So, while praising the glory, one should keep a limit. That is all Maharaj wants to say. And what is that limit? As much as prescribed by the scriptures. Keep the limit as prescribed by the scriptures. It is not that one should not praise it. It must be praised. Because is that land like any other land? So there is a specialty in it. If there is a specialty, what is it? And if there is no specialty, what is not there? It is not a specialty that it will never be destroyed. Find the other specialty and praise its glory. We also make a pilgrimage place, don't we? Or do we not? And then we have to praise its glory, right? That pilgrimage place is very great, but we also have to say what fruit is obtained by coming to that pilgrimage place, right? We do not say what to do after coming to the pilgrimage place. How should it be done? Or how should those living in the pilgrimage place behave? We do not say any of that. We only praise the glory of the pilgrimage place. Modern pilgrimage places, and there are about five types of pilgrimage places, right? Self-manifested, modern, 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 → What is said, "Yatra nitya sannihito Vishnuhu"? Where God resides eternally. Like we say for Pulashram, "Yatra nitya sannihito Vishnuhu." That where God resides eternally. Maharaj also said the same. We do not see this Gadhada or anything like that. Where there is God's murti murti 1) Sacred idol of Bhagvãn used to offer worship. There are eight types of murtis that can be worshipped: stone, wood, metal, earth, engraved or drawn, sand, gems, and mental. 2) The form of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → there only the center of Akshardham is to be understood. And those residing there, the parshads, are to be understood as God's parshads, all this was said. So what to bind... where to keep the limit? Maharaj has already said this. Maharaj even said that if we do not consider this assembly greater than the assemblies of Badrikashram and Shvetadvip, then we swear by this assembly, we swear by the paramhansas. So what limit should I keep and what should I not? Tell me now. That is, spiritually it can be so, but physically, according to the laws of nature, it cannot be so. So what is not to be understood in that? Maharaj indeed said to consider these parshads greater than those of Akshardham and Shvetadvip. To consider them so or not? What is not to be understood in that? That is, to understand such glory. Not to understand that they will not die. What? Not to understand that they will not die. Yes. Even if their greatness is there, but not to understand that they will not die, Maharaj has said so, right? That these are all mortal and those are immortal, so how do you understand them? So someone replied, "No, no, Maharaj, these also will not die." Since they have touched you, will they die now? And will those who worship you ever die? Does it ever happen that one dies after worshipping Maharaj? Maharaj has said that even if they die, they are great. Where has he said that those who do not die are great? Even if we go to Vrindavan and Kashi and they are destroyed in the pralaya, they are still great. Still, they are God's abodes. No doubt about it. Even if one dies in Sarangpur and Yama's messengers come to take him, he is still great. Because that Vrindavan and Kashi... that Sarangpur... Sarangpur cannot be said to be indestructible in the pralaya. And it cannot be said that no matter what sins one commits, nothing will happen to him. It can be said that if one does a little pious deed, it becomes multiplied. And that is the principle of the scriptures. The scriptures do not deny that. The scriptures nowhere say that whoever dies here, only God comes to take him and no one else; there is no such scriptural principle. It is fine if we have made it up ourselves. Wherever one dies, those who commit sins, they come for them. And wherever one dies, those who worship God, He comes to take them. This is the principle of the scriptures. And we say, even if one dies here, even if he has not worshipped, still he... even if he has worshipped Yama, still God comes to take him. And if he dies elsewhere, even if he has worshipped God, Yama's messengers come to take him. Whose rule is that? Our own made-up one. That is our own. It contradicts the scriptures. So we should also know who contradicts our made-up rules. When we make our own rules, when we create our own pilgrimage place, then its limit also, like its prospectus we make, what limit should we keep in it? Yes. It is said in the Vachanamrut, "We do not see this Gadhada and this darbar." "I see you all as sitting in the Dham." With such glory-praising statements, we have to make good use of them with good intentions. Maharaj has not said anything wrong, but if someone insists that this is not destroyed in the mahapralaya, then that is wrong. No matter what one does here, still he goes to the Dham, that is also wrong. Why is it wrong? The scriptures do not say so anywhere. The scriptures contradict it. The scriptures contradict it, the principles contradict it. Maharaj's own principles contradict it. Living in divine vision with divine feelings is correct. Yet, that place cannot be accepted as eternal and indestructible in any way. And it cannot be accepted that even if you do nothing, it will give you the fruit. Even if one does nothing, still it gives him the fruit, gives the fruit of doing; there is no such place. If one does, it gives abundantly; such a place exists, that much is true. Even if one does not do, it still gives; that is false. When the destruction of the earth itself is certain, then what to say of those places? Moreover, if dying in Kashi grants liberation, then even if a jiva commits any kind of sins and finally goes to Kashi, he is bound to get liberation. Even if the residents of Kashi live their lives however they want, they would have no fear of Yama. Because it is considered the city of Lord Shiva, the direct deity of death. Whoever dies in the outskirts of Gadhada or the border of Sarangpur does not go to Jampuri, if we ask the indwelling Lord in our hearts about these scriptural principles, to what extent does He agree, that should also be examined. Then what is the meaning of the boon given by Maharaj? Can they behave in any way they want and under the pretext of such glory, still roam around doing whatever they want, and no rules of God apply to them, is that possible? That requires contemplation. On the other hand, we cannot bring atheism towards the words of the scripture writers and great souls, so what could be the resolution for that? The scriptures have praised the glory of that pilgrimage place, that if you turn the rosary at home, compared to that, if you go to a pilgrimage place and turn it, the fruit is a thousand-fold. So what about that? The fruit becomes a thousand-fold. But even if you do not turn it, still you get the fruit, that is wrong. Even if you go to a pilgrimage place and do not turn it, still you get the fruit, that is wrong. If you turn one rosary, it becomes a thousand-fold, the scriptures do not deny that. But it denies the other thing, that even if you do nothing, still a thousand-fold; then if you do nothing, why a thousand-fold, let's take a lakh-fold, right? If one gets it for doing nothing, if we go to someone's shop and get two things without paying money, why should we take only two things? Let's take a thousand, right? So without doing anything, let's take a lakh-fold fruit from the pilgrimage place, why take a thousand-fold? So the glory of the pilgrimage place is only this much, that if you do a little, you get a lot. It is not that if you do nothing at all, you get the full reward. So keep that much glory. The glory of the pilgrimage place is not false. The glory of the pilgrimage place is there, it is not false. Is its land like any other land? Where Maharaj has resided, and where Maharaj has not resided and other sinful jivas reside, can those two lands be considered equal? 