Swaminarayan Hare Swaminarayan Hare On the day of Chaitra Chaitra Tenth month of the Ãshãdhi Samvat year, normally falling between March and April. Tap to open in glossary → Samvat Samvat The calendar established by Indian emperor Vikramaditya of Ujjain following his victory 56 BCE. It is a lunar calendar based on ancient Hindu tradition. The Vikram Samvat calendar is 56.7 years ahead of the solar Gregorian calendar. The calendar most commonly used is the Kãrtiki Samvat, which begins on the first day of Kãrtik. However, the Vachanãmrut is written using the Ashãdhi Samvat, which begins on the first day of Ãshãdh. Tap to open in glossary → And in front of his lotus-like face, a gathering of munis and devotees from various countries was seated. Then Shriji Maharaj said, "Today, we tell you all our secret, knowing you to be ours." Just as rivers merge into the ocean, and just as a Sati Sati A widow who, out of her total dedication and commitment to her husband, voluntary kills herself by throwing herself on her dead husband’s burning funeral pyre. Tap to open in glossary → Similarly, we have merged our soul into that Brahman, which is one, complete, and perfect. And that effulgent Aksharbrahman, in which Purushottam Purushottam God. Supreme being. Bhagvãn. He is unparalleled, omnipotent and the all-doer, omniscient, omnipresent, the ocean of all forms of bliss, does not have any attributes of Mãyã, divine, always taking birth on earth for Tap to open in glossary → What do I understand by 'merged'? Please read 'one, complete, Brahman' again. Similarly, we have merged our soul into that Brahman, which is one, complete, and perfect. What is merged? I have also merged. That's a synonym. Huh? They do not allow any other thought to arise besides that. We do not allow any thought of bodily identification to arise below the form of Brahman, God. That's how it's merged. Similarly, we have merged our soul into that Brahman, which is one, complete, and perfect. And that effulgent Aksharbrahman, in which Purushottam Purushottam God. Supreme being. Bhagvãn. He is unparalleled, omnipotent and the all-doer, omniscient, omnipresent, the ocean of all forms of bliss, does not have any attributes of Mãyã, divine, always taking birth on earth for Tap to open in glossary → And without that, we have no love for any other object; this is our constant state. And outwardly, we do not show off excessive renunciation, but when we look into our own hearts and then into the hearts of other devotees, we see that even great Paramhansas and great Sankhyayogi women have some attachment to the world, but in our hearts, there is never even a dream of attachment to the world. And from the devotion of God and God's devotee Is that so? It means it's merged in Brahman. No thought arises below that. And it seems that no one is capable of separating us from the devotion of God and God's devotee. And even on the day when God was not attained, the power of God, which is time, could not destroy this jiva, nor could 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 → And now that God has been attained, what burden is there of time, 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 → Knowing this, we have gathered such courage that now, apart from God and God's devotee, we have no love for anyone else. And whoever keeps our company, we will not allow any kind of impurity to remain in their heart. Why? Because we only get along with those who have the same conviction in their heart as I do, and even if we try to love someone whose heart desires worldly pleasures, it won't happen. Therefore, only those devotees of God who are free from desires are dear to us; this is the secret of our heart, which I have told you. Thus, Shriji Maharaj delivered this discourse for the instruction of his devotees. Thus, the 50th Vachanamrut of the Gadhada Middle Section was completed. Maharaj likes it very much to remain desireless. There is a lot of interest in that, that is the secret. Maharaj is very interested in living a desireless life; he likes it very much. Propounded subject We used to say, vision and vision In what does vision come tomorrow? Vision Vision To live such a desireless life is our perspective. We become like this. In the future So, the imagination we have for the future is called a vision, isn't it? That's the vision. And to make millions like that is a mission. Propounded subject Quantity and quality Quality is the vision. And quantity is the mission. The propounded subject is the secret of Maharaj's heart. Main point. The secret of Maharaj's work is his zeal for the Akshardham's dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → Just as a Sati Sati A widow who, out of her total dedication and commitment to her husband, voluntary kills herself by throwing herself on her dead husband’s burning funeral pyre. Tap to open in glossary → And the brave warrior is cut to pieces. And the river merges. Maharaj gave three examples. Which three? Of the river, of the Sati Sati A widow who, out of her total dedication and commitment to her husband, voluntary kills herself by throwing herself on her dead husband’s burning funeral pyre. Tap to open in glossary → Of the river, of the Sati Sati A widow who, out of her total dedication and commitment to her husband, voluntary kills herself by throwing herself on her dead husband’s burning funeral pyre. Tap to open in glossary → So why were the three given separately? Wouldn't it have been enough to say one? But Maharaj brought out that the meaning of all three is somehow different. The brave warrior is not afraid of death. And the rivers, they merge into the ocean, so they can't think beyond that. If it can think, it can only think that much. And the Sati Sati A widow who, out of her total dedication and commitment to her husband, voluntary kills herself by throwing herself on her dead husband’s burning funeral pyre. Tap to open in glossary → They are consumed, aren't they? Where do we get consumed in Maharaj, like that. As many as are consumed, the Sati Sati A widow who, out of her total dedication and commitment to her husband, voluntary kills herself by throwing herself on her dead husband’s burning funeral pyre. Tap to open in glossary → And those brave warriors are The river, doesn't the river get consumed in the ocean? What difference did Maharaj make between a river and a Sati Sati A widow who, out of her total dedication and commitment to her husband, voluntary kills herself by throwing herself on her dead husband’s burning funeral pyre. Tap to open in glossary → The river was consumed, or it merges. So it merges, its existence doesn't cease to be. But it merges. There's nothing beyond this to think about. When one cannot think beyond what Maharaj has said, Maharaj's principles, Maharaj's form, Maharaj's divine play, then one is said to have merged. And the Sati Sati A widow who, out of her total dedication and commitment to her husband, voluntary kills herself by throwing herself on her dead husband’s burning funeral pyre. Tap to open in glossary → Its very existence ceases. It doesn't exist anymore. The existence of the river does not cease. It gets consumed in it, it gets absorbed. And the brave warrior Against obstacles It gets cut into pieces. This Sati Sati A widow who, out of her total dedication and commitment to her husband, voluntary kills herself by throwing herself on her dead husband’s burning funeral pyre. Tap to open in glossary → It gets cut into pieces, so there's no ego in that. It breaks the ego into pieces. He is brave. It breaks obstacles and ego into pieces. To be consumed by fire To merge And to be cut into pieces. Even if it gets cut into pieces, it doesn't back down. Against obstacles It gets cut into pieces in front of the senses. What should we cut into pieces? What should be cut into pieces? Belief. The ego is to be consumed by fire. The ego is consumed by fire. Beliefs are shattered. We believe this. Then, if Maharaj believes something different for Maharaj, our beliefs are shattered. 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