Sarangpur
- Sãrangpur 1→Answers how to know if the mind is truly "conquered": when the senses fully withdraw from all five sense-objects (sound, touch, form, taste, smell) with no rema…
- Sãrangpur 2→Svayamprakãshãnand Swãmi asks how a bhakta develops intense love for Bhagvãn's murti; Shreeji Mahãrãj distinguishes love arising from beauty, lust, greed, or se…
- Sãrangpur 3→Svayamprakashanand Swami asks whether physical puja of the directly-manifest Bhagwan or mansi puja (mental puja with imagined items) is better; Maharaj answers…
- Sãrangpur 4→Answers how to clearly distinguish the soul (ãtmã) from the non-soul (the body): one must firmly grasp that none of the body's qualities belong to the self, and…
- Sãrangpur 5→Muktãnand Swãmi asks which single method of eradicating worldly desires is powerful enough to include all other methods.
- Sãrangpur 6→Nityãnand Swãmi asks how the three mental states — jãgrat, svapna, and sushupti — reside within one another.
- Sãrangpur 7→While the first skandh of the Shreemad Bhãgvat Purãn is being read in the sabhã, the text states that wherever the jagged edges of the "manomay chakra" wear awa…
- Sãrangpur 8→Chaitanyãnand Swãmi asks Shreeji Mahãrãj what the characteristics of irshyã are.
- Sãrangpur 9→Explains that the mythological "ages" (yugs) manifest within a person's own heart according to which of the three fundamental qualities (gunas) predominates: pu…
- Sãrangpur 10→Contrasts people who live righteously (avoiding theft, adultery, and slander out of fear of God, and so are trusted by everyone and drawn to true sants) with th…
- Sãrangpur 11→Muktanand Swami asks how much of attaining kalyan is achieved by personal effort versus Bhagvan's grace; Swaminarayan explains that personal effort (firm vairag…
- Sãrangpur 12→Nirvikaranand Swami asks which qualities constantly remain in a sadhu versus which come and go; Maharaj answers that atma-nishtha, svadharma, and nishchay in Bh…
- Sãrangpur 13→Muktanand Swami asks whether someone who once had conviction in Bhagwan but later lost it can be said to have truly had it in the first place.
- Sãrangpur 14→Svayamprakãshãnand Swãmi asks what flaw causes a bhakta to fall back from Bhagvãn's dhãm; Maharaj challenges the examples given (Jay-Vijay, Rãdhikãji) and reint…
- Sãrangpur 15→Shreeji Mahãrãj poses a question comparing two devotees - one whose obvious, intense love makes him unable to bear a moment without darshan but who lacks knowle…
- Sãrangpur 16→Paramãnand Swãmi asks why not everyone attains kalyãn, given that the Shreemad Bhãgvat says Nar-Nãrãyan Rushi performs tap in Badrikãshram for the kalyãn and ha…
- Sãrangpur 17→Teaches that as a worshipper's sense of his own limitation grows, his realization of God's boundless greatness deepens correspondingly, and his loving attachmen…
- Sãrangpur 18→Swaminarayan teaches that shraddhã in a true sant's words develops svadharma, vairãgya, gnãn, bhakti, and wisdom while burning away vices, whereas shraddhã in k…