Daily Satsang

27 Aug 2013, Shravan Vad Satam Samvat 2069

Murti Darshan

Shri Akshar Purushottam Maharaj, Washington DC, MD, USA

Swamishri's Darshan

Param Pujya Pramukh Swami Maharaj

પ્રેરણા પરિમલ

યોગીચરિતમ્ - ૯૦

મુંબઈ, તા. ૬-૭-'૬૧
ડૉ. ઇન્દ્રવદન મહેતા બપોરે દર્શને આવ્યા હતા ત્યારે યોગીજી મહારાજ તેમને કહે, 'તમારે રોજ દર્શન દેવા આવવું.'
'એમને પરીક્ષા છે,' સ્વયંપ્રકાશ સ્વામીએ કહ્યું.
'એ તો અમારા આશીર્વાદથી પાસ થઈ જશે. વાંચવાથી કાંઈ પાસ થવાના નથી, માટે આવવું.' સ્વામીશ્રીએ નિશ્ચલતાથી કહ્યું. કારણ, પુરુષાર્થનું ફળ આપનારા જે પુરુષ છે, તેના વચને પુરુષાર્થ વગર પણ ઉત્તમ ફળની પ્રાપ્તિ થઈ શકે છે અને એમના વચન એ જ પુરુષાર્થ બને છે - એ સૂર સ્વામીશ્રીના શબ્દોમાં હતો, ફક્ત એમના વચનમાં વિશ્વાસ જોઈએ.

- સાધુ ઈશ્વરચરણદાસ

Vachanamrut Gems

Loyã-1: Highest Level of Vairagya

"Now, if a person with the highest level of vairãgya were to come across women and other worldly objects even in solitude, he would not be enticed. Such a person can be considered to be one with the highest level of vairãgya."

[Loyã-1]

Shravan Vad Satam in history

V.S.

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Event

1876	30 Aug 1820	Wednesday	Vachanamrut Sarangpur-3 Shriji Maharaj gives the definitions of shravan, manan, nididhyas and sakshatkar, “To listen to a talk through one’s ears is known as ‘shravan’. Then, having heard the talk, to mentally ponder over the talk, and to discard that part of the talk which is fit to be discarded and to retain that part of the talk which is fit to be retained is known as ‘manan’. Then, having mentally retained the talk with conviction, the practice of continuously recalling the talk day and night is known as ‘nididhyas’. Finally, when one can recall that talk exactly as it was – as if it were manifest before one – with absolute clarity and spontaneity, that is known as ‘sakshatkar’.”

1880	17 Aug 1824	Tuesday	Vachanamrut Gadhada II-61 In this Vachanamrut, Shriji Maharaj describes three important qualities of a true devotee, “The first is to strictly adhere to the niyams prescribed by one’s Ishtadev – to such an extent that one would never forsake those disciplines even at the cost of one’s life. The second is to have extremely firm faith in God, so much so that one would never sway from it even if others or one’s own mind were to raise doubts. The third is to be loyal to those Vaishnav devotees who worship one’s Ishtadev – just as parents are loyal to their children, a son is loyal to his father, and a wife is loyal to her husband. One who possesses these three attributes completely can be called a staunch satsangi.”