Then Shriji Maharaj said, "Whoever knows how to ask and answer questions, ask one question each." Then Muktanand Swami asked, "Oh Maharaj, what is the extraordinary cause of moksha?" Then Shriji Maharaj said, "Knowledge of God's form and knowing God's greatness are the two extraordinary causes of moksha." Then Muktanand Swami again asked, "What is the nature of the affection one has for God?" Then Shriji Maharaj said, "The nature of affection is that there should be no kind of thought in that affection." And when one loves by considering qualities, that love breaks when one sees faults. Therefore, let affection remain as it is, but do not repeatedly establish or remove it by thinking. And one should have affection for God ignorantly, and the affection that is done by considering qualities is not trustworthy. Therefore, one should have affection for God just as one has for one's bodily relatives. And that affection is called ignorant affection, and the affection that arises from knowing the greatness of God is of a different kind, know this. Then Shivanand Swami asked, "Even though there is a desire to remain 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 → Then Shriji Maharaj said, "Until one develops aversion towards a nature that causes obstacles 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 → And how has that nature been fully recognized as an enemy? There is an example: if a 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 → 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 → And he gets ready to cut off his head. Because the relationship with a brother is greater than with a friend. Similarly, if one's own nature is such that it breaks one's current state and turns one away from 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 → Then he does not have complete affection for 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 → And if one has as much affection for 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 → Why? Because the jiva is extremely powerful. Because the mind and senses are all the field, and the jiva is its knower of the field. Therefore, whatever it does, happens. Thus, the 57th Vachanamrut of Gadhada First Chapter was completed. Swami Swami asked a question. What is the extraordinary cause of salvation? Maharaj replied. Knowledge of God's form and God's greatness. These two are the extraordinary causes of moksha. And then Muktanand Swami asked. What is the nature of affection? Then Maharaj replied that If affection is formed due to qualities, it will never last, because when one sees faults, the affection breaks. Saral Swami is here, meaning If there is a nature, then it does not keep it like a relative. Brahm Brahm 1) The dhãm of Bhagvãn. It is eternal, complete with all gun, luminous, and flawless. Also called Akshar, or Akshar-Brahm, or Akshardhãm. 2) Fourth of the five eternal entities, which transcends everything except Purushottam (jeev, ishvar, Mãyã, and Brahm, and Parbrahm). Tap to open in glossary → Do not establish or remove affection; let it remain as it was before. What is the extraordinary cause of moksha? What is moksha? Huh? What is moksha called, brother? Saral Swami is there, or What is moksha? Huh? Sadguru Sadguru A great sant. Tap to open in glossary → To be free from the world. Huh? To be free from the world and go to God. To be free from the world is called detachment. What is moksha? To attain God. To be freed from the cycle of birth and death and to reach God is called moksha. That's right. What is its extraordinary cause? Knowledge of God's form and greatness. What is the difference between form and greatness? What is the form and what is the greatness? What, brother Swami? What is the form and what is the greatness? It was said, wasn't it? That is the extraordinary cause of moksha. It is the knowledge of God's form and the knowledge of God's greatness. That is the extraordinary cause of moksha. So what is the form and what is the greatness? Have you come to attain moksha or not? Or we don't see it. The devotees of 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? Greatness means knowing the greatness of God. To know God as greater. And what is the form? Form means the qualities of God. What, brother, of the form? Form means knowing the personality of God. And greatness means God's splendor or His glory. Who and how, like that? Yes. Greatness means the difference that comes from comparison, that is greatness. Rupee and dollar. What is the difference between the two? How many dollars? 65 times. 65 Yes. Yes. So that is called the greatness of the dollar. It is said to be 65 times, so that is its greatness. Compares both. And there is a difference in between. That is called its glory. So what is God's greatness? God is not like other avatars. Not like anyone else. Compared to that, God's qualities, God's happiness. That is not like others. No. Other avatars, other liberated souls. The objects of this world. It's not like that. From that Unique. It is different. It is infinitely different. Not even one. No measure can be found. Whatever is glorious and powerful Whatever And powerful That, that Know that it has arisen from a spark of My splendor. The world is situated in a single part of it. All these glories are from just one part of one hair of ours. My greatness is such that it cannot even be described as that much. That is called greatness. And what is the form? And what is the knowledge of the form? What is the form? Maharaj said that form means murti murti 1) Sacred idol of Bhagvãn used to offer worship. There are eight types of murtis that can be worshipped: stone, wood, metal, earth, engraved or drawn, sand, gems, and mental. 2) The form of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → Form means murti murti 1) Sacred idol of Bhagvãn used to offer worship. There are eight types of murtis that can be worshipped: stone, wood, metal, earth, engraved or drawn, sand, gems, and mental. 2) The form of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → Then what is the knowledge of the murti murti 1) Sacred idol of Bhagvãn used to offer worship. There are eight types of murtis that can be worshipped: stone, wood, metal, earth, engraved or drawn, sand, gems, and mental. 2) The form of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → According to Vedanta, The identity of the form. What is the original thing? What is the original thing? And then what is the changed, or duplicate, or that thing? So what is the original form of God? The original form is in Dham. Then how can one recognize it? This is the original form. Maharaj said so in the Vachanamrut. In the Vachanamrut of Karyani, it is said that God is the smallest of the small and the greatest of the great. So what is the original form? Which is the human form. He is sitting in front of you. Maharaj was sitting in front at that time. That is, it is sitting in front of you. Born in the house of Dharma Dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, 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 → And went to Dham in Gadhada. That is the original form. Huh? One should have knowledge of that. How is it, like that. What all is contained in it? One should have knowledge of that. If someone has written a check. But doesn't know how to read it. Then he will say that this is a check. But how would he know what is in it? How would he know how many rupees and how much wealth is in it? Does it have glory until then? Even if it's a five-rupee check. And it could be five crores. Are both the same or is there some difference? They look the same. Then what should one understand about its greatness? Its identity. Huh? One should know what is contained in it; that is its identity. Then it is called the identity of the form. And the identity of the form and its greatness, both are extraordinary causes of moksha. If there is no recognition of the original form. Then one makes mistakes with others. If one doesn't know what is contained in it. Then he doesn't get joy from it. If there is a five-rupee check and a five-crore check, both are the same. So is the joy from the check or from what is contained in it? From what is contained. The joy comes from what is contained in it. That is its identity. What is contained in Swaminarayan Bhagwan? And what is contained in all other places? If one does not recognize it, then extraordinary moksha does not occur. The extraordinary cause of moksha. Then we call it Maharaj's identity. Maharaj is the original form. We don't need to go to Dham to see it here. The son of Dharma Dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → Is called the causal form. The saints have sung that. The son of Dharma Dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → God is the original form. 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