Daily Satsang

28 Dec 2011, Posh Sud Choth Samvat 2068

Murti Darshan

Bhagwan Swaminarayan, Aksharbrahman Gunatitanand Swami and Shri Gopalanand Swami, Gadhada, India

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Param Pujya Pramukh Swami Maharaj

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યુટાહ રાજ્યના ...

તા. ૨૮ જૂન, ૨૦૦૭, હ્યુસ્ટન
યુટાહ રાજ્યના ગેસ અને ઓઈલ કંપનીના માંધાતા ડેનિયલ કુકે સ્વામીશ્રીને પ્રશ્ન પૂછ્યો : 'હું આદર્શ પિતા અને આદર્શ પતિ કઈ રીતે બની શકું?'
સ્વામીશ્રી : 'નિયમો પાળવા પડે તો ઘરમાં સંપ રહે. તમારાં પત્ની અને તમારા વચ્ચે પ્રેમ રહે એ માટે બાંધછોડ કરતા શીખવું પડે. બાળકો અને પત્નીને સમય આપવો, રોજ સાથે બેસીને ઘરસભા કરવી. પરિવાર સાથે હળવું-મળવું અને સારા ગ્રંથોનું વાંચન કરવું.' સ્વામીશ્રીએ સામાજિક જીવનની સફળતાનાં રહસ્યો, સૂત્ર તેઓને આપ્યાં.

Vachanamrut Gems

Gadhadã II-13: The Very Essence of all the Scriptures

“… Moreover, this principle that He is God is so vital that you should remember it daily for the rest of your lives; in fact, even after you leave this body and attain a divine form, you should recall it. Indeed, this principle which I have revealed before you is the very essence of all of the scriptures, and it is My own firm experience; I have talked to you having seen it with My very own eyes. In fact, I swear by all of you paramhansas that I have seen these facts with My own eyes.”

[Gadhadã II-13]

Posh Sud Choth in history

V.S.

Date

Day

Event

1876	20 Dec 1819	Monday	Vachanamrut Gadhada I-22 Shriji Maharaj emphasizes the need to constantly remember God to attain peace of mind, “If one does not remember God while singing to the accompaniment of a mrudang, sarangi, sarod, tal or other instruments, then that singing is as good as not having been sung at all. Besides, there are many people in this world who sing and play instruments without remembering God; but they do not attain peace of mind. Therefore, whichever activity one performs – whether it be singing devotional songs, reciting God’s holy name, chanting the ‘Narayan’ dhunya, etc. – one should only perform that activity while remembering the form of God.”

1880	5 Jan 1824	Wednesday	Vachanamrut Gadhada II-43 Shriji Maharaj says, “Only one who has love for God having become gunatit, is brahmaswarup [i.e. brahamrup].”

1880	5 Jan 1825	Monday	Vachanamrut Gadhada II-66 Shriji Maharaj describes what happens to a devotee who has attained the association of the manifest form of God, “While alive, a person who has attained God and His Sant spends his days and nights engrossed in spiritual discourses, devotional songs, etc., related to God. He also has the direct realisation of his jivatma, which transcends the three states7, as being brahmarup. With the exception of God, he develops vairagya for all other objects. Also, he discards adharma and abides by dharma. “When that devotee dies, God makes him just like Himself.”

1882	12 Jan 1826	Thursday	Vachanamrut Vartal-8 Describing a method of meditation, Shriji Maharaj says, “When one wishes to offer puja to a deity, the deity accepts the puja only after one becomes as pure as the deity. Similarly, one who keeps his vrutti on God’s form should, according to the method prescribed in the Sankhya scriptures, realise his own self to be distinct from the three bodies – sthul, sukshma and karan; and only after attaining atma-realisation, should he fix his vrutti on God’s form. While repeatedly fixing his vrutti in such a manner, when his vrutti is eventually absorbed into God’s form, that state has been defined as sleep for a meditating yogi; but a yogi’s sleep is never like the state of being eclipsed during deep sleep.”

2057	29 Dec 2000	Friday	Murti-pratishtha at Navkhal

2060	26 Dec 2003	Friday	Murti-pratishtha at Coimbatore

2061	29 Jan 2005	Saturday	Murti-pratishtha at Kangvi