2. Nishkam karmayog and punya are different. Nishkam karmayog happens to a person only when they renounce their self-interest and benefit others. 3. This was discussed earlier. That is, one's duty and one's right. Both are connected to 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 → 4. When one performs 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 → 5. And to do is called duty. So, performing one's duty and one's right are two sides of the same coin. If one renounces someone's right, then duty is performed properly, and nishkam 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 → 6. And if one renounces a right, then the benefit is to be received by someone else. So, if a person is thinking about which is best in performing nishkam karmayog, it is not based on the action. 7. Who receives the benefit? Who is its center? For example, Draupadi tied a bandage. 8. A bandage is not very valuable; we do first aid, what do you call it, a compounder with bandages must tie so many bandages. Yet, they don't get much benefit from it, even if they do it for free. 9. Because the big question is, who was that bandage tied for? So, who is the recipient of the offering we make? 10. Is it God? Or is it an ekantik bhakta bhakta Devotee of Bhagvãn. A follower of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → 11. Or is it a weak recipient? That can also happen. If our offering goes into the hands of a weak recipient and they commit sin with it, then that sin comes back to us, the giver. 12. The other person will certainly be affected; it's not that they will completely escape. Otherwise, everyone would do that, take money from Bhaveshbhai and throw it somewhere so that only they fall into the pit, and we all stand outside. But they too will fall into that pit. 13. So, what is the recipient? You say that if you paid a student's fees to please God, then God is pleased. 14. And there is no problem if it was done with the knowledge of God, then there is no big problem. But otherwise, it becomes punya. If God or a devotee of God is not at the center, and we do an act of philanthropy knowing it to be general, then it becomes punya. 15. In any way, if God comes to the center, then it is called bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → 16. So, renouncing self-interest is not important enough. Renouncing self-interest, who receives its benefit? The stronger that center is, the stronger the nishkam karmayog becomes. 17. Otherwise, it won't happen. 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What kind of thought should one have? 26. What kind of thought should one have? What kind of thought should one have? What kind of thought should one have? 27. What kind of thought should one have, Swami, what kind of thought should one have so that our enthusiasm for performing nishkam karmayog keeps increasing day by day, and we constantly remain connected to the idea that my nishkam karmayog is growing and God is pleased? The main purpose of performing nishkam karmayog is to become nirvasanik from this world and connect with God. 28. Many means are described for detaching from this world and connecting with God. For this, Lord Shri Krishna Krishna 1) An avatãr of Bhagvãn. He incarnated in the svarup of a cowherd. This is considered to be a greater avatãr than the others, as Shree Krishna possessed all of the powers of Bhagvãn, whereas other avatãrs possessed less power. Shree Krishna conveyed the message of love and humanity to the world. Also, He recited the epic poem, the Bhagvad Geetã, to Arjun in which He stated: ‘Whenever dharma declines and adharma increases, I shall incarnate myself as a human to save the holy, to destroy the sin of the sinner, and to establish dharma. I come into being from yug to yug’. 2) In the Vachanãmrut, Shreeji Mahãrãj also uses the name “Shree Krishna” to describe Bhagvãn Purushottam Nãrãyan. Tap to open in glossary → 29. Lord Swaminarayan said that serving the devotee of God with nishkam bhava is what we call nishkam seva yog yog The philosophy of focusing and quieting the fluctuations Tap to open in glossary → 30. We mentioned nishkam karmayog here; a very good point was made earlier. That 'annat bhavati bhutani parjanyadan sambhavah. Par yajnat parjanyo' 31. And 'yajnat 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 → akshar akshar 1) Imperishable. In his personal form, Akshar serves Bhagvãn in Akshardhãm, and takes birth on earth as His ideal bhakta (sat-purush). Both forms are human in appearance. In his impersonal form, Akshar is the dhãm of Bhagvãn called Akshardhãm. In his all- pervading anvay form, Akshar is called Chidãkãsh. Tap to open in glossary → 32. And 'tasmat sarvagatam brahma nityam yajne pratishthitam.' God said earlier, 'evam pravartitam chakram,' and all that. God finally said in it, 'sarvagatam tasmat sarvagatam brahma nityam yajne pratishthitam.' 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