What was the question? What is the reason that the dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → What is the reason for that? The dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → Which of the devotees remembered it? [inaudible] What did you remember about the dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → The 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 → Huh? Satyayuga prevails based on satvaguna. But the action of Satyayuga, it is like this, it is like this. When the dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → or is it not in this? It is not in this. Huh? What is the dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → Huh? To meditate. The dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → They only did two things: meditation and bhajan bhajan Worship. Tap to open in glossary → And they performed austerities. That is the dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → These sadhus observed a month-long fast, so did they have the dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → Oh, you tell me. Do some research. When the resolve was made, when the resolve was made, there was the dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → And then, after that, if the austerity becomes a bit harder, then tamoguna enters. It does not remain Satyayuga, it becomes harsh. The mind remains tense, right? So if the mind remains tense. But when the resolve was made, at that time, there was the dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → The dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → bhajan bhajan Worship. Tap to open in glossary → bhajan bhajan Worship. Tap to open in glossary → Those are the dharmas of Satyayuga. So then, if these people have made a resolve, they perform austerities for the whole month. So the action remained that of Satyayuga for the whole month. So does the yuga prevail by action or does the yuga prevail by guna? Did you understand or not? What? What is its cause? Guna or action? Huh? Yes. So then, is there any role of action? Huh? The subsequent gunas that prevail, the gunas that come after, come based on action. That means the activity of the yuga is also based on action. In reality, its sign, meaning what is it identified as, or what, identification? Other than identification, that symptoms? Huh? Symptoms. Symptoms. Symptoms. There is also another thing, they call it something else. It gets identified by that. So the identification is the identification of the yuga. Guna is inside. It is like an inner flow. Guna is inside, right? But what is the outer identification? Huh? The outer identification is action. So based on action, is there any role of action in the dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → It does have a role, right? Because the gunas based on which the dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → If one holds onto action, then satvaguna, if there is tamoguna, it gets suppressed. Based on action, the opposite guna gets suppressed. If one holds onto the action of Satyayuga, selfless service, that cannot even be called an activity of Satyayuga, that is called a nirguna activity. So if one holds onto that, the other gunas get suppressed. Action does at least that much work. Does crossing happen like this? Huh? Does crossing work, suppose rajoguna is active inside and satvaguna action is happening outside? No matter how it is, it works. No matter how sleepy we feel right now, suppose you perform circumambulations or prostrations, that is crossing, right? Or suppose you do some other service. So in that, there was a crossing of guna and action. So again, based on what does action prevail? Huh? Action happens according to one's own desire, according to resolve. It prevails more based on association. Maharaj said, how much is the strength of past karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → How much is the strength of past karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → And how much is the strength of association? Thus Maharaj... Association is included in those eight. Past karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → So how much, what did Maharaj say? Past karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → And association is after-birth. After-birth. Association is after-birth and past karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → No matter how our past karmas are up-to-birth, but if one gets attached to good association, then even the dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → Then even the dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → And otherwise, the dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → The cause, the inner cause is guna. And the outer control is association. It is the outer control. It controls it, that let's take action, action prevails by association. Maharaj said that if there is association with sadhus like you, then their action also becomes good. That means action prevails by association. If one wants to make the action of Satyayuga prevail, then one has to attach oneself to a person of Satyayuga. And if the action of Dvaparayuga prevails, then one has to attach oneself to people of Dvaparayuga. Treta to Treta likewise. What is the action of Treta? The action of Tretayuga? It is in the Bhagavatam, right? Rituals, sacrificial rituals. Sacrifice and worship. Sacrifice and worship. So what difference came between meditation, bhajan bhajan Worship. Tap to open in glossary → So its yuga changed. Meditation and bhajan bhajan Worship. Tap to open in glossary → so all those Tretayuga came. Shastriji Maharaj used to say that when we rolled rotis, we remembered each sign. When we patted dung cakes, we remembered each sign. In that way, remembering the murti murti 1) Sacred idol of Bhagvãn used to offer worship. There are eight types of murtis that can be worshipped: stone, wood, metal, earth, engraved or drawn, sand, gems, and mental. 2) The form of Bhagvãn. 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 → In that, crossing happens. Crossing of action and guna can happen. So who wins? Action wins. Action controls the guna. Guna cannot control the action. If it prevails voluntarily. Now, for example, if these sadhus have taken a vow, when it is Satyayuga, they have taken a vow that let's perform austerities during the Adhik month, so they have taken the vow, that is fine. Then? Then it is not that they have Satyayuga for the whole month, or that only thoughts of Satyayuga come for the whole month. Sometimes tamoguna becomes very strong, when performing austerities, if they are very hungry and someone teases them, then? When they are very hungry and someone teases them, then tamoguna comes, right? Actually, tamoguna is suppressed, if someone teases, it comes out, that is all. If someone teases, it comes out. So that too, that action has suppressed it, meaning that action of Satyayuga has been performed once. And tamoguna then, based on that guna, it prevails. But along with it, action also has a role in it. Maharaj mentioned guna here because its inner cause is guna. If one wants to change it, it is action. We have a lot of tamoguna. So Maharaj said that for tamoguna and highly tamasic karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. 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 → What is trust? That if we do as he says, our tamoguna will go away. If we do as he says, our liberation will happen. If we do as our mind wills, it will not happen. If one has such extreme trust, then all those dharmas of Kaliyuga go away from his heart. And tamoguna also goes away. And the dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → So more causal than that is association. Association and guna. Association and guna. But guna is up-to-birth. And association is after-birth. Where we are born, that is up-to-birth, it comes based on that guna. It comes based on past karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → So Maharaj said that it does not change at once. If there is tamoguna right now, meditation cannot be done. Meditation is an activity of satva. So if tamoguna has spread in our heart right now, if we go to meditate, it will not happen. 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. 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