What is the question in the Vachanamrut? If the prana is controlled and one attains nirvikalpa samadhi, then they attain ekantik-ness, gunatit-ness, and ekantik-ness. It is such that by becoming gunatit, one becomes ekantik. What happens if the prana is not controlled? Then does he attain ekantik-ness or not? What does ekantik-ness mean? Suresh Bhai, Suresh Bhai, Take that chair and place it here. What is ekantik-ness? Place it here, here. God's What is the meaning of ekantik, brother? Antah eva ekantikah. Anta iti antikah, bala eva balakah, like that. Is there any other difference in that? Ekam eva antah yasya sah. Only one who has the final decision, here the decision came. Only one who has the final decision to connect. I can connect here as well, and I can connect here as well, then? It cannot be called ekantik. I can connect everywhere a little bit, then it cannot be called ekantik. How does ekantik-ness come? By becoming gunatit, one becomes ekantik. If one detaches from the world, then they can connect somewhere in one place. If one detaches from the world, they can connect in one place. In the world, one cannot connect in one place anywhere. The nature of the world is such that everywhere one has to struggle. If one struggles everywhere, then they do not become ekantik. By what does ekantik-ness come? Huh? Then by what does one become gunatit? By what does one become gunatit? What came in this? By having conviction, gunatit-ness and ekantik-ness come. By having conviction in God. It does not come by samadhi, meaning it does not come by spiritual endeavors. Gunatit-ness does not come by spiritual endeavors, by other spiritual endeavors. By what does it come? It comes by conviction. What does conviction mean? That the one I have met is mine, like that. In that, with my sense of belonging, to connect. To connect with my sense of belonging. But not only that, if one is connected with my sense of belonging, then is it said that conviction is attained, and by becoming gunatit, is it said that he has become ekantik? Then when is it complete? Connected with my sense of belonging. Not like that, ekantik and my sense of belonging must be attained, like that. To have my sense of belonging exclusively, mine too. If one has kept saying mine, mine, mine, mine in other places too, in two or three places, then? If one is connected in one place with exclusive devotion, then they become gunatit. And that too in God. If one has connected elsewhere in the world, this is the only place where everyone is included in one place. Gunatit-ness is also included and ekantik-ness is also included. And everything is included. Therefore, in God, with exclusive devotion, there should be a sense of belonging. That I have no one else besides Him. If He has someone else besides me, then let it be. But I have no one else besides Him. Then, by identifying with exclusive devotion, and what did Maharaj say in this? Atra sargo visargascha sthanam poshanamutayah | Manvantareshanukatha nirodho muktirashrayah || By the ten characteristics, the form of God which is worthy of knowing. In that, if one has conviction with ekantik devotion, then they attain ekantik-ness. If one does not have conviction with ekantik devotion, then they do not attain ekantik-ness and they do not attain gunatit-ness. Conviction with ekantik devotion means I do not have to go anywhere else now, I have to go only to Him. And besides Him, I have no world at all. Then it is said to be conviction with ekantik devotion, like that. If conviction is attained with ekantik devotion, then ekantik-ness comes. If nirvikalpa samadhi is attained with ekantik devotion, then ekantik-ness does not come. In samadhi, there is no ekantik-ness at all. In mere samadhi, there is no ekantik-ness; if there is samadhi with conviction, then ekantik-ness comes. Samadhi is just detaching from the world, that much is true. If that is proper, like that. Otherwise, when they return from samadhi, they attach to the world. Therefore, samadhi does not have that capability. As much as with open eyes one connects with God, with a sense of belonging, connects with ekantik sense of belonging, then it detaches them from the world as well and also gives ekantik-ness. Otherwise, ekantik-ness, in samadhi Maharaj says if one has attained samadhi and sees there, they desire to see new things. How is this compared to that? One desires to test everything. Why did it come like this compared to this? Is this good or how is this? Such thoughts of good and bad occur, keep occurring, so what does that mean? What does it mean that thoughts occur? There is no identification. Maharaj did not say in this to just have conviction. He said to have conviction by identifying. On what basis to identify? What is a person's identity? What is a person's identity? By their actions. Actions like that. If there is no stability in work, then there is no stability in the person. One whose work has no stability, how to believe there is stability in that person? Huh? Therefore, to identify God too, identify Him by His actions. Atra sargo visargascha sthanam poshanamutayah | Manvantareshanukatha nirodho muktirashrayah || If one is capable of giving these many things, then take refuge in Him. If one is capable of doing these many works, then take refuge in Him. Identify Him by these nine characteristics. At least He can do those nine things, then take refuge in Him. To take refuge means to have conviction in Him. And if one has conviction in Him properly, then? They become gunatit. And they become ekantik. If one connects with Him with ekantik devotion, Then they become ekantik. Again, if they connect with another, they do not. If others are bekantik (not ekantik) and one connects with them, then how can this one become ekantik? What? If they are bekantik and one connects with them, then how can they become ekantik? They become bekantik only. Come this side, come this side. If they are bekantik, or if they are ekantik and this one who connects with them is bekantik, even then they do not become gunatit. And if that other one is bekantik, even then this one does not become ekantik. Both ekantiks must be ekantik. Then they become ekantik. And they become gunatit. Meaning the world detaches from them, otherwise the world does not detach from them. If one is connected with a bekantik, how can the world detach? He too becomes bekantik in return. Huh? We say