Such is the secret of the eradication of vasana and of 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 → The nature of anvay anvay Not separate. United. Associated. Connected. When used for Bhagvãn, it implies that He inherently exists within. [Gadhadã I – 7]. Tap to open in glossary → vyatirek vyatirek Separate. Distinct. Independent. Unconnected. When used for Bhagvãn, implies He is beyond everything. [Gadhadã I – 7]. Tap to open in glossary → Key points. By understanding the greatness of God well, vasana is eradicated. The more intensely 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 → According to which, love for God develops. In this Vachanamrut, Muktanand Swami asked Maharaj a question, "What is such a powerful remedy for the eradication of vasana, that in this one remedy, all others are included?" Then Maharaj answered, "If one has bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → First, Maharaj states the common means for the eradication of vasana. First, one who has faith (shraddha), second, one who has trust (vishwas) in the words of 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 → 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 → third, one who has love (preeti) for God, their vasana is removed. To have a constantly renewed enthusiasm to perform bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → is called shraddha. As this increases more and more towards God, it takes the form of vishwas. Then, as experience and conviction come through 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 vishwas increases. Shraddha should not be blind. Shraddha should be seeing. In the Ramayana, it is written, 'Shraddha Vishwas Rupinau'. 'Rupinau' is a Sanskrit word. Parvatiji is shraddha. And Lord Shankar is vishwas. The shraddha Parvatiji had, no one else... that shraddha of Parvatiji, is considered the ultimate. No one can have more shraddha than that. Because Parvati... then, shraddha must be in a particular subject. Why a particular subject? For example, Parvatiji had shraddha, and it was in Lord Shankar. She had shraddha in Lord Shankar. Not in Vishnu Vishnu The dev of sustenance. Part of the trimurti. He lives in Vaikunth with his wife Lakshmi. Tap to open in glossary → The Saptarshis came to test her. And they tested her, asking, "For whom are you performing penance?" She replied, "For Lord Shankar." So they slandered Lord Shankar and pointed out his flaws. They had come to test her, so they did that. So they slandered him. And they pointed out his flaws, saying, "He lives in the crematorium," "wears snakes," "smears ash on his body," "and has ghosts as his companions." Even then, Parvatiji's mind did not waver. And what did she say? "Even if I have to struggle for tens of millions of births, I will marry Shambhu or remain unmarried." That is called shraddha. And as that shraddha progresses further, it takes the form of vishwas. Taking the form of vishwas, it then takes the form of conviction (nishtha). That is called nishtha, which is commitment. Commitment is called nishtha. So, nishtha. But it should not be blind. It should be thoughtful. More than thoughtful, it should be based on recognition. She had that recognition. They said to her... and Lord Vishnu Vishnu The dev of sustenance. Part of the trimurti. He lives in Vaikunth with his wife Lakshmi. Tap to open in glossary → The Saptarshis said, "I will find you a better husband." Even better than him. "The most beautiful in the three worlds." "And one who has absolutely no blemish." "I will find you such a husband." But still she said, "No, I have made my decision after careful thought." To... When there is vishwas, both shraddha and vishwas are often labeled as blind faith and blind trust. Why are they given such labels? Lord Shankar is the form of vishwas. What is one supposed to do in vishwas? One has to close the eye of discrimination. Only then is it called vishwas, right? If one applies logic, vishwas does not come. If one calculates, it is not called vishwas. It is blind trust. So, both eyes must be closed. Did Lord Shankar work with both eyes closed, or... when trouble arose? One has to open one's third eye. Lord Shankar has three eyes, right? And he sees with his third eye. He keeps those two closed. And seeing with the third eye is what is called vishwas. And that is called shraddha. Shraddha is because when a person has vishwas, it is only considered vishwas when they close their eyes. When they stop looking, and start believing, then it is called vishwas. If they keep looking, it is not called vishwas. They believe and also keep looking. They stop believing and keep looking. Then vishwas is considered zero. And if they keep looking and also keep believing, then it is considered half-and-half. When they stop looking and start believing, meaning in vishwas, one has to close one's eyes. To close one's eyes. But still, it should not be blind. Lord Shankar closed both eyes... and saw like this. They came to test Lord