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2 Rajipa no Rajmarg

Samuh GaanAnd

Rajipa no Rajmarg

Authors

Sahitya Lekhan Vibhag, SMVS

Translated By

Canada Satsang Mandal

Publisher

Satsang Sahitya Department

Swaminarayan Dham, Gandhinagar - 382007.

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Samuh Gaan

• Our one and only life goal must be to pleaseour Supreme Lord Swaminarayan and onceone understands Supreme LordSwaminarayan’s sarvopari nishtha, devoteeswho develop good habits of bhajan-bhakti canearn extraordinary rajipo of Supreme LordSwaminarayan, whom also is referred to byfaithful devotees as Maharaj.

• Second sankalp of 2013 was ‘Kariye Bhajan-Bhakti’. The main purpose of this sankalp wasto develop a habit of bhajan-bhakti in alldevotees. During that year Samuh Gaan ruleshad been given to build a strong attachmentwith Maharaj and to please Maharaj.In the current year, 2014, we have been givenSamuh Gaan rules to please Maharaj and tofurther strengthen our habit of bhajan –bhakti.

• So HDH Bapji and HH Swamishri have givenorder to all saints, devotees, children and

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elders to perform Samuh Gaan with fullconcentration so that one can please Maharajand can have strong attachment with Maharaj.If performed with strong attachment, all of thesadhan one does will definitely reach Maharaj.

• How to perform Samuh Gaan ?1. Samuh Gaan is being performed in all SMVS

temples every morning. If possible, one shouldattend it for most attachment to Maharaj.

2. We have been given various kirtans for vari-ous days of the week for Samuh Gaan. Oneshould perform Samuh Gaan of the specifickirtans for that day. For each day, there are 2kirtans. The first kirtan is a ‘Prarthna’. The sec-ond one is in relation to ‘Samjan’ or ‘Vartan’.One person should sing one line of the kirtanand the rest should repeat it. This process con-tinues until both kirtans have been sung.

3. Even if there are only 2 members in the house,they should still perform Samuh Gaan in thesame manner as described above. The reasonfor singing each line two times is so we cansing it properly the first time and for the sec-

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ond time, we can do ‘Manan’ of the line orpray with passion to Maharaj according to thewords of the kirtans.

4. One must not perform Samuh Gaan just forthe sake of doing it and/or should not rush.One should do Samuh Gaan with fullconcentration by putting all other thoughtsand activities aside so it can reach Maharaj.One should do it with the remembrance ofMaharaj’s murti, with real need and hungerby showing full necessity.

• Even while doing the Samuh Gaan of secondkirtan, one should relate it with one’s own life.One should pray to Maharaj with determina-tion to want to change one’s own life as perMaharaj’s wishes in this kirtan. One should doSamuh Gaan like this.

• If one does Samuh Gaan as shown above, thenthe motive of Samuh Gaan can be fulfilled.One can take extraordinary benefits from do-ing Samuh Gaan: one can please Maharaj, onecan save one’s own time, and one’s bhajan-

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bhakti can reach Maharaj.

• If possible, one should make Samuh Gaan

kirtans by heart so one can do Samuh Gaanwith full concentration. One can attach withMaharaj by this kirtans any time. One has tosing them every week so it can be rememberedvery easily and there is no chance to forgetthem. One must have desire to remember thekirtans.

• One can find all these Samuh Gaan kirtans in

the kirtan CDs published by SMVS and are nor-mally sung by saints or devotees in sabhas orfunctions in temples. That’s why these kirtan’stunes are well known. This is the reason why aCD for the Samuh Gaan kirtans for this year,2014, has not been published by the sanstha.

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Pad – 1 : Prarthna

Chho prabhu Shri Ghanshyam jaykari…Sahjanand hari Swaminarayan, Ek j chho avtari;Sarvopari harikrishna prabhu ma, bhakti achal amari… Chho prabhu 01

Dinbandhu tame daya karine, birad aap vichari;

Dehbhav tana sakal dosh thi, lejo nath ugari….

Chho prabhu 02

Dhyan ma navala neh purine, patra banavo bhari;

Murti sukhma rasbas karine, shthiti karavo sari….

Chho prabhu 03

Angoang ne romerom ma, thijado bhayhari;

Dasanudas ni araj sunine, nyal karo avikari….