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 → It cannot be said so. But if there is a cloth touched by Maharaj and it touches us, we directly kick off and go there, it cannot be said so. We do keep it as a prasadi, don't we? Do we not? But then we do not get the kick. Maharaj has also said in the Vachanamrut, "We do not see this Gadhada and this darbar." "I see you all as sitting in the Dham." Akshardham is visible. Maharaj says, "Akshardham is visible to us." But still, he did not say that this Gadhada will never be destroyed. He did not say so. He did not say that it will not be destroyed in the mahapralaya. Maharaj has also said in the Vachanamrut, "We do not see this Gadhada and this darbar." "I see you all as sitting in the Dham." With such glory-praising statements, we have to make good use of them with good intentions. Maharaj had not said that you all will definitely go to the Dham. He had not said so. Maharaj said in the eighteenth Vachanamrut that if you remain according to this, then you will go. Otherwise, you will get the body of a ghost, a demon, or a brahmarakshas. And you will die wandering around. That talk was in Gadhada itself, right? Where was it? "I see you all as sitting in the Dham," he said so. But he did not say that after dying, you will definitely go to the Dham. He did not say so. Then he kept a condition that if you do this, only then you will go, otherwise not. Right now you are sitting in the Dham, but you will be cast out from there. We do not see this Gadhada and this darbar. I see you all as sitting in the Dham. With such glory-praising statements, we have to make good use of them with good intentions. Living in divine vision with divine feelings is correct. Yet, that place cannot be accepted as eternal and indestructible in any way. where He performed divine plays, or it is the holy land of action of great souls, it is a pilgrimage place, there a seeker gets benefit in his spiritual practice. There God has made a great resolve. God has decided His mission, "Paritranaya sadhunam vinashaya cha dushkritam, dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → "Now I am going to take birth in Vrindavan, to fulfill this mission of mine." And then He, God, has performed such great actions. Performed great actions, so the law of 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 → that without being experienced, it is not destroyed. It keeps following behind, wherever one goes. So there is no question of following behind God anywhere. God has performed such great actions and made great resolves, made great resolves for the liberation of the world and the liberation of the jivas, or God, the great souls, have made such great resolves, like Ramanujacharyaji, Vallabhacharyaji, or Madhvacharyaji, that they all have made great resolves for the liberation of the jivas in this world. And then followed something for that. All those actions, they have some fruit. Now they are not going to get it. And these karmas cannot follow behind them. So in that land, they keep circulating. Just like frequency circulates, right? When all pictures are relayed from Delhi, then its frequency is here. If we press the button on that same frequency, it will instantly appear here. Its sound also comes here and its picture also comes here. Similarly, the frequency of great actions and great resolves kept by God, if one gets to live in that frequency, then he quickly starts getting the benefit of the mind. His mind gets attached. One does not want to come into that frequency, and how is the glory of the pilgrimage place? It does not remain without coming into the frequency. Maharaj says, that Lord Nara-Narayana performs penance, and in the land of India, for all human beings He performs penance. So why does everyone not walk? Why does everyone not walk? On the path of God? Those who do not come into His frequency do not walk, and only those get the fruit. And with little effort, completing the human birth, he goes to God's abode. With little effort. Otherwise, no matter how much effort one makes, still that Dham is not easily attainable. But God had a resolve, and matching that, this person makes another resolve. That my jiva... God had come with a resolve that I want to liberate a thousand jivas... thousands of jivas. To perform such liberation. And this jiva goes to that same land and makes a resolve that I want to liberate my jiva, so the frequencies of both matched. So to him, an immediate kick is felt. In what? Not just that he directly goes there, not like that. But in spiritual practice, he gets a kick. Performing such spiritual practice, he quickly goes to God's abode. That happens by the strength of God's resolve. And even if God has gone to the Dham, still those karmas are in this land, circulating as they are. And they are never going to be destroyed. That is the sacredness of that pilgrimage place. Residing in Gadhada, Maharaj has made a resolve for the liberation of the jivas, where else could such a place be? Who else could make a resolve like Maharaj? And even if one does, from where would such strength come? Such strength cannot come in anyone... in anyone else. So of His the frequency of resolve, is present there as it is, high frequency. And if someone goes there and makes a matching resolve, makes it compatible, lives a life compatible with it, then not by his own strength, but by the strength of that resolve, if he does one-fold, he gets a thousand-fold, gets a lakh-fold. Because compared to the strength in one's own resolve, the strength in God's resolve is beyond a lakh-fold. So he gets a lakh-fold benefit. So it does happen. No doubt about it. But if one does not want to do that, and only wants to highlight the glory, then that is all attachment. Give highlight to what is worth doing. This is worth doing, and here such... can be done here, so there is benefit here, give highlight to that. Do not give highlight to just residing here. Give highlight to the one who does. Duty is to be highlighted. AI translation of the Gujarati transcript above, produced in the same pass that transcribed the audio, one English segment per Gujarati segment. 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