Regarding that method, the friendship of the jiva and the mind. Main points: Do not perform bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: 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 → bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: 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 → This Vachanamrut is about the friendship of the jiva and the mind. Maharaj says that the jiva and the mind are very close, bosom friends. They are friends dedicated to each other. Just as milk and water burn for each other, they are such friends. When milk and water are mixed, when milk and water are mixed and placed on fire, the water settles at the bottom of the milk and burns itself, but does not let the milk burn. While the milk also boils over to save the water and extinguishes the fire. Such is the friendship between the jiva and the mind. Generally, actually Maharaj said that such friendship is between the jiva and kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → If anything of kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → There is no friendship between satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → Huh? The friendship of the mind, that is just, the mind is just a face of kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → it has to, oh, blame someone else, that 'this person did this to me.' It has to blame the senses. Why does all this happen? To maintain kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → Maharaj spoke clearly: whatever leans towards the world is all kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → One says, 'we enjoy sense pleasures,' and one says, 'we do not want to enjoy sense pleasures.' So, who is that in those two? Then the sadhus said, 'It is the mind; the one that says to enjoy is the mind, and the one that says no is the jiva.' Maharaj says, 'That is incorrect.' The jiva itself has an eternal friendship with kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → And if it understands this much, then Maharaj says, no one's kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → Those who are fools are more clever. Those who are fools, are they fools or clever? Those who are fools, are they fools or clever? In foolishness, they are indeed clever. In doing foolishness, they are number one. So, those who are fools are more clever. Those who are dull-witted, we say they are dull-witted, but they are not dull-witted; they are very clever. They know how to act dull-witted in such a way that we do not know how. So, if we do not know how, it means they are clever, right? The jiva and kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → In this, Maharaj, in this, Maharaj had not said so, right? Kusang Kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → Maharaj said that to blame the jiva, meaning to blame the mind, is the jiva's foolishness. The fault is not of the mind; the fault is indeed one's own. The fault is not of kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → So, did the mind become the jiva's friend or enemy? This person has made it a friend. Actually, the mind is neither an enemy nor a friend. 'Mana eva manushyānām kāranam bandha-mokshayoh, vishayāsaktam bandhāya nirvishayam muktaye smrutam.' If the mind is free from sense objects, then it becomes helpful in liberation. And if it is attached to sense objects, then it binds the jiva. So, the mind is just an instrument. The mind does not have its own wisdom, its own discrimination. Discrimination belongs to the jiva. So, if the jiva forms a friendship with the mind, Maharaj's meaning of forming a friendship with the mind is that it forms a friendship in kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. Tap to open in glossary → So, the alliance is to be taken, it is not to be taken like that. The jiva has an alliance in weakness. It has friendship with weakness. Such friendship is not there in satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → kusang kusang The association of an evil person. 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