If a person wishes, they can reduce their swabhavs through seva. Sadguru Sadguru A great sant. Tap to open in glossary → Hariprasad Swami was very ill. In his final years, his body was not well. So, if he had to go bathe, he would bathe. And even if only five to ten minutes were left, he would still reach the sabha. Even if he couldn't walk, he would still reach the sabha. So, if one forms such a habit, it stays. And as for us, if we miss even five minutes of the aarti, we say, 'Now nothing for today, nothing of today's sabha. Now there is seva, I did this seva for five minutes, that is plenty. So now there is no need to go to the sabha.' No need to recite the rules, no need to go in the line. Seva is important, and 'seva muktishcha gamyatam' (seva leads to liberation). Then, it appears personified in this. That seva leads to liberation, which liberation? Did it say joining the line is mukti mukti To become free. Kalyãn. Moksh. Those who are bhaktas of Bhagvãn do not desire any of the four types of mukti: to reside in the dhãm of Bhagvãn; to stay near Bhagvãn; to assume a svarup similar to Bhagvãn; and to attain powers similar to Bhagvãn. A nishkãm bhakta of Bhagvãn does not wish for any of these. Instead, he only wishes for Bhagvãn’s sevã. [Gadhadã I – 43]. Tap to open in glossary → mukti mukti To become free. Kalyãn. Moksh. Those who are bhaktas of Bhagvãn do not desire any of the four types of mukti: to reside in the dhãm of Bhagvãn; to stay near Bhagvãn; to assume a svarup similar to Bhagvãn; and to attain powers similar to Bhagvãn. A nishkãm bhakta of Bhagvãn does not wish for any of these. Instead, he only wishes for Bhagvãn’s sevã. [Gadhadã I – 43]. Tap to open in glossary → Sadguru Sadguru A great sant. Tap to open in glossary → So, does that mean all those who do dhyan have dehabhiman, and all those who do seva have swabhavs? Not like that. In dhyan, whoever wants to increase it, their dehabhiman increases. And in seva, if one does not remain vigilant, it just increases. It's not that it increases for everyone. Seva is actually a means to remove swabhavs. Even then, it increases. If they are householders and they perform financial seva. Then they keep expectations that, 'When we go, we should receive a garland, we should receive prasad, we should get facilities.' Then, if sometimes they don't get it, it causes difficulty for them. So, they themselves increase all those swabhavs, householders in a householder's way. And for the tyagi, human swabhav, Tribhuvanbhai Vyas used to say, 'A human is a bundle of swabhavs.' Those are heaps of swabhavs. If you gather small ones, it becomes a bundle. Each individual has that big of a bundle of swabhavs. Sadguru Sadguru A great sant. Tap to open in glossary → It's not that it increases for everyone. Those who perform seva to please God, if they wish, their swabhavs can also decrease through seva, they can decrease in the best way. Both of those are also for reducing them, and for increasing them, others may not have the same convenience. Therefore, Swami says, to become sattarup and reduce swabhavs, and to engage in seva and bhajan bhajan Worship. Tap to open in glossary → Furthermore, Swami says, a person with vairagya must keep the rules firmly. Meaning, In that, it is written, those with mild vairagya must keep the rules firmly. Furthermore, Swami says that, a person with vairagya must keep the rules firmly. Meaning, even a person with vairagya must keep the rules firmly. Otherwise, due to vairagya, negligence creeps in, and the senses are never negligent. In those talks, what you read said it very nicely that those with mild vairagya must also keep the rules firmly. Otherwise, the tendency of the senses is like a horse. Once it gets a taste of someone's food, then it is out of the rider's control, it just eats and eats. So, once you let a swabhav increase, then it's over. Then, for the rest of your life, it makes a home in you. Due to vairagya, negligence creeps in, and the senses are never negligent, they are like horses. If they sense a little slack, they take the bit in their teeth, throw off the rider, and start roaming willfully. So, a householder should also live in a way that is accommodating to everyone according to their ashram ashram 1) Stage of life. There are four ãshrams in total, each with their duties and responsibilities – brahm-chãrya, grahastha, vãnprasth, and sannyãs. 2) Hermitage. Place where tyãgis live. Tap to open in glossary → Swami says, a clever rider tames them. It is said that horses never tire. Therefore, they Horses do not tire. So, Swami here has compared the senses to horses. The tendency of the senses is like a horse. That is, a horse never sits and never tires. No one has ever seen a horse sit. A donkey also doesn't sit, but a donkey might sit sometimes. But a horse does not sit. Not sitting simply means that it never tires. The senses never feel tired. A person feels tired when they lack interest. Otherwise, the senses do not feel tired. A person who gets tired of seva does not tire of seva, but they lack complete interest, so they get tired. Narendra Modi works 18 hours, yet he says, 'I don't feel tired.' What is tiredness? If the work is not completed, one feels tired. Something like that was published somewhere. That if the work is not completed, one feels tired; once the work is completed, even after working 18 hours, all tiredness vanishes. We do not have such interest in God. 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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