Daily Satsang

21 Aug 2019, Shravan Vad Chhath Samvat 2075

Murti Darshan

Shri Akshar Purushottam Maharaj, Albany, NY, USA

Swamishri's Darshan

Param Pujya Pramukh Swami Maharaj

પ્રેરણા પરિમલ

બ્રહ્મસ્વરૂપ પ્રમુખસ્વામી મહારાજની પ્રેરક પ્રસંગ-સ્મૃતિઓ

તા. 5-8-2010, બોચાસણ
મુલાકાત દરમ્યાન હંમેશાં સમયની ખેંચાખેંચી રહેતી હોય છે, કારણ કે નિશ્ચિત સમયમાં અપાતી મુલાકાતોના પ્રમાણમાં રોજ હરિભક્તોની સંખ્યા વધારે જ હોય છે. આ સંદર્ભમાં જ સ્વામીશ્રી જ્યારે રૂમમાં પધાર્યા ત્યારે હરિવલ્લભ સ્વામી કહે : ‘ભગવાન એક અને ભક્તો અનેક, શું કરવંુ ? કઈ રીતે પહોંચી વળવું ?’
સ્વામીશ્રી કહે : ‘ભગવાન એક છે, પણ બધે પહોંચી વળે એમ છે. જળમાં, સ્થળમાં બધે જ છે ને ! જ્ઞાન થાય તો બધે જ દેખાય, નહીં તો ન દેખાય.’

Vachanamrut Gems

Jetalpur-4: Liberation through Focusing one's Vruttis on God

" ... In this manner, if all of one's vruttis are focused on the form of God, then one can attain liberation even with a feeling of enmity towards God.
For example, when the vruttis of Shishupal, Kansa and others became became completely engrossed in Shri Krishna, they attained liberation. But if a person does not know how to bear malice towards God in this manner then he is consigned to narak. Rather than this, it is much easier to engage in the bhakti of God. Conversely, though, one who worships God with such a malignant intellect will never cease to be called demonic and can in no way be called a devotee."

[Jetalpur-4]

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.”