In this Vachanamrut, Shreeji Maharaj has asked a question: If a devotee is following the dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, 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 → dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, 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 → bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → Due to the strength of time and political trends, the eradication of untouchability cannot be achieved, and if one does so, bhakti bhakti Devotion to Bhagvãn. One of the four attributes of ekãntik dharma. There are nine types of bhakti: Tap to open in glossary → That is, it is not that if untouchability is eradicated, 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 → dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → Or when some other such situation arises, what should be done? Then Brahmanand Swami answered that whatever pleases God should be kept, and the other should be abandoned. Finding Swami's answer incomplete, Maharaj asked another question to clarify further: When God has taken an avatar and is manifest in human form, then doing so is fine. At that time, leave it to Him and do what pleases Him. But when God is not physically present in human form, what should be done? If we have to make a judgment, on what basis should we make it? If the judgment falls upon us, that you make the judgment on what to do, then what should be done? As the sadhus could not answer, Maharaj answered: When a difficult time comes and neither dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, 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 → dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, 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 → One is that if they just walk around with a rosary in hand, they think they have become ekantik. That is, external activities. If one performs proper worship of God and follows the rules of God, then it is ekantik dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → And while maintaining external activities, one must also do the inner work. Internally, one must cling to the murti murti 1) Sacred idol of Bhagvãn used to offer worship. There are eight types of murtis that can be worshipped: stone, wood, metal, earth, engraved or drawn, sand, gems, and mental. 2) The form of Bhagvãn. 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 → If the external activities are followed perfectly, but internally one is not properly attached to the murti murti 1) Sacred idol of Bhagvãn used to offer worship. There are eight types of murtis that can be worshipped: stone, wood, metal, earth, engraved or drawn, sand, gems, and mental. 2) The form of Bhagvãn. 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 → If internally one is perfectly attached to the murti murti 1) Sacred idol of Bhagvãn used to offer worship. There are eight types of murtis that can be worshipped: stone, wood, metal, earth, engraved or drawn, sand, gems, and mental. 2) The form of Bhagvãn. 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 → dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → Therefore, the life force of ekantik dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → murti murti 1) Sacred idol of Bhagvãn used to offer worship. There are eight types of murtis that can be worshipped: stone, wood, metal, earth, engraved or drawn, sand, gems, and mental. 2) The form of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → Ekantik dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → But who has to remember all this? Who has to remember? Huh? Who has to become ekantik? So do you want to become ekantik or not? Do you want to? Oh, your courage! Do you want to become ekantik? What about Swami? He doesn't want to. Who would become that? Yes, let's go. Ekantik dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → We will manage to go, otherwise nothing. No one has made such a resolution. It is a very big name, so we are called nirmani. Devotees who are nirmani should not keep such a big desire. Now, sadhus are said to be more nirmani, so they should not keep such a big desire. True. Due to the adversity of place and time, the external body can be affected, but place and time cannot affect the mental ekantik dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → murti murti 1) Sacred idol of Bhagvãn used to offer worship. There are eight types of murtis that can be worshipped: stone, wood, metal, earth, engraved or drawn, sand, gems, and mental. 2) The form of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → Now, whether one has forgotten or not is not known to anyone, but in one's own mind, one thinks, 'I forgot the murti murti 1) Sacred idol of Bhagvãn used to offer worship. There are eight types of murtis that can be worshipped: stone, wood, metal, earth, engraved or drawn, sand, gems, and mental. 2) The form of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → Due to the adversity of place and time, the external body can be affected, but place and time cannot affect the mental ekantik dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, 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 → He must take measures for it. One who has developed the desire that 'I want to become ekantik' must take measures for it. In that, there is no excuse like 'the place and time were like this for me, and like this for me, and like this for me.' Maharaj has dismissed it. There is no need for that. To whatever extent place and time cause a break, what is it due to? Due to one's own incomplete desire and incomplete effort. No one else is to blame for it. God is not to blame, nor is the external place and time to blame, and one should not blame anyone. Maharaj says so. Therefore, in whose heart the establishment of ekantik dharma dharma 1) Universal law or principle that 'sustains' or 'upholds' the entire world. Righteousness, morality, religion, Tap to open in glossary → What if a dying man man Mind. One of the four antah-karans, with the function of (pronounced mun) generating thoughts and desires, and governing all of the indriyas. 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