Shankar, right? They came to test Lord Shankar himself. Just as Parvatiji was tested, Lord Shankar was also tested. Lord Shankar was sitting in dhyan. And Kamadev was sent, "Go, see how he is." "Go and test him." So Kamadev came there with his entire empire and everything. So Lord Shankar closed his eyes instead. And what did he do? Going into dhyan... he looked with his third eye. And opening his third eye, he burnt Kamadev. And in dhyan, Lord Shankar saw Ram Himself. So he fell at Ram's feet. And he burnt Kamadev. That is the work of the third eye alone. Not of those other two eyes. When Lord Shankar's other eyes are open, no one gets burnt. If he opens his third eye, they get burnt. So in the third eye, he saw God... he saw God Himself and also saw Kamadev. He burnt Kamadev and obeyed Ram. Ram commanded him. "You marry Parvatiji," and he agreed. And Kamadev had commanded... in terms of marrying, both are the same. But still, he did not marry on Kamadev's command; he married on Ram's command. That is called shraddha and vishwas. Not blind trust and not blind faith. Lord Shankar thoughtfully obeyed the command. To marry, not on Kamadev's command, but on Ram's command. So that is called vishwas. The action to be done was the same. Still, on whose command? So... There is no vishwas in marrying. On whose command? In that lies vishwas. Kamadev... Kamadev said the same thing and Ram also said the same thing. What was Kamadev's... Kamadev's purpose with Lord Shankar? To make him marry. That Lord Shankar wakes up from dhyan, leaves the dhyan of God and focuses on Parvatiji, so that he marries. And if he marries, Kartikeya Swami would be born. And that Taraka... that demon would be destroyed. So that was the purpose. So when Kamadev went and said it, he burnt Kamadev. Then Ram went and said, "You have to marry," so he did. Ram went and said, "You have to focus on Parvatiji, not on Me." So he did. When Kamadev went and said it, he burnt him. Vishwas is indeed there. That vishwas itself is called the complete form of vishwas. Lord Shankar is called the complete form of vishwas. But where to place vishwas and where not to. To place it in Ram, not in Kamadev. That is called... What kind of vishwas is that called? Of blind trust... Eh? What is the opposite called? One is blind trust. And opposite to that is... Awakened trust. The meaning of blind... seeing trust. To trust after seeing. That is the meaning, right? The object of vishwas, vishwas is always subject-oriented. If someone says, "Uncle (kako)." Uncle. They say kako, right? Kako. Kako. Uncle. Then, whose uncle? Whose uncle? And who is the uncle? Similarly, in whom should one place vishwas? Like that. Therefore, blind trust... not everyone is worthy of trust. Lord Shankar is called the complete form of vishwas, it is said there is nothing but vishwas in him. Even then, he did not trust Kamadev. What proposal had Kamadev brought? And what proposal had Ram brought? So he burnt Kamadev and fell at Ram's feet. And Ram... What Ram said was contrary to his own nature. He found joy only in his dhyan. "Marry." He had no desire to marry. And God found joy only in dhyan. And yet he did it. So that is called vishwas. If one is told to do what one likes, then where is the vishwas in that? Eh? If one is to do what one likes, then in that... there is no need for vishwas at all. So that is not called vishwas. So shraddha and... if we are told to do what we like, can we say we have shraddha? We are going to do it anyway. That is driven by attachment (rag). Attached people do it. That is not called shraddha. It should be contrary to one's nature. Even then... shraddha in that... And it should be contrary to everything, contrary to the world. Marrying Lord Shankar is considered contrary to the world. It is considered contrary to public opinion. Why contrary to public opinion? In public opinion, there were no good... no good signs in him suitable for marriage. There was no groom suitable for marriage there... the qualifications a groom should have for marriage, were not present in God. In Lord Shankar. And yet she married him, so that is called shraddha. Contrary to public opinion. Even if public opposition comes, if one does not fall into the pit of opposition, then it is called shraddha. So when there is shraddha... many times it happens, "Brother, I..." "I get many doubts (sankalps)." To walk on the path of God, and then they say, "I get... doubts of opposition." So that means they do not have shraddha. They do not have shraddha. Even if doubts of opposition arise, one has to... fight against them and still do it, only then is it called shraddha, otherwise it is not called shraddha. To eradicate vasana, first, Maharaj called shraddha a means. What means did He state? First, one who has shraddha. First, such shraddha. Second, one who has vishwas in the words of 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 → 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 → They have vishwas. Third, one