"Shraddhamayo'yam yam Restraint. First step of ashtãng-yog, which involves moral living for purity of mind and unobstructed concentration. Tap to open in glossary → 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 → is directed towards a person and a deity. Being full of faith means in which person one has faith or in which deity one has faith. Not in the action itself. Then, based on that, the action takes place. 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 → If the ruchi is good, even if there is vasana, in the end, ruchi helps. If vasana is more and ruchi is a little less, even then, it may cause obstacles slowly, but gradually it leads one to the destination, if the ruchi is good. That faith. So it happens according to vasana. So, no problem, it is not just that it happens according to vasana. We talked yesterday, didn't we, that developing ruchi according to vasana, such natural attainment happens to one. Then, there is no prohibition in the scriptures against changing it. All these cruel people, even if they had tamasic faith, they still became sages. So how could they have become so without changing it? So, "Sattvanurupa sarvasya shraddha bhavati bharata," the meaning of saying this is that when one is born, such is attained. When born here, why does a person bring their prarabdha (past karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → In the same way, this faith also, following whichever guna, he brings that faith along with him. Then, in human birth, one can change it in any way. If he feels a hunger for God and a hunger for moksha, then he can change it. It is not that it remains the same. And if it were to remain the same, then the path to moksha would become false, wouldn't it? Therefore, one can change one's ruchi. But for that, a lot of awareness is needed. A lot of alertness is needed. First, he must know that "my ruchi is like this." Then, secondly, he must know that "I want to make it like this." So, if both these things are there, then if he makes an effort, it happens. And if he suppresses his original ruchi and keeps developing such a new one, then it can happen. What is said here about ruchi, shraddha, svabhavaja, sattvanurupa, it means that when human birth comes, at that time, he has brought this much along with him. Now, whether to add something new, to add within the same, or to develop some other new faith, that he can do in human birth. "Shraddhamayo'yam yam Restraint. First step of ashtãng-yog, which involves moral living for purity of mind and unobstructed concentration. Tap to open in glossary → 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 → Therefore, it is written, "yasmin yachchraddhah sa eva sah." "Yasmin" means a person is included. In whichever person he has faith, his ruchi will also be just like that. So, "sa eva sah" means this is his replica. If there is perfect faith, then he is his replica. If Gopalanand Swami has perfect faith in Maharaj, then he does Maharaj's work. Because the ruchi of both is one, faith is one, faith in each other... in what does he have faith? Then, what else is he going to do? Whatever work Maharaj does, this person is going to do the same. So, his replica, as they say, reflection. Representative. This is a representative, he is a representative. 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 → Defined by faith means he acts according to his faith. According to ruchi, he acts according to his ruchi, like that. And whatever activity arises from him, it will be due to faith and in accordance with faith only. "Yo yachchraddhah sa eva sah." Whichever faith a 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 → "Yo yachchraddhah" means whoever possesses such faith. "Sa eva sah," that is his representative form. He becomes his symbol. If he has complete faith in that. If it is incomplete, then he becomes that much incomplete. If we develop faith in Maharaj, then we become like Maharaj from head to toe. That is why it is said, isn't it, that the Sant Sant A sãdhu. A tyãgi. In the Vachanãmrut, sant refers to sat- purush. Tap to open in glossary → Hari Hari An avatãr of Bhagvãn. He incarnated in His four-armed svarup to save an elephant from being killed by a crocodile. He cut off the crocodile’s head with His chakra. Tap to open in glossary → Whose "aap" (self) has turned around and changed. What does "aap" mean? The ego. His ego, meaning his faith, his ruchi, if that changes and becomes like the other's, then indeed he is considered the same, isn't he? "In his ears are 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 → So what does that mean? His vision becomes like His. Whatever His ruchi is, this person sees accordingly. Whatever His ruchi is, this person thinks accordingly. Whichever path is His ruchi, this person walks on it. And whatever His ruchi is, this person does that work. Therefore, the Sant Sant A sãdhu. A tyãgi. In the Vachanãmrut, sant refers to sat- purush. Tap to open in glossary → Hari Hari An avatãr of Bhagvãn. He incarnated in His four-armed svarup to save an elephant from being killed by a crocodile. He cut off the crocodile’s head with His chakra. Tap to open in glossary → It is not that just because one wore the clothes, one became Hari Hari An avatãr of Bhagvãn. He incarnated in His four-armed svarup to save an elephant from being killed by a crocodile. He cut off the crocodile’s head with His chakra. Tap to open in glossary → Or just because others start believing so, one became Hari Hari An avatãr of Bhagvãn. He incarnated in His four-armed svarup to save an elephant from being killed by a crocodile. He cut off the crocodile’s head with His chakra. Tap to open in glossary → Whose "aap" (self) has turned around and changed. His ego, has joined with God's ego, has become connected. And his sense of attachment, has joined with God's sense of attachment. So, whatever attachment God has, this person has the same attachment. Whatever ego God has, there must be some somewhere, right? Like how Naradji said, "I am not Narad if I do not do this." So that is called ego. Similarly, sometimes we say, "I am not this," that is called ego. If that is, "If I do not connect them to Maharaj, then I am not this," then his ego is said to have become like that. Faith in whom. "If I do not connect these many people to Maharaj, then I am not so-and-so." Then that is called "whose self has turned around and changed." We all connect our "aap" (self) to ourselves, don't we? We connect it to ourselves only. So, if his "aap" turns around and changes, then he connects it to Maharaj. Then he does not connect it to himself. Therefore, "yo yachchraddhah sa eva sah." Whichever faith a 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 this chapter is about devotion, isn't it? It is written in this, "tesham nishtha tu ka 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 → What is his devotion? On whose side is he going to stand? If he is left completely free, where will he go and stand? And wherever he stands, beside whomsoever he stands, that is called his devotion. As ruchi and faith become firm, if devotion has developed in some person, then can that devotion change? It can change, indeed. This chapter is indeed about that. If it could not change, then all those scriptures, the teachings of the scriptures, would be in vain. What do the scriptures do? What do the scriptures say? Purusharth (self-effort). "Do not do what you are doing, and now do this." Not to do what we are doing. That is, not to do what we do according to our nature. And now, to act according to Maharaj's ruchi. So, because the scriptures tell him so, it must be changing, right? Otherwise, it would change... the scriptures would not say so, they would only say what is bound to happen. 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