Vachanamrut Vartal Chapter Number 19. Swaminarayan Hare Swaminarayan Hare. On the day of Maha Sudi Beej of Samvat Samvat The calendar established by Indian emperor Vikramaditya of Ujjain following his victory 56 BCE. It is a lunar calendar based on ancient Hindu tradition. The Vikram Samvat calendar is 56.7 years ahead of the solar Gregorian calendar. The calendar most commonly used is the Kãrtiki Samvat, which begins on the first day of Kãrtik. However, the Vachanãmrut is written using the Ashãdhi Samvat, which begins on the first day of Ãshãdh. Tap to open in glossary → Shriji Maharaj, in the evening, was seated on a cushioned seat on the eastern veranda of the Shri Lakshminarayan temple in Vartal. And He was wearing all white garments. And in front of His lotus face, an assembly of Munis and devotees from various regions was seated. Then, after the evening Aarti of Thakorji was performed, Shriji Maharaj said, "Listen, let us talk about God." "When this jiva obtains a human body in Bharat-khand Bharat-khand Ancient India, considered to have stretched westward to present-day Turkey, eastward to present-day Burma, and beyond the Himalayan mountain range in the north. Is considered to be the best of the nine khands of Jambu- Dvip because those who attain birth in this region can potentially attain kalyãn due to the constant presence of Bhagvãn's avatãr or Bhagvãn's sant. Tap to open in glossary → then the avatars of God or the sadhus of God are certainly traversing upon the earth. If that jiva recognizes them, then that jiva becomes a devotee of God. Once he becomes a devotee of God, he should not keep love for any object other than God. Why? Because, compared to the bliss of God's abode, the happiness of the worldly five sensory pleasures is like hell. And the insects of hell consider hell to be supreme happiness, but a human being knows that hell is extremely painful. Similarly, one who has recognized God has become a parshad of God, and he, ceasing to be a parshad of God, should not desire the worldly five sensory pleasures like an insect of feces. And whatever desires a devotee of God has, they all come true; therefore, desiring objects other than God out of misunderstanding is indeed his great lack of discrimination. For this reason, a devotee of God should consider the pleasures of the fourteen realms as equivalent to crow dung, and with mind, action, and speech, should keep intense love only for God and the devotees of God. And he should understand that, even if a devotee of God happens to have some other vasana besides God, he still attains the status of Indra Indra The king of the devs. He resides in Svarg-Lok. Tap to open in glossary → Then how can the glory and the bliss of a true devotee of God ever be described? Therefore, a devotee of God should keep intense love only in God." Thus Vachanamrut. In this way, the 19th Vachanamrut of Vartal was concluded. [blank] Expounded subject. Recognition of the bliss of God. Main points: The jiva who recognizes God and the Sant Sant A sãdhu. A tyãgi. In the Vachanãmrut, sant refers to sat- purush. Tap to open in glossary → Sant Sant A sãdhu. A tyãgi. In the Vachanãmrut, sant refers to sat- purush. Tap to open in glossary → We all recognize God, but we do not recognize the bliss of God. So, while worshiping God, we start running after this world. Because we do not recognize the bliss of God. We do not recognize what the bliss of God is like. We only recognize God, that He is Swaminarayan Bhagwan. While turning the rosary of Swaminarayan Bhagwan, we start running after the pleasures of this world. Because we do not recognize the bliss of God, do we? If we recognized that bliss, we would not run after worldly pleasures. We do not, so we run. And Maharaj said that when one becomes a devotee of God and recognizes God, he recognizes the bliss of God. Then he becomes a devotee. Otherwise, if we do not believe this, then everyone who recognizes God would become a devotee. Even if they are devotees of God, they are still running around in the world. It means that he neither recognizes God nor recognizes the bliss of God. When one recognizes the bliss of God, Maharaj says, "If this thought is established in one's heart," as said in the first Vachanamrut of Panchala, "If this thought is established in one's heart, his mind easily detaches even from the most excellent five sensory pleasures. He does not have to make an effort." And if it does not happen, if this thought is not established in one's heart, then no matter how much effort he makes, his mind will not detach from the world. And he will not become stable in God. Therefore, Maharaj says, "His vision must reach that bliss." While focusing on God, his vision must reach the bliss of God. That is, his vision must recognize the bliss of God. Then he will have no trouble. Otherwise, he will have trouble. If one does not recognize the bliss of God, is that considered a lack of recognition of God itself, or are the two different? It is considered a lack of recognition of God itself. What does recognizing a person mean? How tall or short he is? How fat he is and how many kilograms he weighs? Recognizing a person? Recognizing his power, capability, and virtues. Yes. If you want to buy fruit or grain, you measure it in kilograms. But what is the recognition of a person? How many virtues does he have? What is his nature like? If someone stays with him, does he become happy or does he return unhappy? If someone stays with him, does he feel, 'I am blessed. Having met him in my life, I am blessed. I have nothing else left to do.' Feeling that way is the recognition of a person. Saying a person is so many feet tall and weighs so many kilograms is not the recognition of a person. Whether he is handsome or ugly is also not the recognition of a person. A person is recognized by his virtues. Recognizing what kind of bliss comes by remembering Maharaj is the true recognition of Maharaj. And in that, Maharaj, in the Vachanamrut of Panchala, showed a comparison that this bliss is greater than that, and this bliss is greater than that, and this bliss is greater than that. In this way, Maharaj's bliss is greater than all. If one recognizes this, then he becomes a devotee of God. It is said so in this Vachanamrut. That when this jiva obtains a human body in Bharat-khand Bharat-khand Ancient India, considered to have stretched westward to present-day Turkey, eastward to present-day Burma, and beyond the Himalayan mountain range in the north. Is considered to be the best of the nine khands of Jambu- Dvip because those who attain birth in this region can potentially attain kalyãn due to the constant presence of Bhagvãn's avatãr or Bhagvãn's sant. Tap to open in glossary → Sant Sant A sãdhu. A tyãgi. In the Vachanãmrut, sant refers to sat- purush. Tap to open in glossary → So does everyone become a devotee? Whether we are satsangis or sadhus, are we all devotees? It is not like that. If he recognizes the bliss of Maharaj, then he becomes a devotee. Then he runs to experience Maharaj's bliss. Then he has become a devotee. He recognizes what bliss and joy there is in staying with a sadhu. We cannot force this recognition by repeatedly hammering the glory from the outside. He must recognize it from within. Then he becomes a devotee. If there is a householder and his sons are not working, then the householder parents say, 'Hey, you do nothing all day, you do that,' and they tell him somehow. They explain all the glory of business, then he understands. If he gets hooked on the glory of money, then? Then the father does not have to say anything. Instead, he says, 'I want to separate. Why? Because my brother does not work. He does not work and I earn alone, and he takes all the share, he consumes it. So I will separate.' He must get hooked. He must get hooked on the bliss of God, as to where the bliss of God comes from. 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