Swaminarayan Hare, Swaminarayan Hare. On the day of Samvat Samvat The calendar established by Indian emperor Vikramaditya of Ujjain following his victory 56 BCE. It is a lunar calendar based on ancient Hindu tradition. The Vikram Samvat calendar is 56.7 years ahead of the solar Gregorian calendar. The calendar most commonly used is the Kãrtiki Samvat, which begins on the first day of Kãrtik. However, the Vachanãmrut is written using the Ashãdhi Samvat, which begins on the first day of Ãshãdh. Tap to open in glossary → Chaitra Chaitra Tenth month of the Ãshãdhi Samvat year, normally falling between March and April. Tap to open in glossary → khes khes Piece of cloth that can be worn as a shawl to cover the upper body, or worn as a dhoti to cover the lower body. Tap to open in glossary → Then Shriji Maharaj said, "The sacred scriptures like Shrimad Bhagavatam are true. And whatever is said in those scriptures happens in that very way, but not in any other way. Look, in Shrimad Bhagavatam, the abode of Kali is said to be in gold, so we do not even like to look at that gold. And just as gold is binding, beauty is also binding. Because, when there is a beautiful woman and she comes into the assembly, no matter how patient a person is, his sight cannot help but be drawn to her beauty. Therefore, gold and women, these two are extremely binding. And the bondage of these two objects does not occur only when one knows the pure Chaitanya Chaitanya Consciousness. The substance of the ãtmã. A higher consciousness that is beyond the physical world, which is jad and mãyik. It is indestructible. Tap to open in glossary → Krishna Krishna 1) An avatãr of Bhagvãn. He incarnated in the svarup of a cowherd. This is considered to be a greater avatãr than the others, as Shree Krishna possessed all of the powers of Bhagvãn, whereas other avatãrs possessed less power. Shree Krishna conveyed the message of love and humanity to the world. Also, He recited the epic poem, the Bhagvad Geetã, to Arjun in which He stated: ‘Whenever dharma declines and adharma increases, I shall incarnate myself as a human to save the holy, to destroy the sin of the sinner, and to establish dharma. I come into being from yug to yug’. 2) In the Vachanãmrut, Shreeji Mahãrãj also uses the name “Shree Krishna” to describe Bhagvãn Purushottam Nãrãyan. Tap to open in glossary → Thus ends the Vachanamrut. In this way, the thirtieth Vachanamrut of the Gadhada Middle Section was delivered. Gold... what came in the Vachanamrut? Whatever is said in the scriptures like Shrimad Bhagavatam is all true, and just as gold is binding, beauty is also binding. And he who believes himself to be Brahman, beyond Prakriti-Purusha, and becoming Brahman-realized, serves and worships Parabrahman, then it does not bind him, otherwise it cannot help but bind him. In this, it is said that there is a seal. The abode of Kali. What does that mean? What does the abode of Kali mean? Klesh. Huh? Klesh. It causes quarrels. So here, our sadhus do not have any wealth, yet why do quarrels happen? Huh? We were talking about quarrels among sadhus, and they happen, even though there is nothing there. Even if it is not direct, it is indirect. In Kali, it is said that Kali resides in gold. It is said in the sacred scriptures that Kali resides in gold. God, that is, it is said in the Bhagavatam. Kaliyuga asked, "Tell me my place of residence." He asked for a boon from Parikshit, "Show me my places of residence." "Go, reside where violence occurs. Reside where theft and gambling occur." "Not like that, Maharaj, show me something proper, something good, now that the times have become latest, show me the latest." So what was shown as the latest? Huh? Gold and women. Are there always quarrels where there is gold? Are there quarrels where there is gold, and do they stop where there is no gold? There are quarrels where gold is given importance. It is not that there are quarrels where there is gold, and they stop where there is no gold. Quarrels happen where there is attachment to gold. Quarrels happen where gold is given importance. Importance can be there even if it is not in hand, and it may not be there even if it is in hand. Like that. That is, in whose mind the importance of gold has entered, the importance of gold means the importance of property. Property is accumulated, property is not enjoyed much. Enjoyment is of the five senses. What is enjoyed is of the five senses. Property is accumulated. More. "We have this much property and we have this much property." He would not be enjoying all that property. He would be enjoying the five senses. So enjoyment is of the five senses, and property is for accumulation. What happens to gold? It is accumulated. Even in accumulating gold, the pleasure that comes in it does not come anywhere else. So it is accumulated, and accumulation is the root of quarrels. "Do I have more accumulation or do you have more accumulation?" That is the fun. What other fun is there in accumulation? The final sum is the fun of accumulation. Who has the larger sum? There is a lot to think about in this, Maharaj has said, "Does he who has no relation with wealth have any klesh?" To all our sadhus, Maharaj Gunatitanand Swami said that all sadhus have just become happy, so there is nothing now. They have no klesh. They have nothing like that in their minds. What is that called? There would be no dissatisfaction. Nothing like that remains for them because they have come after renouncing all objects, so do they have any klesh or not? They have renounced both gold and women. Both gold and women are renounced. Now does any klesh happen or not? Does it happen or not? Klesh does happen. So what would they have? There is attachment to gold, meaning there is attachment to wealth and property, and that attachment to accumulation causes klesh. Attachment to necessity does not cause that much klesh. If there is a poor 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 → So what is that called? It is called suffering. It is not called klesh. Klesh is the root of suffering too. Suffering comes from klesh. It is not that klesh comes from suffering. Is it that klesh comes from suffering? There is suffering and there is klesh too. Suppose you hurt your finger and you feel pain, does that mean you have klesh? It is suffering. 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. 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