in this that to connect means ekantik. And in this, it is said that by 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 → Meaning only if there is 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 it is not that whoever has them becomes so, either. In them, that qualification comes. Maharaj says if there is 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 if there is any deficiency in that, then they enter into others, not in this. Like that. But if there is 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 → then they must have the resolve to enter into Vasudev. They must have the resolve to connect with Vasudev. If there is refuge, and then they have dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → then they are used for the pleasure of God. They have to be used, like that. Dharma Dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → yojakastatra durlabhah, like that. The yojak (one who utilizes) the yojak, what is his intention? You do have wealth, but what is the intention of the user? There is a car, but where is the driver's desire to take it? The car does not go on its own, saying I want to go this way or I want to go that way. The car runs according to the driver's intention. So all these spiritual endeavors are like that, like a spade and shovel. Where to dig with the spade and shovel, does the spade and shovel know? Like, let's go, holding his arm and taking him, saying dig me here. It is not like that. So how does ekantik-ness come, like that? If one connects with ekantik devotion, then ekantik-ness comes. Our virtues are, how do we use them so that they bring us ekantik-ness? So if we connect with one who is ekantik, then our virtues are used in ekantik devotion. If our virtues are used by us on our own, then they do not become ekantik. We used them on our own, even if we are good. We use them on our own, in the mind, if one uses them willfully, then they do not become ekantik. Without becoming ekantik, can one identify an ekantik? Yes, they can. Without studying to be a graduate, can one identify whether this is proper or not? If we want to hire a teacher for a seventh-grade student, and have them give a demonstration, then do we ask the student or do we ask the teacher, how are you, like that? Huh? After taking the demonstration, whom do we ask? And what would those students be studying? They have to examine that other one, whether this is proper or not. So according to whose guidance do we go after the demonstration? Huh? So do they identify him? They get a superficial perception that this one is not capable of doing anything for us. That is called superficial perception. Similarly, if there is desire for liberation, then they get a superficial perception of the ekantik, of ekantik-ness. Then they go deeper, and if there is curiosity, then they go deeper, then they get an accurate perception. Then they understand what accurate ekantik-ness is. And if there is desire for liberation, then they do understand that my ekantik-ness, ekantik-ness, ekantik-ness, like that, that this one cannot be called so. This one, in this one, it seems there is something worthy of being called so. They do not understand accurately what it is. Just as those students do. What is his deficiency, whether there is a deficiency of knowledge or a deficiency of method or that they do not understand, the students. But they understand this much, that he is not suitable for us. And this one is very suitable. Based on such indications, they decide. Yes. And if it is so, it is not wrong. It is not wrong at all, like that, they get a superficial perception. If they have some knowledge, superficial knowledge, then they get a superficial perception. If they know what is ekantik and what cannot be called ekantik, who is called bekantik and who is called ekantik, then if they stay together, they get a superficial perception of it. If they get a superficial perception, then from that, if they have more curiosity, then? They get an accurate perception. So it is not that because they have not become ekantik themselves, they do not identify the ekantik devotion. It is not that because they have not become ekantik, they do not identify the ekantik devotion. They must have a strong desire to become ekantik. They must have curiosity. Then they immediately begin to categorize. How much power there is in thoughts related to God. The kings and emperors, they used to have a strong resolve, that I want to meet God. Then even if they were the emperor of the earth and had a sovereign kingdom, then at that very minute, they would detach from it. Just like that snake sheds its skin and leaves, they would leave like that. By what did that happen? Mere resolve. That I want to connect with God with ekantik devotion. And in that, this is an obstacle to me. Such a resolve would occur, to connect with God, they have not connected yet. Bharatji was the emperor of the entire earth. And he felt that I want to connect with God, so immediately, this disconnected. In just one minute. Disconnected. There is so much power in the resolve for God. If one makes a resolve related to God, the resolve has so much power. Nehabhikramanaso'sti pratyavayo na vidyate | svalpamapyasya dharmasya trayate mahato bhayat || It is said so. Praptayam, that sthitva'syamantakale'pi brahmanirvanamrichchhati | If they got a strong resolve for Brahma-nirvana, that no, no, in this birth I want to attain that. Then sthitva'syamantakale'pi even if the resolve occurred at the end of life, still they do not get settled anywhere else after that. If a strong resolve has occurred to attain ekantik-ness, to connect with Him with ekantik devotion, then they do not get settled anywhere else and go there only. Who is the greatest obstacle in attaining ekantik devotion? Maharaj said pride and resolve. Resolves are of two types. One, contrary resolve and one favorable resolve. So the contrary resolve is the main obstacle in attaining ekantik devotion, by that. What Maharaj has called samadhi, Adhi means mental distress. Pain of the mind. For the mind to stay in one place, it experiences much pain in that. To keep smelling different flowers like that and to keep tasting different tastes, the mind enjoys that very much, such is the nature of the mind. So now if you bind it in one place, saying brother, you must do only as this one says, 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