Swaminarayan Hare, Swaminarayan Hare. Swami has said, "And it is the way of all avatars to make people renounce women and wealth, and to protect the poor." "If someone, on the strength of their knowledge, vairagya, or bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → God punishes them. God has such a natural disposition. Maharaj described such a natural disposition of His in the Vachanamrut. Maharaj asked Muktanand Swami, "What makes you angry? And how does it subside?" Then Maharaj said, "Let Me tell you about Myself." So, if someone walks the path of adharma adharma Unrighteousness. Immorality. Sin. The opposite of dharma, which causes dharma to decline. Tap to open in glossary → So, that is exactly what is being discussed. God does not like that. It means taking advantage of someone's helplessness. God does not like that at all. That is not noble. God certainly likes nobility. When a person is helpless, they will do whatever you say. One has to call a donkey 'father' [flatter a fool]. But the person who takes advantage of helplessness, is not noble. And God's parents are Dharma Dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → Dharma Dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → Bhakti Bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → So, he must have that much nobility. On the contrary, when a person is helpless, if they receive reassurance or if one feels, "Come, let us help. How can we help you?" Even if we cannot help, it is fine. Even if one reassures them with words alone, God likes that very much. Then Maharaj said, "Poor, meaning poor, meaning everyone says those who are deprived... deprived? Deprived." Yes, those who have scarcity are not called poor in this context. Poor means a person should be poor, poor by nature [humble]. One who is humble by nature, and sometimes a person is also helpless. So, when there is helplessness, it is very easy to oppress a person. It is very easy to take benefit from them. And if one takes more, God becomes displeased instead; He said so. Therefore, those who want to worship God and truly please God with honesty, at least do not learn to take advantage of anyone's helplessness. If you explain to them and do whatever you do, that is a different matter. But here Maharaj has said, what did He say? Knowledge, vairagya, and bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → If someone is an ascetic, everyone fears them. So, if everyone fears them and they unnecessarily frighten others, God does not like that. Especially frightening a poor person, He does not like that at all. Especially if they frighten a devotee of God who is poor, God cannot tolerate that at all. God, Maharaj said to Yudhishthir, Naradji said, "If you do this, you will be destroyed along with your lineage." You will be destroyed along with your lineage; none of your kingdom will remain. When Ra' Mandalik unnecessarily harassed Narsinh Mehta, his entire kingdom was lost. And he died a dog's death. That is what happens if one oppresses the poor. What, brother, was Narsinh Mehta's fault? So, many times people in power are blinded. Their eyes are gone. So, they cannot see. When there is power or any kind of... when a person rises high or gets ahead in any matter, they do not retain much discretion about why they are forcing someone or the like. So Maharaj said, knowledge—even if one is highly educated, is it a difficulty? If one is uneducated, that is also a difficulty. So, digesting it is a matter of great fortune. To understand it rightly, to make right use of that knowledge, is a matter of great fortune. If there is vairagya, that is a virtue. But if there is vairagya, one might despise others. Despising someone who does not have vairagya... and it is possible that one is a devotee of God but does not have vairagya. One is a devotee of God, but does not have vairagya. So, this person sees only vairagya everywhere, they do not see Bhakti Bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → Bhakti Bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → So, in that, they despise others, oppress them, do injustice to them, take advantage of their helplessness. Because of this, even if they do not commit other sins, God becomes extremely displeased. And if they do it too much, God even punishes them. God does punish, doesn't He? If a person is not humble by nature and harasses others, and when they are in a helpless state, when they are in a helpless state, should we maintain nobility? When they are in a helpless state, one should not take advantage... one should not take advantage of helplessness. We should do our work. We should do our work, advance our mission. But it should not be advanced by taking advantage of anyone's helplessness. So Maharaj said that if we take advantage of someone's helplessness, then we will take it from this person too. Once a beast becomes stray and has grazed in someone's field, then it does not like being tied to a peg every day. It only likes to graze like that. Similarly, if one has taken advantage of someone's helplessness once, they will take advantage of a devotee of God too. All that happens. Such things appear in the divine actions of God. Shri 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 → But Jarasandh had gathered all those kings. And he wanted to perform a human sacrifice. He was doing such foolish things. Those other kings were helpless against his power. They could not do anything. So Shri 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 He called Uddhavji, "Now what to do about this? This irritates Me a lot, give some solution for this." He called Balaram. He called others who were known, "I do not like this." So Balaram said, "Come, I have my mace, I will take both plow and mace. Let us go, I will go first and then you come." So God said, "But God does not like the path of adharma adharma Unrighteousness. Immorality. Sin. The opposite of dharma, which causes dharma to decline. Tap to open in glossary → To go and kill him on the path of adharma adharma Unrighteousness. Immorality. Sin. The opposite of dharma, which causes dharma to decline. Tap to open in glossary → Find something so that we..." So Uddhavji found a way. "We also have Yudhishthir Maharaj performing the Rajasuya Yajna, and His invitation has arrived." "And those kings whom Jarasandh has imprisoned have collectively written and sent a letter." Both those letters reached Shri 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 → And then God had them read, "Now what should we do in this?" So Dau Bhaiya's opinion was, "We should first finish this Jarasandh." Then Uddhavji said... Uddhavji said, "No Maharaj, we should not do that." If we go directly to Jarasandh and do that to him without cause, it would not be considered right. It does not behove us. 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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