An excellent topic. It is said here, how can the force of the three gunas and the force of the sense objects be overcome? There was such a question, wasn't there? Then Swami says, if one understands the glory of Shriji Maharaj well. That means the force of God. Is there force in the three gunas? Rajogun, tamogun, and satvagun. Is there force in them? Is there force in tamogun? Or is the force to be stopped? What is called force? Eh? What is called force? Yesterday we talked... To speed up. So in this, what should we speed up? Sleeping, is it? Like, "Brother, come on, it's five o'clock, but let's speed up for a moment..." Then we will do that other thing quickly. Whatever needs to be done. Throughout the day, we have the whole day ahead of us. So if we speed up for half an hour, how would that be? And half an hour is a lot. Morning sleep is very sweet. In the whole day, in 24 hours, there is nothing sweeter than that. It should be extra. Then, the sleep from four to five o'clock is not counted. The one that starts from five o'clock, its pleasure is something else entirely. So, extraordinary it becomes sweet. So is there force in tamogun? Force in the gunas is visible... just like the force of the five sense objects, just like the force of action, force applies to all of them. The force of action is visible to people. That this action was supposed to take two hours, instead of that he did it in one hour, one and a half hours, so that is called the force of action, right? In the same way, there is also a force of the five sense objects. The force of the five sense objects is only in the mind. Even if it is not in front of me, I will still indulge in it. I will enjoy it. Many people get driven by this force, and they say, "We should not leave anything unexperienced in this world." All these hotels, we should change hotels every week. Because what if some taste in some corner is left untried? So that is called force, right? We get such desires that, "Brother, come on, nothing in the world should remain unseen by me. I want to see everything..." Great devotees, they all do such things, they take a map of the whole world and put dots on it. "Where have I been? I went here, I went here, I went here. Now, what is left?" That is the desire of the eyes, that is called its force. This is called the force of the five sense objects. When it never ends, then it is said that force has come. While enjoying the five sense objects, if it never ends for us, in everything. In objects, in materials, in money, in pleasure, in eating and drinking, in seeing, in all of these, if it never ends, then it is called force. If it has ended, then it is not called force. Come on, today it is finished. "Hayo, hayo." They say, right? In Kutch they say, "Hayo." "Now enough, it's been a lot." So that is not called force. While doing seva, we say, "This is a lot," then it is not called force. If it never ends, then it is force. Force exists in the world too, and it also exists in the path of God. If one is not satisfied in the path of God, then he is said to have the force of God. And if one is not satisfied in the path of the world, then he is said to have the force of the world. So that force of the five sense objects can still be understood, but what is the force of the three gunas? [blank] The force of the three gunas is through its external action and the force in the object... That means the guna is recognized by its activity. All the gunas are recognized by their activity. What is the activity of tamogun? To fight, laziness, eh? To fight. To fight, that too. They are never satisfied, many are in ever-fighting mode. They are in warrior mode. Eh? They are in warrior mode. Like they say, you have to put your phone in flight mode... Eh? Put it in flight mode. So many people's minds are in ever-warrior mode. Even a little bit, and they get ready in a second. So that is called the force of tamogun. Rest, not everyone has this, warrior mode is only in some. But to grab rest quickly, that is called the force of tamogun. To grab its activity quickly is called force. Like, "Brother, if it is available, come on, how much time is there? There is an hour left, so let me rest." Still, to grab the activity quickly is called the force of tamogun. To grab all sense objects quickly is called the force of rajogun. And satvagun, in this, force is mentioned, the force of the three gunas is mentioned, so to renounce. There are two forces of satvagun. One is the good force of satvagun and the other is the weak force of satvagun. Because it is a guna of maya, so in it, satvam sanjayate sukhe sanjayate. Satvam sukhe sanjayate. And so it binds one in pleasure. More than that, it also binds one in knowledge. Through knowledge, knowledge is... "I want to study," and it never ends, "I still, I still want to go to study, I want to study this." So those are all desires, that is why it is written in the Shikshapatri, right? Bahugranthan na abhyasyet. As many scriptures as there are, let me know them all, let me know everyone's opinion, let me do everything of everyone. Let me also know what is said in the Quran. And let me also know what is said in the Bible. So that is the pleasure of knowledge. Gnanasukhena sukhasangena badhnati. The pleasure of knowledge, apart from God. If he gets the force of God in it, then satvam yad brahmadarshanam. In God, if one gets the force of vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → Even if the force of vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → It liberates. Maharaj says that it becomes blissful. Becoming blissful means becoming blissful in the path of moksha. And if he has a great desire to acquire the knowledge of this world, then it binds. So, one should thoroughly assimilate as much knowledge as is useful in the path of God. If he does not do what is obstructive, then it will not bind him... it will not become a bondage. Otherwise, even satvagun causes attachment and bondage, it causes attachment. Is Bhishma Pitamah said to be satvaguni or rajoguni? Eh? He is said to be satvaguni. 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