Similarly, to avoid opposing resolutions in God, to avoid opposing resolutions from God. And if there is a resolution contrary to God, that is its anekantikatva (non-absolutism). That is its anekantikatva. When we have other resolutions from God's anuvrutti (following), that is anekantikatva. If there is a true ekantik bhakta bhakta Devotee of Bhagvãn. A follower of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → And that is the main thing. If you don't know Ashtanga Yoga, there is no problem in being an ekantik. It's not a question of whether knowing Ashtanga Yoga brings ekantikatva, or not knowing Ashtanga Yoga doesn't bring ekantikatva. Even if the mind has opposing resolutions, ekantikatva does not come from that. And the mind's resolutions, I want to have resolutions that are in accordance with it, some people want to have resolutions that are even further than that. Maharaj still wishes that we offer more than what they expect from us. No, no, Maharaj, if you say so, I will do it completely. I'll do it even if you don't say so. He stands with it. Then his resolutions are in accordance with his anuvrutti. And if the resolution is according to the anuvrutti, then he has become an ekantik. If it becomes opposite to the anuvrutti, then he has a problem with ekantikatva. One who fights with the mind and conquers the mind, and recognizes that these resolutions are such that they do not fit into God's anuvrutti. Then he fights with it. While fighting with it, he then says that Maharaj says that even if he dies and does not conquer the mind, he still becomes a yogabhrashta (one who has fallen from yoga). So, becoming a yogabhrashta is also a very great position. Similarly, one who fights with the mind and conquers the mind attains the state of nirvikalpa (doubtless) and becomes an ekantik bhakta bhakta Devotee of Bhagvãn. A follower of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → And if one loses to the mind, one still becomes a yogabhrashta, and then, whether in one birth, or two births, or many births, ultimately one becomes an ekantik bhakta bhakta Devotee of Bhagvãn. A follower of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → But in yogabhrashta, it is said that due to past samskaras, his upliftment happens in such a way from birth that he then completes it and goes. The shlokas are very good, there are five or six shlokas of that yogabhrashta, and they are very good, there is great glory. That is the glory of yogabhrashta. You mentioned in Kakabhai's Vachanamrut, in Kakabhai's Vachanamrut. Yes, 70th. If there are resolutions, his master sees them, so in this way. Maharaj said, didn't he, that he should keep fighting against it. This is mentioned in it. That if he keeps fighting, then his master sees what kind of challenges he faced and what kind of obstacles he encountered. And if one loses to the mind, one still becomes a yogabhrashta, and then, whether in one birth, or two births, or many births, ultimately one becomes an ekantik bhakta bhakta Devotee of Bhagvãn. A follower of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → But he He has done the work. If he befriends the mind, it won't happen. He should be opposite to the mind. With the mind means he should be opposite to the world. The nature of the mind is to be exhausted in the world. So, he has to first detach himself from these enjoyments, luxuries, and all that. He has to detach himself from what the mind desires, he has to detach himself from what the mind likes. If we don't have favorable circumstances, we don't fall back. Even in favorable and unfavorable circumstances, we are connected with God, not with favorable circumstances. Our connection is with God. And favorable and unfavorable circumstances come. So, we become loose, or rather, we become sluggish, or if more favorable circumstances come, we get power. Then its meaning is that we are connected with favorable and unfavorable circumstances. We are not connected with God. God is one with everyone. He is for all time, there is no question of him becoming weak or soft. If we are connected with him, then all this goes to the side. And the world becomes separate from him, and he becomes an ekantik. But one should connect with him with a sense of possessiveness. Maharaj said that no one can have a strong sense of possessiveness with God. So, if there are his true devotees and true ekantiks. If he connects with them with a sense of possessiveness, and the more firmly he connects with them, the more he becomes an ekantik in due course. One connects with God, but if one connects with this, one becomes an ekantik. He becomes an ekantik. And if one loses to the mind, one still becomes a yogabhrashta, and then in one birth. What is the meaning of connecting with him? Huh? So that it is not forgotten, what should be done? Connect in anuvrutti. His anuvrutti, his intention, is said to be 'sah eva sah' (he is indeed he). Yo yat shraddha sah. Yo yat shraddha sah. Sah eva sah. Sah eva sah. That his intention is his very nature. What is a person's inner self, what is the inner nature? What is the measure of what I am? What is my intention? What is my intention? My firm intention to do in this life, a very strong intention, if there is a weak point, it is a burning desire. What is my burning desire? That is its very