Then Nirvikaranand Swami asked a question, "O Maharaj! What are shravan shravan 1) To listen to talks of Bhagvãn through the ears. 2) The term also means the initial intake of gnãn from any of the outer indriyas. In this sense, darshan, intake of gnãn through the eyes, is also considered a form of shravan. However, the intake of gnãn through the process of shravan (listening) must be strengthened with manan (thinking) and nididhyãs (remember) if it is to lead to the sãkshãtkãr (realisation) of that gnãn. Tap to open in glossary → manan manan To think about. Contemplation. To mentally think over a talk, and to discard parts of the talk which are not needed and to retain the parts of the talk which are useful. Tap to open in glossary → "To listen to the discourse with the ears is called shravan shravan 1) To listen to talks of Bhagvãn through the ears. 2) The term also means the initial intake of gnãn from any of the outer indriyas. In this sense, darshan, intake of gnãn through the eyes, is also considered a form of shravan. However, the intake of gnãn through the process of shravan (listening) must be strengthened with manan (thinking) and nididhyãs (remember) if it is to lead to the sãkshãtkãr (realisation) of that gnãn. Tap to open in glossary → mind, one should listen. Whose shravan shravan 1) To listen to talks of Bhagvãn through the ears. 2) The term also means the initial intake of gnãn from any of the outer indriyas. In this sense, darshan, intake of gnãn through the eyes, is also considered a form of shravan. However, the intake of gnãn through the process of shravan (listening) must be strengthened with manan (thinking) and nididhyãs (remember) if it is to lead to the sãkshãtkãr (realisation) of that gnãn. Tap to open in glossary → dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → Everyone does good discourses, but listening from everyone is not called shravan shravan 1) To listen to talks of Bhagvãn through the ears. 2) The term also means the initial intake of gnãn from any of the outer indriyas. In this sense, darshan, intake of gnãn through the eyes, is also considered a form of shravan. However, the intake of gnãn through the process of shravan (listening) must be strengthened with manan (thinking) and nididhyãs (remember) if it is to lead to the sãkshãtkãr (realisation) of that gnãn. Tap to open in glossary → bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → Shravan Shravan 1) To listen to talks of Bhagvãn through the ears. 2) The term also means the initial intake of gnãn from any of the outer indriyas. In this sense, darshan, intake of gnãn through the eyes, is also considered a form of shravan. However, the intake of gnãn through the process of shravan (listening) must be strengthened with manan (thinking) and nididhyãs (remember) if it is to lead to the sãkshãtkãr (realisation) of that gnãn. Tap to open in glossary → bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → Shriji Maharaj said, "To listen to the discourse with the ears is called shravan shravan 1) To listen to talks of Bhagvãn through the ears. 2) The term also means the initial intake of gnãn from any of the outer indriyas. In this sense, darshan, intake of gnãn through the eyes, is also considered a form of shravan. However, the intake of gnãn through the process of shravan (listening) must be strengthened with manan (thinking) and nididhyãs (remember) if it is to lead to the sãkshãtkãr (realisation) of that gnãn. Tap to open in glossary → shravan shravan 1) To listen to talks of Bhagvãn through the ears. 2) The term also means the initial intake of gnãn from any of the outer indriyas. In this sense, darshan, intake of gnãn through the eyes, is also considered a form of shravan. However, the intake of gnãn through the process of shravan (listening) must be strengthened with manan (thinking) and nididhyãs (remember) if it is to lead to the sãkshãtkãr (realisation) of that gnãn. Tap to open in glossary → It should be heard from the mouth of a speaker who is a devotee of God. If the speaker does not have faith, love, and affection for God, then by listening to his discourse, it will not enter into us. So, listen in that way. It should be heard from the mouth of a speaker who is a devotee of God, not from one who is averse to God. Because the shravan shravan 1) To listen to talks of Bhagvãn through the ears. 2) The term also means the initial intake of gnãn from any of the outer indriyas. In this sense, darshan, intake of gnãn through the eyes, is also considered a form of shravan. However, the intake of gnãn through the process of shravan (listening) must be strengthened with manan (thinking) and nididhyãs (remember) if it is to lead to the sãkshãtkãr (realisation) of that gnãn. Tap to open in glossary → shravan shravan 1) To listen to talks of Bhagvãn through the ears. 2) The term also means the initial intake of gnãn from any of the outer indriyas. In this sense, darshan, intake of gnãn through the eyes, is also considered a form of shravan. However, the intake of gnãn through the process of shravan (listening) must be strengthened with manan (thinking) and nididhyãs (remember) if it is to lead to the sãkshãtkãr (realisation) of that gnãn. Tap to open in glossary → Shruti Shruti That which is revealed and heard. Philosophical and spiritual wisdom – as revealed to the rushis after strict tap and deep dhyãn. The four Veds are Shruti shãstras. Tap to open in glossary → In the Shrimad Bhagavatam also, shravan shravan 1) To listen to talks of Bhagvãn through the ears. 2) The term also means the initial intake of gnãn from any of the outer indriyas. In this sense, darshan, intake of gnãn through the eyes, is also considered a form of shravan. However, the intake of gnãn through the process of shravan (listening) must be strengthened with manan (thinking) and nididhyãs (remember) if it is to lead to the sãkshãtkãr (realisation) of that gnãn. Tap to open in glossary → bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → shravan shravan 1) To listen to talks of Bhagvãn through the ears. 2) The term also means the initial intake of gnãn from any of the outer indriyas. In this sense, darshan, intake of gnãn through the eyes, is also considered a form of shravan. However, the intake of gnãn through the process of shravan (listening) must be strengthened with manan (thinking) and nididhyãs (remember) if it is to lead to the sãkshãtkãr (realisation) of that gnãn. Tap to open in glossary → bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → shravan shravan 1) To listen to talks of Bhagvãn through the ears. 2) The term also means the initial intake of gnãn from any of the outer indriyas. In this sense, darshan, intake