That is considered thinking about fitness. Until the last breath. Look, Brahmanand Swami, Muktanand Swami, Gunatitanand Swami, and Nishkulanand Swami Nishkulanand Swami Disciple of Sahajanand Swami (Swaminarayan Bhagwan) and author of the Bhaktachintamani, as stated in the scripture's own closing colophon at the end of every chapter. Tap to open in glossary → Right in the service of God, the last breath was drawn while performing seva. So, that is considered achieving fitness in the service of God. Not the fitness of this world. So, for that fitness, one even has to go to the gym. One even has to exercise. So, for fitness, sleep, food, all of that is for fitness. What if someone only goes to the gym and does not eat? What if someone only goes to the gym and does not sleep? He might be going to the gym just to sleep, if he cannot sleep at night. So that he can sleep; if he exercises a little properly, he will sleep. If he works hard. So, why should we sleep? Why should we eat food? Why should we acquire other facilities? For this reason, so that fitness comes in the service of God. Then, 'Krushnasevaparaih preetya bhavitavyam cha taih sada'. To him, food should be consumed after offering it to God. So, it is a kind of fitness. When one does such things, he is said to be fit in the service of God. Everyone is fit in their own way and they keep struggling, does anyone want to remain sick? He wants to get well immediately. We should get well. But if he has become unfit for seva, does he try to become fit in seva again? If a person falls sick, he runs to the doctor, runs to the gym, takes medicines, why? To get fit and regular quickly. If seva has slipped from our hands, do we feel in our mind that let's go to the doctor and get fit? It does not happen like that. So, we have not thought of fitness in relation to God at all. Our skill, our virtues, our body power, all of that, even a single effort, if it goes outside the service of God, then it is not considered fitness. It cannot be called fitness, right? He did not become fit. He did not become fit in the service of God to that extent. So, it is said here that he should cry out, "I am ruined, I am ruined!" If devotion to God was not performed and any time went barren, then he should scream. Barren means without devotion. No production took place. It is said that fitness was not achieved. A person should think of fitness such that, "I walk in the service of God until my last breath." We are tyagis, there is nothing else, no wife or son? So, I should remain fit in the service of God until my last breath. One is called fit when He (God) is satisfied, right? We became satisfied that, "I have done it, now I have done a lot." Neither a householder nor a tyagi should ever feel satisfied with their devotion to God. Just as one is never satisfied with earnings, even if God forbids it, we do not feel satisfied, similarly, one should never feel satisfied with devotion to God. More and more fitness should be achieved. We might not be fit in certain tasks and fit in other tasks. If we do not know how to cook and we go to the kitchen, we won't be fit, right? Similarly, if we are not fitting into certain services of God, we should try throughout our life to become fit. To fit into more and more seva. If it fits God, then fitness is said to be achieved. What comes after fitness? Wellness. After wellness, happiness. So, after becoming fit, one should try for wellness. What is called wellness? Huh? If the cart just manages to run, it is called fitness. If the cart becomes functional, it is called fitness. But if it is proper, Huh? if it brings joy, it is called wellness. So, wellness should not be felt by us, it should be felt by God, such that God says, "No, this is proper." God becomes pleased, "Yes, what you did is proper." Then wellness is achieved in us. After fitness, we want to achieve wellness. That means He should be extremely pleased. As Maharaj said in Gunatitanand Swami's talks, "To make Him completely absorbed." To make God completely absorbed. God should say from His side, "Now you stop, stop, stop, give time to others." You have done a lot. You stop, stop. Shastriji Maharaj, when Swami fell sick in '75, what did all the doctors say? The doctors said that as much work as Swami should have taken from his body, he has taken much more than that. So now, he needs to rest. This body, now from it, the body is tired. It has become outdated. Huh? Out of limit. It has gone out of limit. So, he needs to rest. And as Swami rested, he immediately got well. As he rested, he immediately became fresh again. That means he took so much work, so much work, even from his inner self, that they all started making creaking noises. And they started causing pain. So, that is called wellness. The doctors said that now you stop. But Maharaj must have also said it, Maharaj must have entered the doctor and said it. That now if we want to stop him, how do we stop him? So, He said through the doctor that now, that is called wellness. And if He becomes extremely pleased with him, completely absorbed, then it is called happiness. God became happy. This human body and all the instruments which we hold as mine. Sometimes it is written on some land, "This land is holding so-and-so." Holding. So, what we hold as mine, all of that should be used for God's fitness. We become fit in God, in the service of God, we become well in the service of God, we achieve happiness in the service of God, we become happy, we become helpful, Then it is said to be as this shlok shlok A verse from shãstras. Tap to open in glossary → What was the beginning of the shlok shlok A verse from shãstras. Tap to open in glossary → Harervidhaya naivedyam Harervidhaya naivedyam bhojyam prasadikam tatha, Krushnasevaparaih preetya bhavitavyam cha taih sada. A person, the devotees of God, our devotees, should become devoted to God. All the time, always. Always means? At all times. Forever, maintain fitness. Forever maintain wellness. If ever God wishes so, then to say, "But I am not in the mood right now." That should not happen, well. It is not said that God has not done it. Then from that, if much fitness is achieved, then wellness comes, and if much wellness is achieved, then happiness comes. What is it called when the excess of happiness increases? Anand. Anand means nothing else, excess of happiness. As long as it is within limits, it is called happiness. And if it goes beyond limits, more than necessary, then we often say that our health has become like that, right? That it has become much better than necessary. So, when it exceeds necessity, it is called wellness. That means we have become even more fit in seva than what God asks for, then we are said to have cultivated wellness, developed it. And even more than that, if God says, "Enough, enough now," then happiness is said to have been cultivated. So, thus, 'bhojyam prasadikam tatha, Krushnasevaparaih preetya bhavitavyam cha taih sada'. Cultivate fitness, wellness, and happiness in the service of God. Then one is said to have become devoted to God. Krushnasevaparaih hee preetya bhavitavyam cha taih sada. Forever, at all times. Our sleep should also be fitness-oriented in the service of God. If we keep sleeping excessively, or do not sleep at all, then it is not called fitness. Sleeping at that time damages fitness. Then it definitely damages wellness, right? Excessive sleep, excessive food, similarly, less sleep, and as for food, no one eats less, but the problem is when it is not digested, not digested properly. No one eats less food anyway. But after consuming it, if it is not digested, that is the problem, so that is considered eating less. So, that is considered a disturbance in fitness. Similarly, our sleep, does it not disturb our fitness in the service of God? Our food, does it not disturb our fitness for God? Then, they are said to have become devoted to God, otherwise they are not devoted to God, they are devoted to themselves. Everyone is devoted to themselves anyway. 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