Without making them divine, the destruction of internal enemies and demonic tendencies is not possible. The food of the life force and the worldly food of the senses bring with them many seeds of distortion. All food is of Maya. So that food goes inside the soul. So it brings distortions, body-consciousness, and demonic feelings. Demonic feeling means opposition to God and opposition to God's devotees. That is demonic feeling. Enjoyment is not a demonic feeling. Demonic feeling comes from enjoyment. If there is excessive attachment to enjoyment, then demonic feeling comes. Enjoyment is not a demonic feeling. Indra Indra The king of the devs. He resides in Svarg-Lok. Tap to open in glossary → He is not demonic. Indra Indra The king of the devs. He resides in Svarg-Lok. Tap to open in glossary → He searches for and enjoys pleasures that are not found anywhere in the three worlds. He searches for and looks for pleasures that are not found anywhere in the three worlds. He cannot tolerate anything weak. So he is a consumer of pleasures, he is not demonic. He has no opposition to God and the demigods. So that is the difference between demonic tendency and divine tendency. But if there is excessive attachment to enjoyment, then he opposes God, opposes in worldly dealings. When he gets involved in worldly dealings, in this world, dealings mean the dealings of the body. If others do not respect his body, then he opposes them. If they do not respect our body, then he opposes them. So he drifts into demonic feelings. So enjoyment, Without making the senses pure and divine, the destruction of internal enemies and demonic tendencies is not possible. The food of the life force and the worldly food of the senses bring with them many seeds of distortion. Therefore, even after getting full food, distortions like lust, anger, etc., are not removed. Scriptural and proper fasting is very helpful in overcoming all physical and mental distortions. Fasting also helps in achieving dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → Maharaj says it is also mentioned in the scriptures of dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → And one should not perform any bad actions with the body. Maharaj says that we also speak according to the scriptures, that the abandonment of the food of the eleven senses Look at the history of our Sampraday, Maharaj gave darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → On the night of Ekadashi, not in the morning, in the morning it is the end of Dasham. Maharaj gave darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → Sud Sud Bright half of a Hindu lunar month in which the moon is in its waxing phase. The days between Amãs up to and including Punam. Also called shukla paksh. Tap to open in glossary → Maharaj said that, "I will take an incarnation." For what reason did He give darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. 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 → And if Maharaj comes to take someone and tells them, it is mostly on Ekadashi. He never said, "I will come to take you on Amavasya." "This Ekadashi, on the coming Ekadashi I will come to take you." Maharaj said so. So there is divine purity in Ekadashi. If He gave darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → if Maharaj is still saying or has said that He will come to take someone, then it is mostly mostly on Ekadashi. He prefers Ekadashi more. That "We will come on Ekadashi. We will come." So there must be something in Ekadashi, right? There must be divinity in Ekadashi. Why did Maharaj choose that day instead of choosing another day? Maharaj says that we also speak according to the scriptures, that when one abandons the food of the eleven senses, then it is called Ekadashi, otherwise it is called animal-like fasting. If one abandons only food and continues the food of the senses, Maharaj said not to do animal-like fasting. So what does that mean? To eat on that day. What? So does it mean to eat on that day? Does it say so? What does it mean by "not to do animal-like fasting"? Not to do animal-like fasting does not mean to eat on that day. But even after fasting, one should not let other senses run in all directions. One must fast, abandon food, it does not mean to eat on that day. But after not eating, after fasting, after abandoning food, one should still not do animal-like fasting. One should not let them run in all directions. Otherwise, it becomes animal-like fasting. Animal-like fasting, does an animal run more when it is hungry or when it is full? What? It struggles in all directions. So that is animal-like fasting. So on the day of hunger, the senses struggle in all directions. And if someone comes in the way, it starts struggling against them too. So do not struggle. One must abandon food, but in addition, do not struggle. Otherwise, if one keeps struggling, it becomes animal-like fasting. So forbidding animal-like fasting does not mean to eat food. Even after abandoning food, do not let the abandonment of food turn into animal-like fasting. Act in a way that it does not turn into that. Otherwise, they will say, "Brother, we do not do animal-like fasting." "We eat a lot." Do not do that. Maharaj says that we also speak according to the scriptures, that when one abandons the food of the eleven senses, then it is called Ekadashi, otherwise it is called animal-like fasting. If one abandons only food and continues the food of the senses, then it is called animal-like fasting. Therefore, do not do that. But along with the abandonment of food, abandon the food of all senses. Maharaj says that such a fast comes once in fifteen days, so perform it with alertness. Then God becomes pleased with him. As long as the senses are bound to worldly food, to that extent there is a material feeling in the senses. When the senses abandon worldly food and Keep a target. Keep such a target. Among the old saints, there was great glory of the Ekadashi fast. The Ekadashi fast was very much observed. Almost all old sadhus, those of the older generation, observed it very much. Now it is decreasing a bit. It is also decreasing in our group, outside in the temples it is gone. Now in our group also it is decreasing a bit. On Ekadashi, nothing, just eat faral. Faral has become a system, so eat it. The liberated souls of Shvetadvip observe this fast Outside, they say secretly, "Faral does not suit us." "It does not suit us, that is why Maharaj has forbidden it." So they eat rotla outside. I heard about one or two such sadhus, that is why I am saying this. Faral is very difficult. When the senses abandon worldly food and turn towards God, to that extent they become divine. And to that extent, God is also realized by them. The liberated souls of Shvetadvip always observe this fast, therefore they are called Niranna (without food). Those who have fasted from this worldly food, in that only they get the grip to realize God. The more the enjoyments, the more the senses become blunt. When enjoyment becomes dominant, the senses become blunt. Then they may move around, but they cannot realize God. They cannot realize God. They may be very clever, sharp, but they cannot realize God. The sharpness of the senses means to realize God. God. Sharpness means how much worldly feeling is there and how much spiritual feeling is there, to remove worldly feeling and grasp spirituality, that is called sharpness. What is the meaning of sharp? To see through the subtlest things. To see through. Even if it is the subtlest thing, it is visible. We should also desire to become Niranna like them. But we should not lose courage in that matter. If one fasts in this way, sings the praises of God, keeps vigil at night, then that fast is considered true. 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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