Daily Satsang

20 Aug 2011, Shravan Vad Chhath Samvat 2067

Murti Darshan

Shri Akshar Purushottam Maharaj, Columbus, OH, USA

Swamishri's Darshan

Param Pujya Pramukh Swami Maharaj

પ્રેરણા પરિમલ

સ્વભાવ ટળશે તો જ શાંતિ થશે...

(તા. ૨-૫-૨૦૦૮, સારંગપુર)
પરદેશથી એક મહિલાનો પત્ર હતો. તેઓએ લખ્યું હતું કે મારા પતિની હૃદયના વાલ્વની સર્જરી સારી રીતે થઈ, પણ હમણાં ઘણા સમયથી મંદિરે આવતા નથી ને હરિભક્તોનો અભાવ લે છે. હું પોતે પણ કાર્યકર તરીકે સેવા તો આપું છું, પણ હું પોતે પણ અભાવ લઉં છુ. ઘરમાં પણ ખૂબ ઝઘડા થાય છે. એકબીજાનો દોષ કાઢીને ઝઘડીએ છીએ. હવે દયા કરો. મારાં જ સંતાનોને ગુસ્સાના આવેગમાં ઢોરની જેમ વર્તન કરી નાખું છુ. મને અને મારા પતિને ગુસ્સો આવે ત્યારે વાણીનો વિવેક છૂટી જાય છે. ગુસ્સો ન આવે એવું કરો.'
પત્રનો ઉત્તર આપતાં સ્વામીશ્રીએ લખાવ્યું: 'સ્વભાવ ટળશે તો જ શાંતિ થશે. એમને લખજો કે ગુસ્સો આવે ત્યારે સ્વામિનારાયણ... સ્વામિનારાયણ... ભજન કરવું અને બેમાંથી એક જણે ત્યાંથી નીકળી જવું.'

Vachanamrut Gems

Loyã-10: Eradicating one's Flaws Through Bhakti and Knowledge

“… Similarly, to such a person with gnãn, all objects become vain, and due to that gnãn, his vision becomes broad. A person with such an understanding becomes happy.”

[Loyã-10]

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.”