we feel an achievement, that yes, we, we satisfied him. At this time we had helped him and satisfied him. When I got this chance, I did my part in this way. So its current remains permanently in the soul. If pain is felt, then we feel pain, we feel pain due to his pain, so that means sympathy is felt. Sympathy means, where can I help him? That is called sympathy, what else. So nothing else happens to him, there is no other pain, but he feels more sympathy. And where can I help him, and he remains worried about him, so that worry is good. Maharaj has said so. Favorable and unfavorable situations certainly come, but the distortions that arise in an ordinary person due to them, do not arise in a devotee of God. He uses even those favorable and unfavorable circumstances as a means to get closer to God, The biggest distortion is that his goal is lost. If joy is felt, even then it is lost, and if pain is felt, even then it is lost. Then all other distortions come. Those do not arise in a devotee of God. Free from dualities. That does not mean that he is devoid of feelings. He is inert, thick-skinned, it is not like that. On the contrary, he has thin skin (sensitive). He is not devoid of feelings. But they never lose sight of their goal. If pleasure and pain come, they tolerate them. This world is not such that pleasure and pain do not come. Even God experienced them. And great saints also experience them. So, this world is not such that pleasure and pain do not come to anyone and favorability-adversity never come. They do come in it. But even if they come, they do not lose sight of their goal, which is to please God. That means, free from dualities. By doing worldly activities, if friction occurs in worldly life, In worldly life? If some friction occurs with each other in worldly life, then in that goal one should understand that this is a friction of worldly life. If there is some good devotee, then we should tolerate it. And if he is a lesser devotee, we should elbow him, even if we are greater devotees and he is like that. Do not elbow, this is just a joke. But him one should try to bring him to the right path. One should try to make him understand properly. One should not elbow. One should not elbow even if he is a lesser devotee. Lesser and greater are from our perspective, from Maharaj's perspective, all are His only. But if his mistake is understood by him, and Maharaj is pleased, do that. And if there is some mistake of ours, we should tolerate it. To tolerate even a devotee of God, that itself is called devotion, right? That is what is called devotion. To become jealous of even a devotee of God, Maharaj has called that a demonic nature. He uses even those favorable and unfavorable circumstances as a means to get closer to God Worldly life is to be kept in the second place, and the devotees of God, if they are true devotees of God, they are to be kept in the first place. Not that worldly life is to be broken, but its priority order should be like this. 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