Daily Satsang

15 Aug 2014, Shravan Vad Chhath Samvat 2070
Independence Day

Murti Darshan

Shri Akshar Purushottam Maharaj, Mahelav, India

Swamishri's Darshan

Param Pujya Pramukh Swami Maharaj

પ્રેરણા પરિમલ

એ જ કરવા આવ્યા છીએ...

ભોજન દરમ્યાન રાજકોટના કાર્યકરોએ સ્વામીશ્રી સમક્ષ 'અક્ષરપુરુષોત્તમ સિદ્ધાંતના પ્રવર્તક શાસ્ત્રીજી મહારાજ' વિષયક ગોષ્ઠિ રજૂ કરી. સ્વામીશ્રી આ ગોષ્ઠિ જોઈને ખૂબ રાજી થયા અને કહે, 'આપણે તો કાયમ એની એ જ વાત કરવાની છે - અક્ષર અને પુરુષોત્તમ... અક્ષર અને પુરુષોત્તમ... જેમ રોજ ભાત-દાળ અને શાક ખાઈએછીએ ને ! બીજુ કાંઈ થાય છે ? એમ આ વાત કરે જ છૂટકો છે.'
આટલું કહેતાં સામે બેઠેલા દામજીભાઈ ટાંકને કહે, 'તમે આૅફિસે જઈને શું કરો છો? ટેલિફોનનું જ કામ ને?'
'હા. એ જ ને.'
'બીજે દહાડે શું કરવાનું ?'
'એ જ.'
એટલે સ્વામીશ્રી કેફથી કહે, 'આ પણ એવું જ છે. જેમ ટેલિફોનનું કામ કરવામાં કોઈ દિવસ કંટાળો આવતો નથી, એમ આકામ કરવામાં પણ કંટાળો આવવો ન જોઈએ. આપણે એ જ કરવાનું છે. અને એ જ કરવા આવ્યા છીએ.'
સ્વામીશ્રીએ સિદ્ધાંત પ્રવર્તન માટે સૌને ખૂબ પ્રોત્સાહિત કર્યા.

Vachanamrut Gems

Gadhadã II-65: Without Bhakti, Atma-Realisation and Vairagya are Useless

“A sãdhu who has attained ãtmã-realisation also possesses intense vairãgya; due to both of these virtues, he will not become attached to anything in any way. However, if he does not possess bhakti towards God, it is as good as preparing many different types of food dishes but not adding salt; i.e., all would be tasteless. In the same way, without the bhakti of God, ãtmã-realisation and vairãgya alone are simply useless; one can never attain liberation through them.”

[Gadhadã II-65]

Shravan Vad Chhath in history

V.S.

Date

Day

Event

1856	21 Aug 1799	Wednesday	Nilkanth Varni meets Muktanand Swami at Loj

1876	29 Aug 1820	Tuesday	Vachanamrut Sarangpur-2 Shriji Maharaj praises Kushalkuvarba, Queen of Dharampur, for the way she engages in darshan of God, “While doing darshan of God one should not look from side to side. The novelty and divinity experienced in one’s heart at the time of the first darshan of God should remain exactly the same. Moreover, one should look at the form with a fixed gaze and then closing one’s eyes, one should internalise that form exactly as it is in one’s heart. For example, in Dharmapur, Kushalkuvarbai did my darshan, and at the same time, closed her eyes and internalised the form in her heart. Similarly, one should do darshan while keeping an attentive mind and a fixed gaze, but one should not do darshan as other ordinary people do. If, along with the darshan of God, one also looks at other people, cats, or dogs, then when one has a dream, one sees not only God, but also those other objects. That is why one should do darshan of God with a fixed gaze, not with a wandering gaze. One who does darshan of God while keeping one’s sight under control will feel that darshan to be continually novel.”

1877	19 Aug 1821	Sunday	Vachanamrut Gadhada II-12 The soul is essentially pure but has forgotten its real form. Shriji Maharaj describes, “The jiva, which resides in the body, feels, ‘Lust, anger and other vicious natures are attached to my jiva.’ In this manner, depending on which of the vicious natures, i.e., lust, anger, avarice, etc., is predominant in a person, he believes his jiva to be full of that nature due to his association with it. But, in fact, not a single one of these vicious natures lies within the jiva; the jiva has merely believed itself to possess them out of its own foolishness.”

1878	8 Aug 1822	Thursday	Vachanamrut Gadhada II-25 Shriji Maharaj explains how worldly desires can be eradicated, “If one becomes addicted to serving God and His Sant to the extent that one would not be able to stay for even a moment without serving them, then all of the impure desires in one’s antahkaran will be destroyed.”