Swami, this shanti that occurs, like shanti similar to nirvikalpa samadhi, so shanti is something expected, because in nirvikalpa samadhi, then The other name for sukha is shanti. The other name for sukha is shanti. But not worldly, the name for God's sukha is shanti. Āpūryamāṇamachala pratiṣṭhaṁ samudramāpaḥ praviśanti yadvat tadvat kāmā praviśanti yasmin sa śāntimāpnoti nakāmakāmī. Nakāmakāmī sa śāntimāpnoti nakāmakāmī. If someone wishes for shanti by holding worldly desires, then it won't happen. Eṣā brāhmī sthiti sthiti 1) The level of the spiritual state of a bhakta. 2) Sustenance of the world. Tap to open in glossary → So, by developing affection for God's lotus feet, and Maharaj has said in that, that more than developing affection for God's feet, if one finds a staunch bhakta bhakta Devotee of Bhagvãn. A follower of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → More than doing it for God and attaining shanti, if one does it for this (bhakta bhakta Devotee of Bhagvãn. A follower of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → When sukha related to God is attained, we call that shanti. When convenience comes, we call that sukha. And behind sukha, there is raga. There is priti. If sukha related to God comes, he gets priti. And if priti occurs, he attains shanti. If affection for God occurs, he attains shanti. Narsinh Mehta had no udvega about anything. Even if any God came, they could not cause him udvega. Even if God Himself came, He could not cause him udvega. So, some of God's (devotees) get udvega, thinking why doesn't this person get udvega? So, one who has developed affection for God does not get udvega, does not attain shanti. But Swami, when one develops atmabuddhi with God's bhakta bhakta Devotee of Bhagvãn. A follower of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → So that udvega, at the time of that udvega, he does not have shanti. There is a division of udvega, of udvega. Due to whom did the udvega arise? Did it arise because our self-interest is damaged, or did it arise because his self-interest is damaged? If udvega arises because our self-interest is damaged, that udvega becomes the cause of dukha in the world. And if the bhakta bhakta Devotee of Bhagvãn. A follower of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → Even if that udvega remains, it gives supreme shanti. Its nature is such. Swami, even if there is atmabuddhi and affection for such bhaktas of God, due to ups and downs in worldly activities, there remains something like udvega, and Maharaj has said that he continuously experiences something like nirvikalpa shanti, so why would that happen? Gunatitanand Swami has said that externally, sukha and dukha do come. 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