Mac-cittā mad mad Arrogance. Tap to open in glossary → My devotees, keeping their chitta in me, joining their pranavrutti in me, explaining my mahima to each other, and constantly talking about my katha-varta, remain satisfied and experience bliss. How they perform my bhajan bhajan Worship. Tap to open in glossary → shlok shlok A verse from shãstras. Tap to open in glossary → And how the culmination of bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → ...chitta is taken to mean the mind. Keep your chitta in me. Earlier, it was said, '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 → mad mad Arrogance. Tap to open in glossary → mad mad Arrogance. Tap to open in glossary → Meaning '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 → The chitta of Bhagwan's devotee never goes anywhere leaving Bhagwan. It always remains deeply absorbed in Bhagwan. One is to join oneself to Bhagwan, and the other is to join the chitta to Bhagwan. What is the difference between joining oneself to Bhagwan and joining the chitta to Bhagwan, joining the mind to Bhagwan? What is the difference between 'I joined Bhagwan' and 'my mind joined Bhagwan'? If one joins their aham, then it is said 'I joined', and if one just remembers... If the feeling of being Bhagwan's servant becomes firm within oneself, then that is said to be the joining of one's aham. And 'I am worldly, or I am so-and-so, so-and-so, but I remember Bhagwan.' Even as a worldly person, one can remember Bhagwan. So that is said to be only the chitta being joined. When one's aham joins Bhagwan—the meaning of aham joining is that a firm sense of being a servant of Bhagwan must be accepted in the jiva. 'I am Bhagwan's servant, I am His disciple.' Any relationship with Him must become firm. Then he himself, the jiva, is said to be joined. One is to join oneself to Bhagwan, and the other is to join the chitta to Bhagwan. Where one is attached to Bhagwan with the feeling 'I belong to Bhagwan', there the chitta, buddhi buddhi 1) Intellect. Intelligence. 2) One of the four antah-karans, with the functions of consolidating thoughts, making decisions and resolutions, forming beliefs, or discriminating. It possesses the knowledge of all objects and is also the reason for the specific knowledge which all of the indriyas possess. Its inherent features are doubts, belief, sleep and memory. Tap to open in glossary → If there is a company, a small company, or some business, and the owner comes and sits at the shop, and a servant sits at the shop, what is the difference between the two? Huh? The other is only physically joined. The servant does most of the work, right? The other just sits; the owner just sits. Still, who is joined to the shop? The owner is... because his aham is joined. And the other's only hands and feet are joined. Therefore, the joining of aham is more important. So, although 'mad mad Arrogance. Tap to open in glossary → 'Mac-cittā mad mad Arrogance. Tap to open in glossary → If the servant is told, 'You speak of the mahima of this shop, of our goods.' And the owner is explaining the understanding of the goods to the other, does that make a difference or not? Huh? 'Bodhayantaḥ parasparam' like that. They explain to each other. 'Bodhayantaḥ' means they give knowledge, right? They explain to each other. What? They explain to me. They explain to me; one explains that Bhagwan is like this, and the other explains that Bhagwan is like this. But when does that happen? It happens if one has joined their aham, otherwise 'I will explain to others'. The servant is... ...he is working here today, and tomorrow he works at another job, so he will have to explain someone else's goods. He will have to explain a third person's goods. His jiva is joined, 'mad mad Arrogance. Tap to open in glossary → Prana, for example, the mind is joined, that is fine, that it remembers Him. 'Mac-cittā' means remembering Bhagwan. But how do we know that the prana is joined? Joining of prana... Huh? It joins others? More than that, what is the movement of prana? What is the function of prana? Huh? To sustain life. And to perform all movements is called the movement of prana. The movements of hands, feet, ears, nose, on what basis do they happen? If prana departs? If prana has become weak, say if one has fasted on Ekadashi? Then the movements become weak. So, that means 'mad mad Arrogance. 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 → mad mad Arrogance. Tap to open in glossary → Where one is attached to Bhagwan with the feeling 'I belong to Bhagwan', there the chitta, buddhi buddhi 1) Intellect. Intelligence. 2) One of the four antah-karans, with the functions of consolidating thoughts, making decisions and resolutions, forming beliefs, or discriminating. It possesses the knowledge of all objects and is also the reason for the specific knowledge which all of the indriyas possess. Its inherent features are doubts, belief, sleep and memory. Tap to open in glossary → All the actions of all the senses automatically attach to Bhagwan. As long as one's aham is not joined, with the feeling 'Come on, I am a servant of Swaminarayan Bhagwan, I am a servant of this sanstha'—if that has not occurred in his mind, then we hold our own independent personality. Until then, it is not proper. All the senses and antahkaran do not join. Does the master of the house need to be joined to the house? That is why Gunatitanand Swami has said that some people in this 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 → Yes, they are like laborers, like elephants, like guests, like sons, like the master of the house, they are cousins themselves. So what is the difference among all of them? If they are like laborers, they have the target of a laborer. Labor, huh? To finish the day. Somehow or other. Not by working. So we have to see whether we are laborers or what. Once one task is finished, does a laborer know how to take up another task? If there is an owner, he makes him take it up, like 'now do this'. Once one seva of ours is finished, do we take up another seva? That is why they are called laborers. If someone else makes us take it up, and we take it, then until then we are called laborers, right? Second. There is no owner there either. His jiva is not joined. That 'I belong to Bhagwan, I belong to the sanstha, I belong to so-and-so'—such a jiva is not joined. 'Mad Mad Arrogance. Tap to open in glossary → Mad Mad Arrogance. Tap to open in glossary → 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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