Swaminarayan Hare, Swaminarayan Hare. On the fifth day of the bright half of the month of Shravan Shravan 1) To listen to talks of Bhagvãn through the ears. 2) The term also means the initial intake of gnãn from any of the outer indriyas. In this sense, darshan, intake of gnãn through the eyes, is also considered a form of shravan. However, the intake of gnãn through the process of shravan (listening) must be strengthened with manan (thinking) and nididhyãs (remember) if it is to lead to the sãkshãtkãr (realisation) of that gnãn. Tap to open in glossary → 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 → residing at His quarters. And Shriji Maharaj was wearing all white garments on His body. And He had tied a black-bordered dhotli on His head. And garlands of flowers adorned His neck. And bouquets of flowers were placed on His ears. And flower tassels adorned His head. In front of His lotus face, an assembly of paramhansas and devotees from various regions was seated. Then Shriji Maharaj spoke to all the devotees, "In this world, the relationship with one's family members is like a cactus tree, or a branch of a banyan or pipal tree, which, if cut from one place and planted in another, grows into a tree. But if a mango or neem tree is cut once, it does not take root again. Similarly, the relationship with others besides family members is like a mango tree. Once it..." Has anyone seen a cactus tree? Yes? Then it is said to be a lot. Have you, have you seen it or not? Cactus? Yes? Wild. It is wild. Yes. Okay. "Similarly, the relationship with others besides family members is like a mango tree. Once it is cut, it does not take root again. And the relationship with family members is like a cactus and a banyan tree. Even if it is cut, lying on the ground, it cannot help but sprout. Therefore, that relationship with family members is only severed if the jivatma within this body, which is distinct from the three bodies—gross, subtle, and causal—realizes its own true form, holds 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 → ashram ashram 1) Stage of life. There are four ãshrams in total, each with their duties and responsibilities – brahm-chãrya, grahastha, vãnprasth, and sannyãs. 2) Hermitage. Place where tyãgis live. Tap to open in glossary → What did Maharaj say? How is the relationship severed? What did you deduce from that? By transcending the three bodies, transcending caste and class, and holding 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 → You just repeated what was said in this. What did you think? You repeated the exact same words Maharaj said. Pride of one's body... pride of the soul... what was said? How is it severed? If one does not keep any kind of pride. If the relationship with the body is severed, then the relationship with the body's relatives is severed. Is the relationship with the body severed like that? If the relationship with one's own body is severed, then the relationship with the body's relatives is severed, right? As long as the relationship with the body is not severed, until then, the relationship with all those relatives of the body is not severed. That's all. That is the only key. How detached has one become from the body? Then one becomes detached from relatives. So when is one said to be detached from the body? From caste, class, ashram ashram 1) Stage of life. There are four ãshrams in total, each with their duties and responsibilities – brahm-chãrya, grahastha, vãnprasth, and sannyãs. 2) Hermitage. Place where tyãgis live. Tap to open in glossary → In what is it to be used? Is it to be used in the service of relatives or in the service of Maharaj? In what is the use of the body to be made? In obeying God's commands and in service. Use it in obeying commands and in God's service. Then the relationship with relatives is disconnected. As long as the relationship with the body is not disconnected, meaning that is self-experienced. It is not experienced by others. Many things. How much my relationship with the body is disconnected, who knows that the most? Oneself knows. Who else knows? If one has severed the relationship with relatives but the relationship with the body is not broken, then what did Maharaj say? A cactus tree. It is not that if you cut a cactus tree from one place, it dries up. If you cut a mango tree from one place, it dries up. So we can say we cut it from one place, right? Cut it from one place. So we assume it has dried up. But it has not dried up. Maharaj said so. We cut it, so we assume it has dried up. But this is not a mango tree. This is a cactus tree. And a cactus tree does not need to be watered. No one, no one has ever watered a cactus tree. It draws water from the air. Like the banyan-pipal tree mentioned. Right at the top of a wall, a banyan tree grew. Just now, while walking around here, a banyan tree had grown at the top of that wall. Does it need to be watered there? Does anyone water it? Yet it survives. So it has grown there, and from there, it sent its root all the way down to the ground here. It sent its root to the ground. And no matter what kind of wall it is, does that tree dry up? Yes? What does it do? It breaks the wall. It breaks a stone wall. It breaks it by any means. Here, we had those many stones before, right? There were huge stones. Out of them, a small tree had grown, and it split the entire stone into two parts. It split the entire stone into two parts. The relationship with family members is the relationship with the body... do not go to break the relationship with family members there, do not go to fight with them much. The fight is right here in the house. As much as the relationship with the body is broken, so much the relationship with relatives is broken. Otherwise, it is not broken. If the relationship with the body is still active, even if it has been broken, it is only for appearance. Even so, Maharaj said to maintain the vow. That is, not to have much contact physically. Do not have much contact with the physical body. Then it breaks from within. If one tries to connect from that side, then even if it was broken from within, it quickly comes back together. That