And faith and extremely firm extremely firm faith. What is the difference between the two? Eh? This person has a passion to obey commands. This person with extremely firm faith has a passion. Passion for commands. If one wants to give up any of their nature, can it be given up just like that? He has become passionate, so he even gives up his nature. And Then somewhere ahead, Sadguru Sadguru A great sant. Tap to open in glossary → He sees his own flaws, not God's. He does not see the flaws of God's devotee. No. And No matter how detached he is, if he is made to perform worldly activities, he does it happily, without being resentful. Right. Yes, that. He cannot do without spiritual discourses. Even if he has some flaw, still he cannot live without it. To God's God and He performs activities related only to God and God's devotee. That is also there. It is like that. True. The last one. Extremely firm faith. At the very end. And the third characteristic is that even if one has some flaw, one cannot live even for a moment without God's discourse, kirtan kirtan Divine songs about Bhagvãn and His charitras, usually sung to the accompaniment of musical instruments. Tap to open in glossary → What does that mean? What does it mean that one cannot live even for a moment without a saint? One cannot live without serving him. One cannot live without discourse, talk, kirtan kirtan Divine songs about Bhagvãn and His charitras, usually sung to the accompaniment of musical instruments. Tap to open in glossary → bhajan bhajan Worship. Tap to open in glossary → And One cannot live without serving. As for bhajan bhajan Worship. Tap to open in glossary → One cannot live. Someone inspires us, then we again attend the arti for two-four days, fifteen days. And again, if they don't inspire us, then we sit back. In this, it is about faith. If one has faith in Swaminarayan Bhagwan, then without doing bhajan bhajan Worship. Tap to open in glossary → One cannot live. One cannot live. Cannot live even for a moment. Cannot live even for a moment. And one cannot live without serving the saint, without serving God's devotee. That means his firm faith should be considered. And extremely firm faith. Maharaj has mentioned firm faith, extremely firm faith, and weak faith. And if one wants to go from weak to extremely firm, what should one do? That is the question. Start serving. Do extra. If one does extra seva. That must be true, it seems Sadguru Sadguru A great sant. Tap to open in glossary → What do you say, Tej Tej Fire or energy. One of the five bhuts, from which the physical world (Virãt-Purush) is formed. It is luminous, Tap to open in glossary → Does he do extra seva or what does he do? What does he do? What to do? What to do? One who has extremely firm faith, having trust in his words and what did Maharaj say in this? What is said in the Vachanamrut? To know Him by His essence, like that. That is said, what else is said? By which firm faith is established, that we now tell, isn't that what is said? Read the first and the last part of knowing Him by His essence. The very beginning. Here, we now, like Maharaj said, right. Saying this, Shriji Maharaj spoke, "After knowing God's form by His essence, nothing remains to be known. Listen as we tell the method of knowing Him by His essence. Hearing which, of God's form..." Now read that last part, after knowing Him by His essence. "In this way, one who has firmly established in his heart the faith in God along with His glory, him time, 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 → Read a couple of lines further in that. "And he who is foolish thinks, 'Why does God not manifest some power?' But God actually behaves by hiding His power for the ultimate liberation of the jiva. And if He manifests His greatness, even the universe would not be noticed, then what of the jiva? In this way, one who has firmly established in his heart the faith in God along with His glory, him time, 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 → That means his faith becomes firm, extremely firm. There was also probably a sentence like that, Maharaj, that Maharaj... But his faith becomes extremely firm, it happens by His essence. What does it mean to know Him by His essence? Eh? To know Him as distinct and extraordinary compared to other elements. Eh? God's greatness. What, brother, by His essence? How do you know Him by His essence? The Maharaj who is in this 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 → Divine powers. What else? What does it mean to know Him by His essence? To know God's greatness, to know God's power, to know God's influence. To know God's subtlety. God's subtlety, God's pervasiveness, that is the same, especially subtlety and pervasiveness. Mentioned in two-three Vachanamruts. Greatness. To know His greatness, to know His subtlety, to know His causality, to know His purity. That which is subtle is the cause, is pure, is pervasive in the effect. That means it is stronger than each other. Then it is the illuminator, the controller, all those are said in the conscious. In the other, all these are in the insentient. And whatever is the cause of something, it is more than that great, is subtle and is great. That which is subtle is great. Is great. So it is very strong. It is very strong compared to each other. And it is the cause, it is the controller. That means all those like Mahapurush and Pradhan Purush Purush 1) An akshar-mukta selected by Akshar-Brahm to ‘impregnate’ Prakruti for the creation process, from which countless pairs of Pradhãn and Purush are formed for the creation and sustenance of each brahmãnd. 2) Purush half of the Pradhãn-Purush pair, ‘conceived’ by Mul-Purush and Mul-Prakruti for the creation and sustenance of each brahmãnd. 3) Taken to be masculine in nature, Purush is the controller of Prakruti, and is also distinct from her. He is indivisible, without a beginning, and without an end. He is self-luminous, omniscient, imperishable, satya, kshetragna, and the cause of all the activities that possess a form. He also has a divya body. 4) Also called Mahã-Purush, Mul-Purush or Akshar- Purush. Tap to open in glossary → But the characteristics mentioned of one with extremely firm faith, are also considered the means. Characteristics and means, those two are one. To do so, means to establish faith by His essence. He gets a passion for commands. He gets a passion to change his nature, his disposition. "I want to change my disposition." First, his own disposition he identifies. And then to change his disposition he becomes passionate. Then he has a passion for serving God and God's devotee. And what else is said? God's discourse, talk, kirtan kirtan Divine songs about Bhagvãn and His charitras, usually sung to the accompaniment of musical instruments. Tap to open in glossary → bhajan bhajan Worship. Tap to open in glossary → bhajan bhajan Worship. Tap to open in glossary → Then even if he has that faith, it becomes firm, extremely firm faith. If we want to define faith, what would it be? "He is mine," establishing such attachment, that is the definition of faith. Swaminarayan Bhagwan is mine, not shared by everyone. He belongs to me alone, one who feels such attachment, attachment is called faith. Haven't you heard that series? There is a series on it. This is an object, that is called knowing. This is a book, a stand, a mic, knowing all that. What is it called? It is called knowing. So after knowing, in that, like if there is big or small, that is called vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → If it is distinct, then it is fine, it is called knowing. But if four-five books are lying there, then this is Vachanamrut, this is Swami's talks, this is that, that is called knowing. But if there are identical, same type of objects, and knowing the good and bad quality in them, that is called vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → There are objects of the same type. And in that, some all these are college students. But his this many percentage, all these are students. If they are students of A class, science students, all those are students, is there some rank in them or not? There are ranks in them, right, this is the first rank and this is the last rank. So that is called vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → That is called vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. 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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