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  1. Sãrangpur 1Answers 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…
  2. Sãrangpur 2Svayamprakãshãnand Swãmi asks how a bhakta develops intense love for Bhagvãn's murti; Shreeji Mahãrãj distinguishes love arising from beauty, lust, greed, or se…
  3. Sãrangpur 3Svayamprakashanand Swami asks whether physical puja of the directly-manifest Bhagwan or mansi puja (mental puja with imagined items) is better; Maharaj answers…
  4. Sãrangpur 4Answers 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…
  5. Sãrangpur 5Muktãnand Swãmi asks which single method of eradicating worldly desires is powerful enough to include all other methods.
  6. Sãrangpur 6Nityãnand Swãmi asks how the three mental states — jãgrat, svapna, and sushupti — reside within one another.
  7. Sãrangpur 7While 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…
  8. Sãrangpur 8Chaitanyãnand Swãmi asks Shreeji Mahãrãj what the characteristics of irshyã are.
  9. Sãrangpur 9Explains that the mythological "ages" (yugs) manifest within a person's own heart according to which of the three fundamental qualities (gunas) predominates: pu…
  10. Sãrangpur 10Contrasts 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…
  11. Sãrangpur 11Muktanand Swami asks how much of attaining kalyan is achieved by personal effort versus Bhagvan's grace; Swaminarayan explains that personal effort (firm vairag…
  12. Sãrangpur 12Nirvikaranand Swami asks which qualities constantly remain in a sadhu versus which come and go; Maharaj answers that atma-nishtha, svadharma, and nishchay in Bh…
  13. Sãrangpur 13Muktanand 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.
  14. Sãrangpur 14Svayamprakãshãnand Swãmi asks what flaw causes a bhakta to fall back from Bhagvãn's dhãm; Maharaj challenges the examples given (Jay-Vijay, Rãdhikãji) and reint…
  15. Sãrangpur 15Shreeji 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…
  16. Sãrangpur 16Paramãnand 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…
  17. Sãrangpur 17Teaches that as a worshipper's sense of his own limitation grows, his realization of God's boundless greatness deepens correspondingly, and his loving attachmen…
  18. Sãrangpur 18Swaminarayan teaches that shraddhã in a true sant's words develops svadharma, vairãgya, gnãn, bhakti, and wisdom while burning away vices, whereas shraddhã in k…