2. One should not sit with one leg over the other in the presence of the Guru Guru A teacher. He will guide you on the path of kalyãn. Tap to open in glossary → 3. One should not sit with one leg over the other in the presence of the Guru Guru A teacher. He will guide you on the path of kalyãn. Tap to open in glossary → 4. The Guru Guru A teacher. He will guide you on the path of kalyãn. Tap to open in glossary → Guru Guru A teacher. He will guide you on the path of kalyãn. Tap to open in glossary → 5. One should not sit in front of a sannyasi. One should not sit with one leg over the other in front of a very virtuous person. "Gurudeva Nrupantike" is written here, and the Guru Guru A teacher. He will guide you on the path of kalyãn. Tap to open in glossary → Guru Guru A teacher. He will guide you on the path of kalyãn. Tap to open in glossary → 6. Deva is not included here. The King was already mentioned in the previous shloka. One more thing is written here. 7. But one should not sit with one leg over the other in front of the remaining ones either. One should not sit with the knees bound. Thus, one should not sit with one leg over the other, meaning placing the left leg on the right thigh or the right leg on the left thigh, in the presence of the Guru Guru A teacher. He will guide you on the path of kalyãn. Tap to open in glossary → 8. One should not sit with one leg over the other. For those in Padmasana, if both legs are placed one over the other, there is no problem; that is not the same. If one sits in Padmasana, there is no problem. But sitting with one leg over the other is considered a bit awkward. 9. It seems insulting to the other person, so one should not do that. Here, in the original shloka, the word "ek padam" is used. Therefore, "noro krutva padam ekam." 10. One should not sit with one leg over the other, meaning placing one leg on the other thigh. "Uru" means thigh. One should not sit with one leg on the other thigh. Here, in the original shloka, the word "ek padam" is used. 11. Therefore, it means placing one leg on the thigh of the other leg. If the soles of both feet are placed on the thighs of the other leg, there is no fault. That becomes Padmasana. 12. So, one can sit in Padmasana. Such an asana, Siddhasana or Padmasana, is not considered an insult to anyone. But this is considered an insult to elders. 13. It is considered an insult to people of great importance. Because that way of sitting is called Padmasana. Even in an assembly, one should not sit with one leg placed on the thigh of the other leg. 14. It is said in the Smriti that one should not sit in Virasana in the presence of one's acharya, or any elderly person, etc., or in an assembly. Also, one should not sit with one leg over the other. The characteristic of Virasana is described by Vashishtha Muni Muni Sãdhu. Tap to open in glossary → 15. In our language, it means sitting with the knees inverted. Like this, with one knee on top of the other. Sitting with inverted knees is called Virasana. 16. Virasana, is it? Virasana is also an insult. 17. It was said not to sit. Maharaj, when that Pibek came, he sat sat 1) True. Real. 2) Permanent, imperishable and unchanging. Is unbound by the past, the present, and the future. Tap to open in glossary → sat sat 1) True. Real. 2) Permanent, imperishable and unchanging. Is unbound by the past, the present, and the future. Tap to open in glossary → 18. It looks like preparation for a fight. So, this is an assembly, and there is no fighting to be done here. 19. Sometimes, when Maharaj, that Pibek came, he sat sat 1) True. Real. 2) Permanent, imperishable and unchanging. Is unbound by the past, the present, and the future. Tap to open in glossary → 20. Maharaj said, "I am sitting here, so do whatever you can." So, he did it considering it a fighting position. Here, the assembly is pleased. 21. Or, in front of an elder, or Guru Guru A teacher. He will guide you on the path of kalyãn. Tap to open in glossary → Muni Muni Sãdhu. Tap to open in glossary → 22. Or, one leg is taken back, so it forms a knee, then the other knee is placed on top, and then one sits like that. Or, bending the other leg backward and placing the first leg on its thigh is called Virasana. 23. Furthermore, one should not sit in the presence of the Guru Guru A teacher. He will guide you on the path of kalyãn. Tap to open in glossary → 24. It is said that one should not sit with one's back to Thakorji. Mostly, in all places, such arrangements have been made that Thakorji has a simhasan, and one has to sit in front of it. So, one should be careful not to have one's back directly to Maharaj; one should sit to the side. 25. But there might be a slight difference, if Maharaj is very high and we are sitting low, so when Shastriji Maharaj was there, the assembly used to be in the middle. Swamis used to sit in the middle of the Modis, so these two would sit facing each other and to the side. 26. Like we are sitting now. Thakorji would remain, and there would be a path in the middle. Swami used to hold assemblies like that. 27. But then we made this stage a bit bigger. So, for discourses, first Rajkot had this, then after Rajkot, all this happened, so stages were made directly like that. So, this happens. 28. Otherwise, the assembly used to be like this, to the side. There is an online question. 29. Can one sit on a chair or not? Otherwise, the assembly used to be like this, to the side. If there is some problem, then one should sit. 30. So, in an exception, no one has been forbidden; any exception can be taken. There is an online question: Can one sit on a chair or not? If one can sit properly, then one should sit like that. 31. So, in an exception, no one has been forbidden; any exception can be taken. Then, if someone has knee pain. If someone has back pain. 32. If one can sit properly, then one should sit like that. If someone is old or sick. Then, if someone has knee pain, if someone has back pain, if someone has some other problem. 33. But one should not sit with one's back to 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