Daily Satsang

22 Aug 2019, Shravan Vad Chhath Samvat 2075

Murti Darshan

Shri Ghanshyam Maharaj, Washington DC, MD, USA

Swamishri's Darshan

Param Pujya Pramukh Swami Maharaj

પ્રેરણા પરિમલ

બ્રહ્મસ્વરૂપ પ્રમુખસ્વામી મહારાજની પ્રેરક પ્રસંગ-સ્મૃતિઓ

તા. 5-8-2010
ભોજન દરમ્યાન આણંદ મંદિરના સંતોએ દર્શનનો લાભ લીધો. ભોજન પછી જ્યારે સૌ ઊભા થયા અને સ્વામીશ્રીને પગે લાગીને વિદાય થયા એ વખતે પૂર્ણ-સ્વરૂપ સ્વામીને બોલાવીને સંતો કહે : ‘આ પૂર્ણસ્વરૂપ સ્વામી જૂના જૂના કુટુંબના હરિભક્તો છે, એ બધાનું ખૂબ ધ્યાન રાખે છે. મંદિરે બોલાવે, આરતીમાં-સભામાં આવે એ માટે ખટકો રાખીને બોલાવે છે. સરભરા સારી કરે છે. સૌને મંદિરે આવતા કરી દીધા છે.’
તેઓના આ અંગથી સ્વામીશ્રી રાજી થયા અને કહે : ‘નવા આવે, પણ જૂના જતા રહે છે. એટલે એ બધાને ખાસ બોલાવવા.’
આમ, કહીને આણંદમાં રહેતા શાસ્ત્રીજી મહારાજના સમયના હરિભક્તોનાં કુટુંબોને યાદ કરતા ગયા. લગભગ પંદરથી વીસ મિનિટ સુધી આ સ્મૃતિ સ્વામીશ્રીએ કરી.

Vachanamrut Gems

Gadhadã II-50.6: My Personal Principle

“Furthermore, I do not wish to leave any trace of the world in the hearts of whosoever keeps My company. Why? Because I get along only with those whose resolve is similar to Mine. But if one has desires for worldly pleasures, then even if I try to develop affection for that person, I cannot do so. Thus, only those devotees of God who are free of worldly desires are dear to Me. What I have just told you is My personal principle.”

[Gadhadã II-50.6]

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.”