Swami asked another question, "What are the characteristics of a person with intense faith?" Then Shriji Maharaj said, "One who has intense faith, when he wants to come for the darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → or wants to listen to the discourses of God, or wants to perform the mansi puja of God, and so on, whatever actions related to God, to perform them, he performs his bodily activities like bathing with great haste." "And if we want to circulate some news by writing a letter, he becomes eager to do that as well. And even if he is a great man man Mind. One of the four antah-karans, with the function of (pronounced mun) generating thoughts and desires, and governing all of the indriyas. Tap to open in glossary → darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → One who has such characteristics should be known as having intense faith." What was said? What came up? Whose characteristics are mentioned? Of a person with intense faith. These are the characteristics of a person with intense faith. What characteristic was mentioned? What characteristic was mentioned? What are the characteristics of a person with intense faith? [inaudible] What does that mean? What is the meaning of that? [inaudible] Suppose we go running saying we want to go to Vadtal for darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → we want to go to Gadhada for darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → and we do not stop even if someone tries to stop us, then do we have intense faith or not? Right? The characteristic mentioned here fits, doesn't it? That one cannot be suppressed. "I will definitely go." So, can that be called intense faith or not? Read the text again. Then Akhandanand Swami asked another question, "What are the characteristics of a person with intense faith?" Then Shriji Maharaj said, "One who has intense faith, when he wants to come for the darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → Now, we don't run much to listen to discourses. But for darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → or if I want to go for the darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → "Hey brother, go and bring the car." And we run quickly. "Pankaj, you bring this car." "And hurry up, don't be late." "We should reach there by quarter to three." So, does that mean we have intense faith? We are focused on darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → We have so much eagerness for darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → So, can it be called intense faith or not? Does Dhyay Swami have such eagerness or not? See how much eagerness there is for the darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → So, can it be called that or not? What do you say? It cannot be called that? Then what is said here? What do you say? Can it be called that or not? Right? But the car runs, where do others run? Can anyone else reach by running? To Gopinathji Maharaj. Even Titodo cannot reach from here, so how can one reach from Rajkot? One cannot reach Gopinathji Maharaj from Rajkot like that. Right? If the car runs? Then is it not called intense faith? If others run? If we run, then it is called intense faith. What? Read the text. So what to say? No conclusion was reached about intense faith. Yes? What to say? Then what should be called intense faith? If we run. Now, if we run from here, we would die. So is it called faith or is it called complete suicide? Yes? If we ran from here, with full speed. Then is it said that we committed suicide or is it called faith? What is it called? Suicide or faith? What is the matter? Tell me what the matter is. If all the characteristics mentioned there match, then it is called faith. Even if all characteristics match, it is still not faith. Even if all characteristics match, it is still not faith. This happens at the cost of body-consciousness, reducing body-consciousness, and as Maharaj said, in bodily activities one hastens. Hastening in bodily activities means if it is done by setting aside body-consciousness, then sitting in a car, where do we face hardship? So why should we leave any path? And why should we leave any obstacle? Is there any hardship? Is there any hardship? It causes hardship to body-consciousness. To listen to this discourse of God, it causes hardship to body-consciousness. If one crushes that body-consciousness and does it at its cost, then he has intense faith. Just because there is convenience and we do it, that alone is not counted as faith. His body-consciousness must decrease, meaning he crushes his body-consciousness for darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → And if body-consciousness is not crushed, and we just do darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → Then it is not called faith. It cannot be called intense faith. It must be done at the cost of body-consciousness. At the cost of the five sensory pleasures, at the cost of the body, if one does it in that way and does not give up his resolve, then he has faith. Read the text again. Then Akhandanand Swami asked another question, "What are the characteristics of a person with intense faith?" Then Shriji Maharaj said, "One who has intense faith, when he wants to come for the darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → That refers to bodily convenience activities like bathing, done quickly. He abandons activities of bodily convenience. And instead, he does this. Instead, he does this. Shastriji Maharaj went to Badrinarayan on foot. We have been to Pulhashram twice. Straight by flight. 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