Chho prabhu

04

Pad – 2 : Kirtan (Monday)

Sadguru sacha re sevo shuddha bhav shu re,

Jethi tale man na vividh vikar re;

Monday

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Jene sange vadhe re, prabhu sang pritdi re,

Tali jay jaat varna ahankar re...Sadguru 01

Vartaman panch re palave dradh kari re,

Sambhlave hari na charitra (param) udar re;

Eva gurudev re govind sam janjo re,

Jene sange pamiye bhavjal par re…Sadguru 02

Guru vina gnan na pame manmukhi re,

Kahe chhe em mahamuni ved puran re;

Evu te vichari re sadguru sevjo re,

Jethi hari pamiye pragat praman re...Sadguru 03

Guruji na vachan re vichari ur dharjo re,

Talo tame moh mamta ahankar re;

Muktanand kahe chhe re evi rite vartata re,

Tene ur vas kare bhagvan re...Sadguru 04

Tuesday


Ho rasiya main to sharan tihari…

Nahi sadhan bal vachan chaturi,

Tuesday

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Ek bharoso charne girdhari... Ho 01

Kadai tumbadiya main to nich bhomi ki,

Gunsagar piya tumhi savari… Ho 02

Main ati din balak tum sharne,

Nath na dijo anath visari… Ho 03

Nijjan jani sambharoge pritam,

Premsakhi nit jaye balihari... Ho 04

Pad – 2 : Kirtan (Tuesday)

Shriji pragat malya, bapa pragat malya, pyara swami;

Jay bolo anand ne pami...

Sarvopari sahuna avtari, Swaminarayan sukhkari;

Koi thi jay nahi kalya, eva Ghanshyam malya…Pyara 01

Pap punya sarve na to balya, karma anek janma na talya;

Khata vali gaya, kari puri daya…Pyara 02

Maro hath jhalyo harivare, abhay kar mukyo mam shire;

Mune eno karyo, ae to mara thaya…Pyara 03

Navi lilao kari sukh didha, premi jano na kod pura kidha;

Janma sufal karya, puran kam karya...Pyara 04

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Vhale kol murti na didha chhe, rasbas kari rakhi lidha chhe;

Kashi rahi nahi khami, hun to mahapad pami…Pyara 05

Nathi desh pardesh te kai, sada bhela murti sukh maahi;

Kyarey viyog nathi, Shriji kahe chhe kathi…Pyara 06

Juo Shriji ni kevi daya chhe, sada pratyaksh pane rahya chhe;

Pragat parcha ape, dukh jan na kape…Pyara 07

Vhala tamne rizavavane kaj, nitya vinve chhe dasanudas;

Sada bhela rahejo, nitya darshan dejo…Pyara 08

Wednesday


Tamari murti vina mara nath re, biju mane aapsho ma;

Hun to ej mangu chhu jodi hath re; biju mane apsho ma.

Apo tamara jan no sang re… Biju

Mara jivma ae j umang re… Biju 01

Mara urma karo nivas re... Biju

Mane rakho rasiya tam pas re… Biju 02

Wednesday


Ae j arji dayanidhi dev re… Biju

Aapo charankamal ni sev re… Biju 03

Karo itar vasna dur re... Biju

Rakho Premanand ne murtima Jarur re… Biju 04

Pad–2 : Kirtan (Wednesday)

Sachu to malyu re deval sachu to malyu;

Shriji tari krupaye deval sachu to malyu…

Koti kalpe ne koti sadhane male nahi;

Vatni vatma hariye api re didhu… Shriji 01

Tejomay ne amrutdham ae deval;

Saday chhe ae to navu ne navu… Shriji 02

Sukh sukh ne sukh murti devalma;

Anubhavio ne to te lage chhe galyu… Shriji 03

Akhand sanatan deval murti chhe shriji keri;

Rome rom ma sukh ema to bharyu… Shriji 04

Anadimukto rahe chhe murti devalma;

Rasbaspane sukh bhoktapanu… Shriji 05


Dasanudas kahe sachu chhe murti deval;

Hans rupi mukta sange hu re rahu… Shriji 06

Thursday


Aapna te aabh ma hun nanu parevdu, aapna ishare udi javu;

Aapna vachan mara jivan no rah chhe, aapni ruchi ma jivi javu,

Aapni ichchhama aaykhu ogalvu,

Aap chaho em mare rahevu;