nature. And that is called anuvrutti. Anuvrutti is about connecting with him, that his intention should become our intention. And whatever does not match with his intention, we should cut off that intention. And in that, there should be proper setting. Similarly, if a devotee of God is an ekantik bhakta bhakta Devotee of Bhagvãn. A follower of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → If that happens, then this also becomes an ekantik. This also becomes an ekantik. Nishkulanand Swami Nishkulanand Swami Disciple of Sahajanand Swami (Swaminarayan Bhagwan) and author of the Bhaktachintamani, as stated in the scripture's own closing colophon at the end of every chapter. Tap to open in glossary → Hari Hari An avatãr of Bhagvãn. He incarnated in His four-armed svarup to save an elephant from being killed by a crocodile. He cut off the crocodile’s head with His chakra. Tap to open in glossary → What is its meaning? Can a human being or a jiva ever become God? Such is the intention in God. If one grasps such an intention, then a saint is Hari Hari An avatãr of Bhagvãn. He incarnated in His four-armed svarup to save an elephant from being killed by a crocodile. He cut off the crocodile’s head with His chakra. Tap to open in glossary → His intention is to purify the entire world, and if one grasps that intention and starts working on it, then a saint is Hari Hari An avatãr of Bhagvãn. He incarnated in His four-armed svarup to save an elephant from being killed by a crocodile. He cut off the crocodile’s head with His chakra. Tap to open in glossary → Otherwise, how can those who excrete become God? No one becomes God. And yet it is said, 'A saint is Hari Hari An avatãr of Bhagvãn. He incarnated in His four-armed svarup to save an elephant from being killed by a crocodile. He cut off the crocodile’s head with His chakra. Tap to open in glossary → My heart is in the saints, and I am in the heart of the saints. I am in his heart, and he is in my heart. So what? My intention is his intention, and his intention is my intention; there is no difference between the two. My anuvrutti is his anuvrutti, and his anuvrutti is my anuvrutti. I follow his anuvrutti, and he follows my anuvrutti; there is no difference at all. That is called a mission. My mission is his mission, and his mission is my mission. There is no difference between the two. And that is his ekantikatva. Ekantikatva means what else, as if light is breaking through in it. His mission is not outside of this mission. What God intended to do by coming to earth. He is a collaborator in that, and he does not want to do anything else outside of that. Then his anuvrutti was formed, and he is said to have joined it with an ekantik sentiment. In God, with an ekantik sentiment, why should he stand embracing him? Even those poor people get confused. What should I connect him with? What should I connect with in an ekantik sentiment? What is his intention to connect with an ekantik sentiment? If one stays with his intention for a long time, then his intention is grasped. Even if it is not fully grasped, it is grasped enough for us that his intention is like this. Similarly, God's intention is also grasped. No one can fully grasp God. But it's not that they can't grasp him at all. No one can fully grasp God. But he cannot grasp it completely, but he can grasp it for his own life. God himself keeps saying. That I come to earth in every age for the protection of the good, for the destruction of the wicked, and for the establishment of dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → Yes, you can catch it, so then he says that I come for this reason, my intention is like this. My intention is like this. And if someone grasps that intention and makes his own intention like that. Then he can do that. So, his intention is his vision and mission. It can be grasped. And it can be grasped in an ekantik way. I don't need to grasp anything else. And if this has been grasped, then I don't need to grasp anything else. It's finished here. One has crossed the ocean of existence. Then, in that way, if I take from here, it ends here, and if I take from here, I keep taking all the good things from here. To have 24 gurus. Dattatreya did it, where are we now? To have 24 gurus and connect at 24 places. If one connects at 24 places, Dattatreya Bhagwan said, then what should be done about it? We should then connect at the right place. Disconnect from 25 places and connect at one place, that is ekantik. It is necessary to see how many disconnections to make. If one loses to the mind, one still becomes a yogabhrashta, and then, whether in one birth, or two births, or many births, ultimately one becomes an ekantik bhakta bhakta Devotee of Bhagvãn. A follower of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → But the effort he made does not get lost. Therefore, a wise person, for the sake of his own welfare, it is said, 'Nehaabhikrama naashosti' (there is no destruction of effort). The effort never gets lost. Even if it's just the beginning. If one has resolved that I want to do this. Even then, there is no destruction of the sequence. God is eternal. God is eternal. All his resolutions are eternal like that. Not only that, if any other ordinary jiva makes a resolution keeping him at the center, then that too is eternal. One has