In sakhyarati, the sentiment of friendship is primary. Equal-spirited friendship, equal-spirited friendship. Who is called a friend? When one is as powerful as Him, then they are called a friend. If one wants to be a friend of God, one must acquire power like His. Only then can one be His friend. They possess equal capability. In sakha bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → I remembered that talk of Gunatitanand Swami. That if there are two people with the same preference, then they are equal to lakhs, lakhs. It is written so. So what should be the meaning of that? Those with the same power? What? Those with the same power? Those with the same power, two with equal power. With the same power? Is that the meaning? It said 'same preference', where did it say 'power'? If there are two with the same preference, then they are equal to lakhs. Believe so. So what does that mean? What does it mean, brother? Those with the same mind. What? Those with the same mind. One, those with the same mind. Those with the same mind. What lakhs of people together cannot do, these two can do. Where is it written so? Nothing like that is said. If there are two with good preferences. Two with good preferences. Again, it is not said that both should be of the same age. If they are of the same age, then what are they called? Equals. If they are called equals, then it is said that equals should come together. There should be the same preference, even if there is an up-down. We think that even if there is an up-down with Gunatitanand Swami, we should have a preference like his. Then we will benefit a lot. Then there will be more benefit in this path of God. If there are two with the same preference, then there is more compatibility, so says Gunatitanand Swami. So in that, everyone is of the same age, often in today's times, that formula is a formula. So if we want to apply that formula, then it is not even necessary that they are together. We should align our preference with Maharaj. We should match our preference with Maharaj's preference. Then nothing else remains for us. Two with the same preference are needed. We can match our preference with Gunatitanand Swami. Because preference is written in his scriptures. Maharaj has written His preference in His Vachanamrut that 'this is My opinion and Our preference is like this'. So if we develop such a preference, then we are said to have become two with the same preference. In sakhyarati, the sentiment of friendship is primary. Equal-spirited friendship, possessing equal capability. In that, the same preference is included. What is the meaning of sakha? Same preference. And also equal capability. In sakha, it is said that equal-spirited friendship. What does equal-spirited mean? Power. Power as well as preference. Life-force is very dear to a person. And in life-force, all power resides. So in that, two things are said at once. Equal-spirited friendship. Meaning, same preference and equal power. These two things should be there. If there is equal power but not the same preference, can they be friends? Then they cannot be. And if there is the same preference but not equal power, even then they cannot be friends. They can be master-servant. That can happen, but they cannot be friends. But with Maharaj, we do not have equal power, so how to interpret how to interpret equal power with Maharaj? We, with Maharaj, equal power Where is power needed? What is the need for power? If one wants to be a friend, right? Then M And those virtues are just called virtues, they cannot be called capability. What? Other virtues are called capability. In negative virtues, capability is needed. Nishkam, nirlobh, nihswarth, nihsneh, what is needed in them? In them, capability is also needed. That we can immediately become all of these, it is not like that. In that, capability is needed. Otherwise, showing mercy, helping someone, those are also virtues of saintliness. In them, not so much capability is needed, less is needed. So, equal-spirited friendship. Meaning, when virtues like nishkam etc. of Maharaj develop, then capability like Maharaj's is said to have been achieved. So Brahmanand Swami had such capability in him, so he could be His friend. In sakha bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → If there are two true friends, and then one gets any kind of benefit, then they cannot remain without sharing that benefit with the friend. Only then are they called friends. Otherwise, they are not called friends. Both might tie their tails together and roam around everywhere, but if they do not share, especially happiness, joy, if they do not share that with each other, then they are not called friends. If there are two true friends, and then one gets any kind of benefit, then they cannot remain without sharing that benefit with the friend, that is the friendly tendency. Similarly, the eager tendency to deliver whatever positive one has received to God, for God, is called sakha tendency. So all of these can happen if they are small. It is sakha tendency. These are all mental sentiments. There are nine types of sentiments. In this, four-five types are mentioned, right? Which ones? Dasya, sakhya, vatsalya, madhurya, and shant. These are all tendencies. Dasya tendency, sakhya tendency. What does dasya tendency mean? That somehow, by wearing out my body, I offer it to God. What does sakhya tendency mean? Somehow to deliver happiness to God. If I get some benefit, I directly give it to God. If I get the benefit, that is called sakhya tendency. Which is the best? Which is the best of all? That by which more love for God develops is the best. Then, whatever inclination one has. The best of all is madhurya tendency. Madhurya tendency has no inspiring factor. Automatically, even if there are prohibitions, breaking the barriers, madhurya tendency is like that in the worldly sense. In the path of God, there is nothing like that. Similarly, the eager tendency to deliver whatever positive one has received to God, for God, is called sakha tendency. And the heart-binding with God that occurs while delivering happiness to Him is sakha bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → In vatsalya rati, the sentiment of vatsalya is primary. A newly calved cow licks her calf with her tongue. She cleans her calf by licking it with her tongue, and thus she develops extreme love for the calf. So that no one can go near the calf, similarly, such devotees consider God as their child, consider Him as a disciple, 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