In this Vachanamrut, Swayamprakashanand Swami has asked a question. How can a devotee of God develop intense love for the form of God? The question is very complex. Love is of two types. One is mutual and... and the other is one-sided. What is mutual love? This person loves that person, and that person loves this person, they love each other mutually. That is called mutual love. And one-sided is when only one loves. Our love for inanimate objects is one-sided. If we have a good mobile, we like it, but does the mobile like us? So that is called one-sided. In that, we like God. That is necessary, but even more important than that is... that God likes us. We may have love for God, but God should also be pleased with us, meaning He should love us and be pleased. Both are necessary. One-sided and mutual. Love is of two types. What are you thinking? What was said in this question? What question did Swayamprakashanand Swami ask? What question did he ask? It got all jumbled up. We must grasp it exactly. What is Swayamprakashanand Swami's question? What is the question? How does God develop love for His devotee? It is not that. So this was called concentration. Through concentration, God develops love for His devotee, concentration was mentioned. If there is concentration in the discourse, God develops intense love for His devotee. What is the question? How to develop intense love for God? Intense love, not just ordinary love. Our love, do we resolve to love God or to love Him intensely? What resolve do we make? What resolve do we make? We love Him, okay. We love Him a little bit. Intense love. Maharaj has often asked such wonderful, unique questions in the Vachanamrut. How is God's intense pleasure earned? There is also such a question. In one place it is said, those who wish to please God intensely should do this. So not just pleased, how to develop intense love? Now, if we wish to love, what is it like? It is common love. In this, it is about intense love. How can a devotee of God develop intense love for God? Then Maharaj asked, are you only talking about the devotee loving God, or... are you talking about both? God as well. Meaning, God also develops intense love for the devotee. This Vachanamrut is about that. Not about common love. How does a devotee of God develop intense love for God, and how does God develop intense love for the devotee? That is the essence. First of all, what is love? Maharaj has defined it in many places. What is love? What is love, affection, attachment? Maharaj says that if there is love, one cannot do without Him, and his memory remains constant. conformity. Conformity remains. The characteristic of love is conformity. It is said in the 11th Vachanamrut, Kariyani 11. The characteristic of love... not to transgress His wish. Not to transgress His wish. Not transgressing His wish means... conformity. Wish means conformity. To remain in His conformity. Not to go outside of conformity. Not to transgress conformity. In the word 'priti' (love), there is the root 'priya tarpane'. The word 'priti' is derived from 'priya tarpane'. In what sense is the root 'priya' used? Tarpana, in the sense of tarpana. Tarpana means... to satisfy. Not just barely getting by, as written in Gunatitanand Swami's talks, right? But... to make one completely absorbed. This is to keep your mind pleased too. To please you a little, to please you, to please everyone. Not like that, but... to make one completely absorbed. In that sense, the word 'priti' is used. The word 'het' is used in that sense. That the other person, in whom love is to be placed, is made completely absorbed. They should not be able to say anything. They should not be able to say anything at all. Prahlad offered such devotion that Lord Nrusinh Nrusinh An avatãr of Bhagvãn. He incarnated in the svarup of a lion-man. Hiranyakashipu was a demon who had immunity from being killed by man, beast, and Bhagvãn. For, this reason, Bhagvãn took birth as half-lion and half- man. He killed Hiranyakashipu, and saved His devout bhakta, Prahlãd. Tap to open in glossary → So that is called tarpana. When Lord Nrusinh Nrusinh An avatãr of Bhagvãn. He incarnated in the svarup of a lion-man. Hiranyakashipu was a demon who had immunity from being killed by man, beast, and Bhagvãn. For, this reason, Bhagvãn took birth as half-lion and half- man. He killed Hiranyakashipu, and saved His devout bhakta, Prahlãd. Tap to open in glossary → "There was a delay in time. I am a bit late in coming, so I feel a bit anxious in my mind that I did not take proper care of my devotee. I should have come earlier, as he is small and Hiranyakashipu is big, so I should have come earlier. If someone is worshiping Me, I should come, but I got late. There was a delay in time. I got late, so ask for something." So Prahladji said, "I have no desire to ask for anything." "Even so," He said, "if you have no desire, it's okay, but it is My desire, so ask for something. Ask to please Me. Ask so that you are pleased." So what did Prahladji ask for? "If there is something to ask, if there is any desire to ask left in my heart, grant that it may be removed." So the Lord felt, "Now what should I give him?" The Lord was stunned as to what to do, He became compelled. The Lord became so compelled as to what to do. That is called making one completely absorbed. To make one completely absorbed. The word 'priti' is used in the sense of making one completely absorbed. Your mind is also pleased, now pleased, right? I did that much, which you were saying. We tell Swami to give a discourse in English, so after giving one or two discourses, we let him hear it and ask, "Now pleased?" You were insisting two or three times, so I did it, see. I did it. Not like that, the word 'priti' is not used in that sense. 'Priya tarpane'. Tarpana means to satisfy the other person. To love God means to make God extremely happy, just as Prahlad did. Prahlad made God happy, so God became compelled as to what to do for him. "What should I give him? He gave me everything, but what should I give him?" Like that. The reason we do not feel such spiritual intoxication is our love for the five sensory objects, or the glory of God, and first of all, how did we even desire to do this? Why did we desire to do this? God is such a personality that it is not that He has no desire, He is waiting as to when to turn towards us, "If he does something for Me, I will quickly be pleased." So it is not that there is a lack of desire on God's part. It is our own lack of desire, hence we lack the quality of a seeker, we do not feel the hunger. Not just "I please God," but "I please God intensely." The question has come like this, right? How can a devotee of God develop intense love for God? How to please Him intensely, how to develop intense love, affection, how to develop love? It is about intense love. Not ordinary. There is no such rise in our minds, first of all, that is the thing. And even if there is a rise, it is only that much. Then we must think about how it happens. So if it is asked how it happens, Maharaj has given guidance on that very thing. Maharaj has given guidance on how a devotee of God can develop intense love for God. And then, not only that, Maharaj corrected it and said, how does God also develop intense love for the devotee of God? 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