Vachanamrut Gadhada Madhya Chapter 43. Swaminarayan Hare Swaminarayan Hare. On the day of Posh Posh Seventh month of the Ãshãdhi Samvat year, normally falling between December and January. Tap to open in glossary → 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 → Then Shriji Maharaj said, "Come, let us have a question-and-answer session." Saying this, Shriji Maharaj asked, "A devotee of God who is gunatit and behaves solely as the soul, and in whom the sattvagun in the form of vairagya, the rajogun in the form of affection for worldly objects, and the tamogun in the form of ignorance—the states of these three gunas are absent, and who remains in a state of absolute, inactive, void-like equanimity..." What did Maharaj say? What came up? If a devotee of God is gunatit and behaves as the soul, then the outcomes of these three gunas are not present in him. Which ones? Sattvagun's aversion to worldly objects. Vairagya. He said vairagya, right? Yes, vairagya. Then rajogun's affection for worldly objects, and what did he say about tamogun? Ignorance. What does ignorance mean? What is the quality of tamogun? What is the main one? What is the main nature of tamogun? What do you say? Inertia. Tell another one. To quarrel. Quarrelsome. Not just to quarrel. To create one where there is none is the nature of tamogun. Even those with rajogun can quarrel. Then why is that not called tamogun? That happens for a purpose. That other one happens without a purpose. Affection without purpose remains. Like, just wanting to do it. Those three natures belong to the gunas. So the point made here is that those three things are absent. If one has attained gunatit equanimity, those three things are not present. So does he not have vairagya? What do you say? Then Shriji Maharaj said, "Come, let us have a question-and-answer session." Saying this, Shriji Maharaj asked, "A devotee of God who is gunatit and behaves solely as the soul, and in whom the sattvagun in the form of vairagya, the rajogun in the form of affection for worldly objects, and the tamogun in the form of ignorance—the states of these three gunas are absent..." Tell me, tell me. Like that. All this is absent. He said vairagya is absent. Did he say that or not? So does a devotee of God... one who is gunatit, have vairagya or not? What do you say? He does have it. So is this wrong or are we wrong? Through vairagya, they do not consider themselves great. They are beyond vairagya. Vivek Vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → Are vairagya and vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → Vivek Vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → What does vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → So in some places, Maharaj said that vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → Vivek Vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → vivek vivek Wisdom. Discretion. Carefulness. Good judgment. Tap to open in glossary → A devotee of God who is gunatit and behaves solely as the soul, and in whom the sattvagun in the form of vairagya, the rajogun in the form of affection for worldly objects, and the tamogun in the form of ignorance—the states of these three gunas are absent, and who remains in a state of absolute, inactive, void-like equanimity. Does a devotee of God have utthan or not? 'I want to do this' is called utthan. What arises within us, arises differently for each of the three gunas. Like, 'There is no reason to quarrel with this person, but I want to.' That is utthan. That is the utthan of tamogun. And 'I want this, I will not tolerate any deficiency in this.' That is the utthan of rajogun. And 'I want to leave all this now, all of this.' Having done many, like having had about 20-25 quarrels, we might say, 'I will probably reach everyone but then turn back.' So now we do not want to do it. Such utthan occurs. First, utthan is with me. 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. 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