to do it by keeping him at the center. Not according to one's own mind. Maharaj said that the effort does not get lost. It doesn't get lost. That if one has made an effort for God, if one has made an effort to please God. Then, just as God is eternal and God's resolution is eternal, so too does the resolution of this ordinary jiva become eternal. In this world, one who is caught in the cycle of birth and death, and he gets up and makes such a resolution. That I want to please him. And what is his intention and what is his mission and vision? So, I want to follow him properly and please him. Then time cannot destroy his resolution. Maya cannot absorb him. Bharatji's resolution was that he wanted to please God. Even after three births, time could not damage him. That resolution remained the same. On the contrary, after a while, he felt more hungry. So, the resolution that Bharatji had when he was a king, when he became Jadbharat. Then he became so powerful that no one could suppress him. Then those people suppressed him. But now no one can suppress this resolution. On the contrary, time could not damage him. Time made him strong and intoxicated, so now no one can suppress him. The resolution he had for three years, for three births, that resolution could not be suppressed. Just this resolution. God said, 'Nehaabhikrama naashosti' (there is no destruction of effort). If one makes a resolution related to God, then time cannot damage that resolution. Maya cannot absorb him. Otherwise, Maya will absorb everyone into her womb, even great ones like Brahma. All living beings, she will digest them in her womb. But Maya cannot suppress him. If such a resolution is made, then the resolution cannot be suppressed. And the one who makes the resolution cannot be suppressed. Maya cannot suppress. And its glory is mentioned in Yogabhrashta. Yogabhrashta lives in eternal heaven. And there, what does he give? One goes to heaven in two ways. Firstly, one goes based on merit. And secondly, one goes based on this yogabhrashta. He had this resolution, but he couldn't complete it, so he goes to the other side. So, if one goes based on merit, how long does it last? Until the merit is exhausted. And one who has gone based on this resolution. Eternal. When he is satisfied. He feels that now I am very satisfied after enjoying these pleasures. Now I want to go and meet God, it's getting very late. Because he is caught in that resolution, isn't he? Eternal samaha. It lasts for a long time. And when he is satisfied, then that resolution, when it arises again, he comes back here, and taking his past samskaras, he makes him sit up and takes him further. And he starts to go to God. So, time cannot damage him, it cannot suppress him, it cannot destroy him. But it cannot damage it. He keeps the same resolution. On the contrary, it becomes stronger. And it becomes powerful. Just as Bharatji's resolution was in the body of a king, when he came into the body of Jadbharat, now no Maya can suppress that resolution. When he came into the body of Jadbharat, he had that same resolution. Nothing else. But then no one could suppress him. And if one loses to the mind, one still becomes a yogabhrashta, and then, whether in one birth, or two births, or many births, ultimately one becomes an ekantik bhakta bhakta Devotee of Bhagvãn. A follower of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → But the effort he made does not get lost. Therefore, a wise person, for the sake of his own welfare, must surely bear enmity with the mind. It is like this. With the mind, suppressing the mind a little, what is God's intention? What is God's mission? What is the intention and mission of God's true devotee? His firm connection with him. To God's devotee. One who is benevolent should do so. But do not listen to the mind. Therefore, a wise person, for the sake of his own welfare, must surely bear enmity with the mind. Then, even if he conquers the mind, it is good. Infinite fruit. But disinterest in what? Obstinacy, not to insist on one's own mind. One must insist on this. To connect with God's resolution, that is the insistence. Disinterest means not to be obstinate. The fruit of wisdom is that obstinacy should disappear. And if there is firm resolve, he always remains in firm resolve, it is written, isn't it, Dhyeyswami says. He remains in firm resolve. Always. He remains in firm resolve. He should be boosted daily. If it goes common, then no. When the car is running, it should not just run, it should make a 'bhurr bhurr' sound. It should roar every morning. When they stand up and hold the handle, what do they do first? First, he revs it up a lot. So what does he do and how does he walk properly? So, every morning, he makes a roaring sound. Therefore, a wise person, for the sake of his own welfare, must surely bear enmity with the mind. Then, even if he conquers the mind, it is good. And if he loses to the mind, he will still become a yogabhrashta. And if he loses to the mind, he will still become a yogabhrashta, and ultimately that is good. Therefore, one who desires welfare must surely bear enmity with the mind. AI translation of the Gujarati transcript above, produced in the same pass that transcribed the audio, one English segment per Gujarati segment. 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