Sadguru Sadguru A great sant. Tap to open in glossary → Swaminarayan Hare Swaminarayan Hare. Swami has said that those who are attached to sense pleasures attain the birth of ghosts, spirits, etc., and those who take the faults of a Haribhakta Haribhakta A bhakta of Shree Hari. A bhakta of Swãminãrãyan Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → So there is a difference between the two. Attachment to sense pleasures leads one to become a ghost or spirit after death. And taking the faults of God's devotee makes one a demon while still alive; it is not necessarily only after death. The former does not have to go to hell or become a ghost or spirit while still alive. How do we distinguish between taking a fault and recognizing a trait? How do we know if we have taken a fault or simply recognized it? One does not obsess over it, nor gossip about them without reason, then it is not considered taking a fault. If a certain trait is visible, but it is used for one's own protection, then it is not considered taking a fault. If any activity is done to put the other person down, then it is considered taking a fault. One must indeed recognize people. If one does not recognize them, one will make mistakes and suffer a loss; that cannot be called generosity, nor can it be said that one did not take a fault. But if there is a flaw or defect in someone, and one repeatedly gossips about it, working to put them down, then it is considered taking a fault. Even if that flaw actually exists in them. And in the other case, one simply knows that, 'Brother, this person has this flaw,' 'so we need to protect ourselves from it to this extent.' Then it is not considered taking a fault. And if one truly knows Shriji Maharaj, His mahima, His abode, His incarnations, and the mahima of His Satpurush, then one will never fall from 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 → If all of this—God, His mahima, His abode, His incarnations, and the mahima of His Satpurush—is in one's heart, then one has an attachment towards them. Our Hariprasad Swami, he built a temple for women in Taroda, built another temple, he was very insistent about Taroda. Why? Because of his attachment to Swami, he had an attachment there. It was the same with Mavji Bhagat, which means that he had mahima in his heart, so he also had an attachment to things related to Him. And wherever he goes, he cannot leave God; here Swami has written that he cannot leave God, but he cannot remain without spreading His message. He cannot remain without introducing God, he cannot remain without singing His mahima, he cannot remain without doing something to promote Him; then the mahima of God is in his heart. Suppose we suddenly go somewhere, go out of 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 if we have an attachment to Maharaj in our heart, we will prepare five people there as well. And if there is no attachment to Maharaj, even what we have will be erased. So whether there is mahima of God in the heart or not is known from this. If there is mahima of God, even when in the midst of 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 → And even when outside, one will do so; even if one has gone far from 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 → Our brother Chaturbhai Babariya went all the way to Santo Domingo to study. He was studying to be a doctor there, so who would tell him, 'Brother, do this, conduct 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 → But he had some attachment to Maharaj and Shastriji Maharaj's work, so he contacted Swami and joined everyone there in 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 → At most, if we go far, we might go to India, and then we feel like, 'There is no one here, there is no one here, there is no one here, there is no one here.' That householder devotee felt, 'There is a chance here, so let me conduct 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 → So wherever he goes, not only can he not leave God, but he cannot remain without introducing God. This is the proof of what lies within you. If you quietly pack up and sit back, it means there is no spiritual strength in you, nothing of the sort has entered you, and there is no attraction towards Maharaj. So if there is attraction to Maharaj, or if we are attached to Maharaj, we should introduce Maharaj to five people. God has given us a very large platform; a thousand people come and bow to you daily, a thousand people bow and prostrate. If there are children, and if you do good work, even their parents will look at you with respect. Otherwise, if you only behave deceitfully, the parents will run away from us. They have no enmity with us, nor do they have any affection from a past life; they only look at your work. If you do good work, they respect you. And without gaining respect for ourselves, how can we introduce Maharaj to them? First, we must build respect; we must build it through our work. We should do such work that they remember it for their whole life. If they benefit in their life, they will remember; otherwise, why would they? If they have not benefited in their life through us, why would they remember us? Sometimes people bow to us simply because we are sitting in this place, due to the position. Everyone has respect for the Gurukul, and we have sat sat 1) True. Real. 2) Permanent, imperishable and unchanging. Is unbound by the past, the present, and the future. 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. 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