And through upasana, liberation is indeed achieved, but without the three components, one cannot become free of desires and become an ekantik devotee of Shri 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 → Desire is not destroyed. The means to eliminate desire is said to be upasana itself. 'Vishaya vinivartante niraharasya dehinah, rasavarjam raso'pyasya param drishtva nivartate.' In this, Bhagwan has said exactly that. By becoming an ascetic, desire does not go away, but by becoming a devotee of Bhagwan, desire goes away. 'Vishaya vinivartante niraharasya dehinah.' By renouncing, by renouncing the sense objects, the sense objects are distanced, but the taste is not eliminated. Superficially, its taste is not removed. What should be done to remove its taste? Upasana. 'Param drishtva nivartate' means 'param drishtva' means 'paramatmanam upasanam kritva nivartate'. By performing the upasana of Paramatma, its elimination occurs. So, Gopalanand Swami has said something else new in this. What did he say? What new thing did he say? If those three components are perfected, ultimate liberation is attained. It is not achieved by upasana alone, but if one performs upasana along with these components, it is achieved. One is just graduation, and then one does specialization after that. If one has become a doctor and has completed four or five years, then he can only give injections. He gets permission to give injections, but without doing specialization, that mastery does not come. Similarly, to connect with Bhagwan, to connect with Bhagwan's personality, to connect more, these three components are needed. Desire first or these three components first? First, does upasana become firm or do these components become firm? The three components, this is the relationship of part and whole. Keeping at least one of these three components as primary, one should strengthen upasana. If one only keeps upasana, one cannot fully connect with Bhagwan's personality. That is called general knowledge. It is called general graduation. From general graduation, only general knowledge is gained, but if one does a PhD, one gains mastery in that subject. One goes deep into it. Similarly, in place of a PhD, this is it. This scripture, those components are there. Therefore, having developed dasbhav, having perfected dasbhav, then one should perform upasana, or perform upasana with pativrata bhav, or but if one does not cultivate any of these and performs direct upasana, then he does not get a grip in that upasana. In that upasana, the hold on Bhagwan is not established, that is what seems to be said. Do not ignore dasatva. Both are excellent. Maharaj indeed said that in our meditation, these three components come. In our view, in our view, these three components come. And without the three components, his liberation does not happen, so Maharaj said. In that, even if one of the three has come, still his liberation happens, and if none has been perfected, then living five days more and perfecting at least one is good. Otherwise, it is weak. Otherwise, it is weak. Therefore, keeping any one component as primary, one should perform upasana of Bhagwan, that is what it means. If one does not keep any component as primary and performs upasana of Bhagwan, then one cannot connect with Bhagwan's personality as one would wish. Actually, in upasana, what should we call true upasana, in that, we have often discussed three phases. One is constant remembrance, distinction from others, and master-servant relationship. So, dasbhav is included in that. Master-servant relationship. The master-servant relationship itself is upasana, but the master-servant relationship can be of three types. As mentioned in this, through dasatva, through pativratapana, and through brahmabhav. In all three ways, dasbhav indeed occurs. Therefore, servant-hood towards Bhagwan must come. That itself is upasana. And even after servant-hood has come, if distinction from others is not in him, then as it was mentioned in Swami's talks, Valakhilya and others perform upasana of the Sun, they do it better than us. We perform Bhagwan's upasana half-heartedly, and the Valakhilya sages, the 88,000 Valakhilya and other sages, perform very powerful upasana of Suryanarayan. They do it much better than our half-hearted efforts. We perform Maharaj's upasana, Maharaj is indeed very great, but how is the upasana? Half-hearted. Without any proper order. And Valakhilya and other sages perform upasana very well. They perform upasana of the Sun. They walk backwards. And what is the significance of constantly walking backwards? Continuous focus. Connection should not get disconnected. It should be continuous. So, is our upasana not without disconnection? Therefore, our upasana is half-hearted. His upasana is very good, but still, that upasana is not like that. One must know the distinction from others. 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