Vartal
- Vadtãl 1→Shobha-Ram Shastri asks what happens to a mumukshu who does not attain nirvikalp samadhi, since attaining it (via controlling the prans) is said to make a perso…
- Vadtãl 2→Kãndãsji Patel asks how Bhagvãn becomes pleased; Maharaj answers that Bhagvãn is pleased when a person doesn't "insult" Him by misattributing His role as creato…
- Vadtãl 3→Poses the question of which quality — righteous conduct (dharma), knowledge, detachment, or devotion (bhakti) — is most essential if a devotee cannot perfect al…
- Vadtãl 4→States that the one spiritual practice that encompasses all others needed for liberation is keeping close company — in thought, word, and deed — with a sant pos…
- Vadtãl 5→Muktãnand Swãmi asks, citing the Gita's teaching that Bhagvãn's guna-based Mãyã can only be crossed by those who take refuge in Him, why even someone who has at…
- Vadtãl 6→Chiman-Rãvji asks whether the creation of jeevs' bodies and life-forms after cosmic destruction happens due to karma (which would validate Jain philosophy) or d…
- Vadtãl 7→In a discussion about religious versus demonic people, Chiman-Ravji asks whether a demonic person can ever become religious.
- Vadtãl 8→Shreeji Mahãrãj explains that the eye's vrutti (mental focus), though seemingly formless, is actually physical in nature (predominantly composed of the tattva o…
- Vadtãl 9→Shreeji Mahãrãj asks the munis how a person can experience the nirgun bliss of Bhagvãn, similar to how the three kinds of mãyik pleasures (rãjas, tãmasi, sãttvi…
- Vadtãl 10→Asked how the jeev attains liberation, Swaminarayan explains that Bhagwan takes avatar on earth in one of two forms: as a king, possessing thirty-nine kingly ch…
- Vadtãl 11→Maharaj states his nature is to fear harming only four: Bhagwan, a bhakta of Bhagwan, a brahman, and a humble person, because harming anyone else destroys only…
- Vadtãl 12→Central teaching: firm nishchay (conviction) in Bhagwan, Purushottam who resides in Akshardham and assumes avatars like Ram and Krishna for the kalyan of jeevs,…
- Vadtãl 13→Explains that samãdhi occurs because God's incarnate form, though appearing humanlike, carries an innate divine power (compared to a magnetic rock among ordinar…
- Vadtãl 14→Rãm-Chandra Vãghmodiã asks why a person who seems unworthy (one who disobeys the dharma of his varna and ãshram) can still attain samãdhi.
- Vadtãl 15→Shobhã-Rãm Shãstri asks Shreeji Mahãrãj whether religious and demonic jeevs have always existed as such since eternity, or become that way through association.
- Vadtãl 16→A shãstri from Vadodarã suggests that if Shreeji Mahãrãj shows a miracle to some worldly, renowned man, it would benefit the growth of satsang.
- Vadtãl 17→Maharaj poses a question: since a person with gnan and a person without gnan behave identically through their indriyas physically, how can the person with gnan…
- Vadtãl 18→States that a satsangi should know five essential facts about the sampraday: it is the Uddhav Sampraday with its own customs; the guru lineage (Ramanand Swami a…
- Vadtãl 19→After the sandhyã ãrti, Shreeji Mahãrãj says that whenever a jeev attains a human body in Bharat-Khand, Bhagvãn's avatãrs or sãdhus are also present on earth at…
- Vadtãl 20→Swaminarayan asks which single spiritual activity totally uproots the seeds of kam, krodh, and lobh; when Shuk Muni answers that attaining nirvikalp samadhi and…