3.1 In the Samvat year 1882, in the early morning of Chaitra sud 5 [12th April 1826], Swãmi Shree Sahajãnandji Mahãrãj arrived in the garden on the western side of the mansion, the place of His residence, in Jetalpur. Under a large bordi tree within the garden, He was sitting facing east on a decorated bedstead, with a large, cylindrical pillow, that had been placed on a platform. He was dressed entirely in white clothes. He was also wearing garlands of champã, borsali, and guldãvadi flowers around His neck, and tassels of chameli and dolariyã flowers were hanging from His pãgh. Bunches of hajãri flowers had been placed upon His ears. In addition to this, He was playing with a pomegranate and a lemon with both hands. Muktãnand Swãmi, Brahmãnand Swãmi, and other munis, as well as haribhaktas from various places, had gathered before Him in a sabhã.
3.2 Shreeji Mahãrãj first thought for a while, and then said, “Everyone please listen, as I wish to speak to you. For bhaktas of Bhagvãn, there is nothing worse than having impure desires. This is because bhaktas who have such impure desires, even if they stay near me, cannot be happy. In fact, before engaging in the worship of Bhagvãn, they asked, ‘Mahãrãj, please keep us near you’. However, because they did not eradicate their impure desires, they are miserable.”
3.3 Then, Muktãnand Swãmi asked, “Mahãrãj, how are those impure desires eradicated?”
3.4 Shreeji Mahãrãj explained, “The method for eradicating impure desires is as follows: Firstly, whenever a person entertains a thought which disobeys the rules of dharma that have been laid down by me, or whenever he thinks cruelly of a sãdhu or a grahastha, he should repeatedly chant ‘Nar-Nãrãyan, Swãminãrãyan’ aloud. Secondly, he should offer to Bhagvãn the nine types of bhakti coupled with knowledge of His greatness and the observance of dharma. As a result, Bhagvãn resides in his heart and destroys the impure desires. In fact, just as Bhagvãn freed the elephant from the crocodile’s mouth, in the same way, this method that I have just revealed to you will eradicate your impure desires.
3.5 “Now, I shall tell you another method which will benefit all of you, so please listen. A person should never intentionally disobey the rules of dharma related to his vartmãns. If a person does so unknowingly, he should immediately perform prãyshchit for disobeying the vartmãns.
3.6 “In addition, a person should realise his own self to be the witness; ‘I am the ãtmã, which is full of chaitanya; it is beyond all thoughts and reason. This body, which is accompanied by the mind, is not actually my true svarup’.
3.7 “Furthermore, if Bhagvãn smiles at someone, or if Bhagvãn calls someone, or if He performs any other sort of action, he should never develop hatred towards Him. A person should absorb this form of understanding. However, someone may feel, ‘I have worshipped Mahãrãj a lot, and I have also performed a great deal of sevã; still, Mahãrãj does not talk to me. Instead, He talks to others a lot. So, I might as well worship Bhagvãn while sitting at home’. In this way, he develops hatred towards Bhagvãn. In that case, I could also believe, ‘What does this person have to do with me?’ As a result, that person’s future would be uncertain. However, I myself do not look at anyone’s avgun. In fact, my nature is such that I always look only at people’s gun.
3.8 “Now, I shall tell you how that bhakta should perceive gun and eradicate avgun. If he thinks, ‘What was I like before I came into satsang? Well, I experienced kãl, karma, birth, death, and the cycle of births and deaths. So, how can I develop hatred towards Bhagvãn who has freed me from all of that, who has made me fearless, and who has helped me progress by bestowing noble qualities upon me? How can I ignore His wishes and do as I please?’ A bhakta becomes happy only when he stops hating Bhagvãn by thinking in this way.
3.9 “In fact, with the body, nothing is greater than to do as Bhagvãn likes. That in itself is bhakti. In fact, only by doing this does a person attain Bhagvãn. That is why vicious natures, such as mãn, irshyã, kãm, krodh, and lobh, are all obstacles on the path of kalyãn and should be discarded.
3.10 “Of those vicious natures, mãn is absolutely the worst of all. Just look, a person who has a minor flaw in any other vartmãn still manages to survive in satsang, whereas those who had mãn have never been able to survive. Therefore, sãdhus must never allow any lapse in the observance of the vartmãns and remaining without mãn. Be extremely vigilant. Believe your own self to be distinct from your body. Offer bhakti to Shree Purushottam attentively and thoroughly. Constantly engage in bhajan and smaran of Bhagvãn; its bliss will equal the bliss of actually having the darshan of Bhagvãn.
3.11 “Also, in our satsang, a person who is educated in the shãstras is not necessarily great. Who should be considered great? Well, a person who considers all fourteen loks to be as insignificant as a blade of grass, due to vairãgya; a persons who has firm belief of Bhagvãn as He is, just as he has firm attachment to his body; and a person who is oblivious to the world in the jãgrat state just as he is oblivious to the world in the state of sushupti sleep – such a person is great in our satsang.”
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