So Maharaj said, Swami said here, that looking at Him brings great bliss. If one keeps looking at Maharaj's 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 → It is just that the jiva cannot remain still, so it has to do other things, as all the Gods have said. That the jiva cannot live without it, without showing its traits. So, now they say, "Okay, do this." Otherwise, the liberated souls of God are all just looking at Him, there in Akshardham, yet they do not get tired of it. Maharaj said that in God's 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 → the bliss of even a single pore, even if we gather the bliss of infinite millions of universes, still it does not equal even a ten-millionth part of it. Maharaj used all the words available to describe it. It does not equal even a ten-millionth part of it. Such is the bliss in God's 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 → But that, "Anveshtavyam tadvava vijignasitavyam," as said in the Upanishads, does not come into everyone's hands. Only those who make an effort obtain it. If one does not make an effort, it does not come into one's hands. It is indeed present in God. "Yadantastadanveshtavyam," what lies within Him, so what all lies within Him? From Maharaj's perspective, and from the perspective of the Upanishads, attributes, which attributes? That, strength, supremacy, valor, no, not that. Truth, knowledge, infinity, Akhileya pratyanika, akhileya pratyanika, apahata papama vijaro, Apahata papama vijaro vimrityurvishoko vijighatso satyakama satyasankalpa, these are all the divine attributes of God that are present. But from Maharaj's perspective, bliss lies within Him. From the perspective of great saints, what lies within Him that is useful to us? That there is immense bliss. That is mentioned in that Anandadhikarana, right? That "Yato vacho nivartante aprapya manasa saha, anandam brahmano vidvan na bibheti kutashchana." "Anandam brahmano vidvan," yato vata, the minds of all these sages of God, they purify their minds through penance and direct them towards God, yet they do not reach even a drop of it, such is the bliss in God, bliss. It is mentioned in Anandadhikarana, right? What is mentioned? What, what is mentioned in Anandadhikarana, Mukundswami? Tell me. Krishnacharanswamiji, tell me. God's form is perhaps endowed with all attributes like bliss, knowledge, etc. If one has a healthy body, no disease, heaps of wealth, and is seated on the throne of power, then that is one human bliss. A hundred such blisses make up the bliss of a king. When a hundred such are gathered, it makes one king's bliss, and when a hundred such are gathered, it makes a deity's bliss, and his, and his, compared to that, compared to that, compared to that, the bliss of God, even a drop of it cannot be matched even if we gather all of these. So it is said, "Yato vacho nivartante aprapya manasa saha," "Anandam brahmano vidvan na bibheti kutashchana." If someone tastes this, like a bee finding honey, then even the wind cannot stop them. The wind cannot be stopped. Even if someone tries to stop them, they would rather die, but one must taste even a drop of it. To taste it, one must make an effort. That is why it is said, "Yadvava anveshtavyam vijignasitavyam." One must first make an effort to search for God. Contemplating on God's 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 → and Maharaj, in simple language, said in the first Vachanamrut of Panchala, that the bliss of this is greater than that, and the bliss of this is greater than that, and the bliss of this is greater than that, which is the greatest bliss of all? It is that of God's 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 → If this thought settles in one's heart, then his jiva detaches from the pleasures of all these worlds. Automatically, his mind's focus will not wander anywhere else. Just as it happened to Sarvanivasanand Swami, that he only wanted to perform Maharaj's mansi puja, other things were secondary. To him, all of this seemed insignificant. So, he kept looking. He kept looking at God's 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 → Still, God accepts it as mansi puja. Jai Swaminarayan. Yes, Jai Swaminarayan. It is said to keep looking at God's 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 → By practicing meditation. By contemplating on God's 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 → and contemplating more and more, practicing how long I can remain focused on God's 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 → When we do it, we do meditate, but the mind wanders outside seventeen times. Even while performing mansi puja, it wanders outside seventeen times. Not like that, one should sit contemplating on God's 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 → and then not let any other thought arise. So, how long can one remain like that? One should practice that, and as, as one keeps practicing, the time duration increases. Then, at that time, bliss also starts to come. It does not come on the first day, but it comes later, as great saints have said. Gopalanand Swami, Gunatitanand Swami, and all of them, they said that, we only have to do as much as He said, then He is the one to give its fruit. So its time duration, time duration means that no thought should arise in between. What is called meditation? "Pratyekatanata dhyanam." "Pratyekatanata dhyanam." Pratyek means pratyaya, in that it is pratyaya eka and ekatana. What is called tana? When an intense force is developed, it is called tana. In that, do we have any force to meditate? We meditate like a dying animal twitching its ears. So "Pratyekatanata dhyanam," then only one gets the bliss 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 → And then, if one gets the bliss once, then can anyone extract honey from a neem tree? From the flowers of a neem tree, can anyone extract honey? Does it come out? Yet, the honeybee extracts it. The honeybee extracts it from there. It even extracts honey from a garbage heap. So, capacity is needed, right? And such effort is needed, God has given it natural effort, natural, that skill has been given. Birds have the skill to fly, fish to swim, but humans have to learn everything. It does not happen naturally for humans, if a human wants to fly, he has to spend five to ten thousand on a ticket, otherwise he cannot fly. If one wants to swim, one has to practice in a swimming pool first, only then can one swim. And a baby fish, even when it is just a tiny larva with a tail, it can swim against the current. 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