is said to be the vow of dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → What is the difference? That if one observes the vow, this originality comes. If one does not even observe the vow, then where is the question of breaking it? The fact that one observes the vow means that one has the desire to break it. It is not easily broken, Maharaj said so. Now, from the 37th Vachanamrut, it is said, "When we look at this gap, we remember everything. The pond, we remember all of that." Even if you do not remember, say so. And those who remember but do not say, they are bound by the oath of Nara-Narayana. "Therefore, that relationship with family members is only severed if the jivatma within this body, which is distinct from the three bodies—gross, subtle, and causal—realizes its own true form, holds 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 → ashram ashram 1) Stage of life. There are four ãshrams in total, each with their duties and responsibilities – brahm-chãrya, grahastha, vãnprasth, and sannyãs. 2) Hermitage. Place where tyãgis live. Tap to open in glossary → And moreover, what is our relationship with the gross body? How is it said to be severed? How is the relationship with the gross body said to be severed? Yes? How is that relationship with the gross body said to be severed? One can sit steadily in one posture, in worship or bhajan bhajan Worship. Tap to open in glossary → Then this one turns red and yellow. The other was called black or white, and this one turns red and yellow. Does that not come under the subtle body? Yes? That will come under the subtle body. In the subtle body, the mind's desires are not fulfilled. If the body is called black or white, and the body suffers some pain, and one becomes restless, then that is the gross body. If one has been insulted and yet remains unaffected, and one's focus remains towards God, then one is said to have conquered the subtle body. One's target is to serve Maharaj and the 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 → To serve Maharaj and the 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 → Then the subtle body is said to be conquered. We are not respected at all, so why should we serve them? Yes? Why should we do it? Say. But if there is no respect, we are not respected at all, then to please Maharaj... why should we do it? Why should we do it? To please Maharaj. We should do it for our own liberation. Should we do it because they respect us? Yes? Should we serve because someone respects us? Then what is the meaning of that? Meaning we do it for respect, do we do it for devotion? Then he has conquered the subtle body. If we perform well only where we get respect, and do not perform well if we do not get respect, then the subtle body is not said to be conquered. If one has made it a goal to serve God and to do it for the liberation of our soul. Then whether someone respects us or not? Yes? Then the relationship with the subtle body is said to be severed. And how is the relationship with the causal body said to be severed? Beliefs change. Nature changes. If they do not let us act according to our nature, can service be done? Then do we run there? If they do not let us act according to our nature, and moreover make us behave differently, do we go near them? Then we do not go near. Meaning, if one is ready to serve Maharaj and perform devotion even by changing one's nature, then the causal body is said to be conquered. Maharaj says if one conquers the three bodies, then the relationship with relatives is severed. By doing that to the three bodies, the relationship with relatives is severed, otherwise, even if the relationship with relatives is broken, it is not severed. Its root is right here. Its root is the body. Where there is a body, there is the body's family, and the body is the root of all misery. Since there is a body, the body's family comes there. And is that body just this physical body? Subtle and causal too. When one sets a goal to transcend those three bodies and love God, then it is severed. "And moreover, the liberation of the jiva, and the jiva crossing maya and becoming brahmrup, is caused only by the knowledge, meditation, kirtan kirtan Divine songs about Bhagvãn and His charitras, usually sung to the accompaniment of musical instruments. Tap to open in glossary → Purushottam Purushottam God. Supreme being. Bhagvãn. He is unparalleled, omnipotent and the all-doer, omniscient, omnipresent, the ocean of all forms of bliss, does not have any attributes of Mãyã, divine, always taking birth on earth for Tap to open in glossary → That is the relationship. All these are mediums of His relationship. Knowledge, meditation... knowledge means He is recognized. Who is Purushottam Purushottam God. Supreme being. Bhagvãn. He is unparalleled, omnipotent and the all-doer, omniscient, omnipresent, the ocean of all forms of bliss, does not have any attributes of Mãyã, divine, always taking birth on earth for Tap to open in glossary → Purushottam Purushottam God. Supreme being. Bhagvãn. He is unparalleled, omnipotent and the all-doer, omniscient, omnipresent, the ocean of all forms of bliss, does not have any attributes of Mãyã, divine, always taking birth on earth for Tap to open in glossary → Purushottam Purushottam God. Supreme being. Bhagvãn. He is unparalleled, omnipotent and the all-doer, omniscient, omnipresent, the ocean of all forms of bliss, does not have any attributes of Mãyã, divine, always taking birth on earth for Tap to open in glossary → The other says, 'I am the great Purushottam Purushottam God. Supreme being. Bhagvãn. He is unparalleled, omnipotent and the all-doer, omniscient, omnipresent, the ocean of all forms of bliss, does not have any attributes of Mãyã, divine, always taking birth on earth for Tap to open in glossary → Purushottam Purushottam God. Supreme being. Bhagvãn. He is unparalleled, omnipotent and the all-doer, omniscient, omnipresent, the ocean of all forms of bliss, does not have any attributes of Mãyã, divine, always taking birth on earth for 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. 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