A calf has a taste for milk, and a tick has a taste for blood. Similarly, the happiness of eating and drinking and the happiness of honor and greatness are like blood. And nijatmanam brahmarupam dehatraya vilakshanam vibhavaten kartavya bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → That happiness is like milk. Now your question has come. Now we were behind, so we have reached here now. So, a calf has a taste for milk, and a tick has a taste for blood. Swami says that the happiness of eating and drinking, honor, greatness, acquiring good things, and wealth – all these are the taste of blood. And nijatmanam brahmarupam. The happiness of milk is for one who does not need anything from what was mentioned earlier. The meaning of the happiness of milk is that one does not need anything. One does not need any worldly objects. Maharaj said in Bhakti Bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → Sant Sant A sãdhu. A tyãgi. In the Vachanãmrut, sant refers to sat- purush. Tap to open in glossary → That if Bhagwan gives us, we will perform seva. The master of Shvetdvip feels that if he is given such wealth, he would perform seva. Which wealth is that? Which was given to the Sadhu. What wealth does a Sadhu have? That he needs nothing. Jisko kachu na chahiye vo shahan ko shah. And one who needs something has to become dependent. To need means to become dependent on someone; one who needs nothing does not have to become dependent. So that is the happiness of milk. If one performs 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 → Bhagwan's principles are such that "diyamānam api na gṛhṇanti vinā matsevanam janā." Even if Bhagwan forcibly gives it to them, they do not accept it. They only accept seva. So such happiness is the happiness of milk. From that comes the happiness of milk. And if there are even slight worldly desires, then all that is the other kind. One who has the strength of Bhagwan's upasana should understand, even if suffering like a mahapralay befalls them, that the body will perish, and we will go to Bhagwan's abode. Understanding this, one remains happy. How to remain happy even in suffering like a mahapralay? It's easy to remain happy in a little suffering, but how to remain happy even if suffering like a mahapralay comes? Swami said about that. That, make your ashro firm. Having the strength of upasana means having the strength of ashro. The meaning of upasana is that we have the sole ashro of Maharaj. If we die, what is considered the greatest suffering? Dying. If suffering comes and increases, at most we die. So if the greatest suffering is said to be dying, then what happens to us after dying? Then we go directly to Bhagwan's abode. So there is no need to fear. Therefore, Gunatitanand Swami says that one whose ashro has become firm in the jiva does not feel fear. One whose ashro in Maharaj becomes firm in the jiva. Fear arises because we are somewhat attached to worldly objects. 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