who has love for God. Then their vasana is eradicated, like that. Go ahead. Vishwas and, shraddha. There is a procedure for them. And Lord Shankar completed that procedure. What? In vishwas, one has to trust, right? One has to trust the other person. Before that, what is to be done? To select. The other person. To close one's eyes. And to see with the third eye. So what does that mean? Lord Shankar, going into dhyan, and saw through his third eye. Both had come with proposals. With marriage proposals. Kamadev also had come to Lord Shankar with a marriage proposal. His method was different. And, Lord Ram also had come to Lord Shankar with a proposal for marriage with Parvatiji. So what did Lord Shankar do? First, Lord Shankar's eyes were open. And seeing Kamadev's empire, he felt a little disturbed in his mind. Kamadev shot an arrow. An arrow. Shot an arrow. At Lord Shankar. So because he shot an arrow, he felt agitation in his mind. Kamadev's arrow hits directly in the mind. So he felt agitation in his mind. Because of the agitation, he felt... since his eyes were open, he closed them immediately. He closed them and thought, "Why did I feel agitated?" And he looked with his third eye. So Kamadev, was... hiding in the foliage of a mango tree when he shot the arrow. He had shot the arrow while hiding. So Lord Shankar immediately saw where it came from. So he saw Kamadev, and burnt him to ashes right then and there. He did not accept his proposal. And, while sitting in dhyan, Ram's proposal... Ram 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 → Saying, "You have to marry." So His proposal, meaning Ram's proposal... when Ram came, Lord Shankar immediately fell at Ram's feet. And accepting His proposal, he opened his eyes. This is the procedure of vishwas. Thus, 'Vishwas Rupinau'. What is the procedure of vishwas? If one wants to trust someone, what should one do? First, close the eyes. Closing the eyes, look with the eye of discrimination. See what is right and wrong. How truthful is the other person? And the other person, how false are they? And then trust. He did not trust the other one at all. Instead, he burnt him. He destroyed him, burnt him. So, the procedure of trusting. Blind trust and, seeing trust. So, one should not have blind trust. Of blind trust also, there are many examples. Blind trust. In the Ramayana, right at the beginning, there is one, there was King Pratapbhanu. And he went hunting in the forest. And he met a sage there. Actually, he was his enemy. But he had taken the form of a sage. And he talked big, so this king fell into his trust. Then he trapped him. And he became Ravana, so goes the story in the Ramayana. That king was very good. But betrayal occurred, and from that, he became Ravana. So that is of blind trust. He did not see who was in front of him. Without seeing who was in front of him, he trusted immediately. And Lord Shankar saw who had come with the proposal. He did not look at what the proposal was, what he had brought. He did not look at what proposal he had brought, he looked at who had come. And then he trusted, and then he did not trust, and he trusted—he did both. So that, is called true vishwas. That is not called blind trust. It is not called blind trust. What is the fruit of blind trust? Trouble. Pratapbhanu suffered. The story is very good in the Ramayana, of Pratapbhanu. And, he suffered a lot. That is the fruit of blind trust. Sitaji, did not trust Lakshman's words. She trusted Ravana's words. Ravana had come disguised as a fake sadhu. And Lakshmanji, was an original sadhu. Meaning he did not wear those clothes, but he was a sadhu, so he was original. And the other one had the clothes of a sadhu, but otherwise, he was a duplicate. So Sitaji trusted Ravana's words and did not trust Lakshmanji's words. Lakshmanji said, "Sister-in-law, nothing can happen to my brother." "Sit without worrying." "There is no need to go there." So Sitaji, in her mind, did not accept it. Instead, she became upset. And to him, she spoke harsh words. And Ravana said, "I have a vow that I will accept alms only if someone gives it to me directly hand-to-hand." "I am a true sadhu." "I am an original sadhu." "I accept alms only if someone gives it to me like this." So Sitaji believed it. And she went to give it to him like that. So what happened? She suffered. Shraddha is placed in the wrong person. Meaning Sitaji did not see. In whom she was placing vishwas and in whom she was not. Lord Shankar saw. In whom he should place vishwas and in whom he should not. So that became blind faith. And the other became shraddha. If there is shraddha, shraddha in God and true saints, then vasana is eradicated. There should be vishwas, shraddha, and then love (het). So first check this, and then love. Do not do it blindly. One who wants to eradicate vasana, wants to go to God, wants to be free from this world, they should do this. Otherwise, it is fine. Sitaji... 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