Maharaj was asked in the ashram ashram 1) Stage of life. There are four ãshrams in total, each with their duties and responsibilities – brahm-chãrya, grahastha, vãnprasth, and sannyãs. 2) Hermitage. Place where tyãgis live. Tap to open in glossary → Is the mahima of nam smaran smaran Remembrance. To remember. Tap to open in glossary → bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → The mahima of Bhagwan is certainly there. The name is also as it is, but to whom does it bear fruit? Like this. Perhaps we don't have faith in Bhagwan's name, Bhagwan might be present, but we don't have faith in the person here. So, is he not Bhagwan? And to whom does Bhagwan's mahima bear fruit in that way? So Maharaj says, it bears fruit to one who has faith. If there is faith in the name, faith in the person, faith in his title, then it bears fruit. Otherwise, how many like us would be wandering around? Then Bhagwan would never be free. If someone takes true ashro of Bhagwan, Bhagwan puts himself at risk. Because he has to take care of him. Day and night. So, does Bhagwan ever put himself at risk just like that? If so many like us were wandering around, then no one would let Bhagwan sleep. When does he take all our risks? If this person has such a thing. If he has faith. If he has invited Bhagwan. That's why goptrutva varanam was mentioned. He has to be selected. Otherwise, he won't go. Rukminiji wrote such a letter to Bhagwan: Shrutva Gunan Bhuvan Sundar Shrunvatante Nirvishya Karna Vivare Hartong Tapam. O Bhagwan, I have taken your ashro. And now, you must ensure that no one else takes me away from this ashro. All circumstances are adverse for me, not a single circumstance is in my favor. You are all the way in Dwarka. You cannot reach in a day. And here, all my brothers and everyone else are sitting here. Shishupal and all of them, Jarasandh and all of them. They are sitting here, now I have only one faith, in you. And whatever punyas I have accumulated in previous births, please give me their fruit today itself. This was completed. And because she had faith, Bhagwan fulfilled it for her. It's not that he fulfills everyone's. Someone should invite him, right? That's why it's called goptrutva varan. Mother doesn't serve without being asked. Similarly, we should pray to Bhagwan with a cry of distress, with earnestness. Even after doing purusharth. We should pray, "O Bhagwan, please kindly accept this purusharth of mine." There's no need to ask Bhagwan, "Have you found anyone else like this?" We might say, "Do you have another sample like this?" It's not like that. It was said to express humility. Atmadikshep Karpanayam Shadvidha Sharanagati. Like this. How much need do we have? How much need do we have to offer our purusharth to Bhagwan? Is it the need to show off in the world or do we have the desire to present it to Bhagwan? So, one should do it with extreme humility. One should become needy. If one does a lot of purusharth, does the need remain? If we do more seva than everyone else, what do we do? Do we make others needy or do we become needy? Like this. We make others needy. It's mentioned somewhere in Gunatitanand Swami's talks that someone knew how to tie a knot for a compass. So he made everyone ask for wax. He made Gunatitanand Swami ask for wax. Saying, "Oh, Gunatitanand Swami is here, but I can't do it. Go tell Shivanand to go to him." That work wasn't done. So, this shouldn't happen with all our abilities. One should do purusharth, take ashro, do purusharth, and then humility should come. These are all the characteristics of true ashro. Even after taking ashro, if this doesn't come, Maharaj said that there must be some flaw. Meaning, there isn't proper reality in it. If there's a problem in it, then this happens in the ashram ashram 1) Stage of life. There are four ãshrams in total, each with their duties and responsibilities – brahm-chãrya, grahastha, vãnprasth, and sannyãs. 2) Hermitage. Place where tyãgis live. Tap to open in glossary → Otherwise, all these signs should appear. Humility should come in it. His purusharth should touch the sky. And he should radiate freedom from ego. Then, regarding Bhagwan's ashro, Bhagwan has taken the title that if someone comes to my ashro, I do not let his honor be lost, where is his honor then, it is my honor. I do not let it go, Bhagwan values Bhagwan's honor. Maharaj said, "My devotee, at the time of death, I must certainly come, so that my title does not change, for all people." Even now, he still does it. Even if the bhagat is ordinary, Bhagwan comes to take him. He comes out of his own honor. If he were to come looking at this person, then Bhagwan wouldn't be able to come. Ashro and sharanagati, both are the same, aren't they? It's one and the same. Whether you say ashro or sharanagati, both are considered the same. Shadvidha sharanagati means ashray, it's the same. Rishikesh bhagat's question is, are abhiman and dehabhiman both the same? Abhiman and dehabhiman. Dehabhiman. Dehabhiman means excessive care of the body. And abhiman can exist even if one doesn't care for the body. Someone might be an ascetic, making their body like a worn-out shoe, yet their abhiman might touch the sky. So there is a slight difference. Dehabhiman is of three types: sukshma sukshma Subtle. One of the three bodies of the jeev. It is the subtle body of the jeev, which is composed of nineteen tattvas: the five gnãn-indriyas, the five karma-indriyas, the five prãns, and the four antah-karans. Unlike the sthul body, the sukshma body is not visible and is commonly thought of as the mental body. Tap to open in glossary → So if you say abhiman, then abhiman and dehabhiman both become the same. If one does nothing and just sits idly, that is called dehabhiman, the abhiman of the sthool deh deh Body. Tap to open in glossary → That is considered good, that is called vishwas. That abhiman is not called abhiman. So the words are not quite right there. It should not be called abhiman that Bhagwan will help, it should be called vishwas that Bhagwan will help. Then he certainly does. 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