of gnãn through the eyes, is also considered a form of shravan. However, the intake of gnãn through the process of shravan (listening) must be strengthened with manan (thinking) and nididhyãs (remember) if it is to lead to the sãkshãtkãr (realisation) of that gnãn. Tap to open in glossary → shravan shravan 1) To listen to talks of Bhagvãn through the ears. 2) The term also means the initial intake of gnãn from any of the outer indriyas. In this sense, darshan, intake of gnãn through the eyes, is also considered a form of shravan. However, the intake of gnãn through the process of shravan (listening) must be strengthened with manan (thinking) and nididhyãs (remember) if it is to lead to the sãkshãtkãr (realisation) of that gnãn. Tap to open in glossary → Then Maharaj says, "Reflecting in the mind upon the discourse that has been heard, discarding as much of the discourse as is fit to be discarded, and accepting as much of the discourse as is fit to be accepted, is called manan manan To think about. Contemplation. To mentally think over a talk, and to discard parts of the talk which are not needed and to retain the parts of the talk which are useful. Tap to open in glossary → It comes in the Brahmasutra, right? "One's own scriptures should be studied." So what happens by that? What is the meaning of svadhyay? What is the meaning of "One's own scriptures should be studied"? Svadhyay means knowledge. Svadhyay is the collection of Vedas. And adhyetavyah means to repeat it repeatedly. What happens to him by that? By that, his inclination... immediate knowledge occurs. It happens automatically, immediately. By repeating it repeatedly, immediate knowledge occurs that this is useful to me and this is not useful to me. This is perishable and this is imperishable, such immediate knowledge occurs to him. Then? Then spontaneous inclination occurs in it. So then in mimansa also... then he does its deep mimansa. Likewise, this discourse that has been heard, repeat and repeat, repeat and repeat. So he immediately knows from it that this is useful to me and this is not useful to me. Then in this, he has to do nididhyas. To put it into practice in one's life, like this, that this talk came, let's go, that love for God happens in this way, these are its characteristics, so now how should I put it into practice in my life? So he puts it into practice. He asks a question that if I want to have such love for God, as described by Maharaj in this, then how should I do it? So everything is given in this. To start doing so is called nididhyas. And by doing nididhyas, sakshatkar occurs. The atma indeed should be realized. And vision occurs. That is, sakshatkar occurs. But what is its rule? Manan Manan To think about. Contemplation. To mentally think over a talk, and to discard parts of the talk which are not needed and to retain the parts of the talk which are useful. Tap to open in glossary → shravan shravan 1) To listen to talks of Bhagvãn through the ears. 2) The term also means the initial intake of gnãn from any of the outer indriyas. In this sense, darshan, intake of gnãn through the eyes, is also considered a form of shravan. However, the intake of gnãn through the process of shravan (listening) must be strengthened with manan (thinking) and nididhyãs (remember) if it is to lead to the sãkshãtkãr (realisation) of that gnãn. Tap to open in glossary → Not listening for ten hours and reflecting for one hour. After listening for one hour, one should reflect for ten hours. And what has been reflected upon for ten hours, in that, do nididhyas for up to a hundred hours, put it into practice. Only then it barely comes. Still, some of it is missed. And then, after doing nididhyas, sakshatkar is endless. That became endless. If he does nididhyas in those hundred hours, it is not necessary that sakshatkar will happen for a thousand hours. That happens endlessly. He has to keep doing nididhyas. 1:10. That is, at least ten hours he has to reflect upon it. And if he reflects, its meaning is revealed. Otherwise, the meaning is not revealed. So there is a measure for it. Maharaj, do not many say that we have heard so many discourses. Listening to discourses for a hundred hours, Maharaj has said in this for up to a lakh of years. Even if one listens for a lakh of years, nothing happens, he has said to have darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → Darshan Darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → Then remember for fifty minutes. Remembering is 1:10, right? And then what is the practical thing to do? While walking and moving, out of those fifty minutes, remember for five hundred minutes while walking and moving. Then indeed he remembers. Then it becomes endless. So 1:10 we have made, not that it is said in the scriptures. At least this much has to be done. At least, if one does more, it is a good thing. If one is reflecting, is it just to repeat or what? Just repetition, nothing else. What is said in "One's own scriptures should be studied"? Then just to master it and keep repeating it. No problem, just keep repeating it. Just keep repeating it. All other work will happen on its own. Immediate knowledge occurs to him. Then the intellect that is seated does not remain idle. If we do this, this happens, and if we do this, this happens, and it does all this on its own. We have to do repetition. Such is this in that purvapaksha... eh? Uttarapaksha Laghusiddhanta, the principle of Laghusiddhanta, purvapaksha, in that Laghusiddhanta, Ramanujacharya said so. That in doing repetition, as much as the intellect is active, it will do the work on its own. What is in our intellect, when we are doing repetition, then it is not just repetition happening, other things are sitting and doing everything on top of it. The mind and all these, while doing repetition, they are all active. And the intellect is especially active. So it selects as much as it wants from it. We should do repetition as much as possible, the more repetition one does, the more clarification occurs. So all those, are they not in the Vedic Vedic From the Veds. Tap to open in glossary → When he does nididhyas, then such mimansa is going to happen automatically. And when mimansa happens, then sakshatkar occurs. So in this, repeat, repeat and repeat, nothing else. If it is reflection on the discourse, then repeat and repeat. If it is darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → manan manan To think about. Contemplation. To mentally think over a talk, and to discard parts of the talk which are not needed and to retain the parts of the talk which are useful. Tap to open in glossary → 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