Das tano das thai aapma homai javu,

Divyajivan aap mathi levu, re, mare aapna…01

Venu banvu chhe mare aapna adhar tani,

Aapnaj sur hun relavu;

Murtima rasbas rakho mara swami,

Mahima vichare dubi javu, re, mare aapna...02

Din balak hun aapno gulam bani,

Thursday


Rajipo aapno kamavu,

Marag pan aap mari manzil pan aap chho,

Mare aap vade aap ma samavu, re, mare aapna...03

Pad – 2 : Kirtan (Thursday)

Mohan ne gamvane ichchho man ni ,

Tyago sarve juthi man ni tek jo;

Pativrata no dharma achal kari paljo,

Hari charne rahejo abla thai chhek jo...Mohan ne 01

Vali ek vat kahu chhu adhik vivek ni,

Sambhal beni tara sukh ne kaj jo;

Harijan sathe rakho puran pritadi,

Tyago sarve juthi man ni tek jo...Mohan ne 02

Sukhdayak tu jane sundar shyam ne,

Ati dukhdayak man potanu janjo;

Muktanand na nath magan thai sevjo,

Samji vichari bolo amrut ven jo...Mohan ne 03

Friday



Mara chhel chhabila shyam, murtima rakhjo re;Jani birad tav Ghanshyam, mujne nibhavjo re… Mara

Hun balak taru ansamju, vichar viveke kai na samju;

Karvane kharo garju, daya darshavjo re… Mara 01

Kamadik shatru chhe baliya, Chhota mota devodariya;

Vikshep karva gariya, tene kadhjo re… Mara 02

Granthi je ahanta mamta ni, maithun ne vali shashtra bhanyani;

Hraday ne shanshay ni, granthi taljo re… Mara 03

Dhyan ma nidra alas aave, sankalpo vali aavi munjzave;

Tum bin kon bachave, vare aavjo re… Mara 04

Deh na bhavo sarve tali, murti ma rakho hitkari;

Patra kari bhayhari, sukhda aapjo re… Mara 05

Dasanudas na vhala shriji, sharnagat ni sunjo arji;

Thaine sahu par raaji, sthiti karavjo re… Mara 06

Friday


Pad – 2 : Kirtan (Friday)

Sambhal beni hari rizya ni ritdi,

Mohanvar ne man sangathe ver jo;

Sadhan sarve man bagade pal vishe,

Jem bhaliyu paysakar ma ahi zer jo…Sambhal 01

Dasi thai tu raheje din dayal ni,

Nichi tel male to mane Maher jo;

Bhav brahmadik ne nishche malti nathi,

Purshottam pase bethani jagya jo...Sambhal 02

Prit kare purshottam sathe nitya navi,

Dazish ma dekhi kenu sanman jo;

Muktanand na nath magan thai sevjo,

To rize rasiyo sundar var shyam jo…Sambhal 03

saturday


Bisar na jajo mere mit, yah var mangu nit…Bisar

Main matimand kachhu nahi janu, nahi kuchh tum se hit;

Saturday


Banhya grahe ki laj he tum ku, tum sang meri jit…

Bisar 01

Tum rizo eso gun nahi, aavgun ki hun bhit;

Aavgun jani bisaroge jivan, hovahu bahut fajit...

Bisar 02

Mere dradh bharoso jiyame, taji ho na mohan prit;

Jan avgun prabhu manat nahi, yehi purav ki rit...

Bisar 03

Dinbandhu ati mrudul subhavu, gavu nishdin geet;

Premsakhi samju nahi undi, ek bharoso chitt…

Bisar 04

Pad – 2 : Aatmabuddhi Geet (Saturday)

Jiv nu jivan mara vhala, Sahjanand swami(2);

Aatmabuddhi karie vhala, divyapurush pami...

Jiv nu jivan 01

Dehrup mani potanu, jive karyo ati sneh(2);

Motapurush sathe priti, potapanu deh geh…

Jiv nu jivan 02


Saday na ae saga sacha, motapurush dayal(2);

Ae mara hun emno, ae dradh kariye aa var…

Jiv nu jivan 03

Janamo janam thi thaya chhiye, deh na sukhe sukhi(2);

Motapurush na sukhe sukhi, thaiye dukhe dukhi…

Jiv nu jivan 04

Kon bole chhe ? kon kahe chhe? karta pote hari(2);

Vachan ma nihsanshay thaiye, nidhadakpanu dai...

Jiv nu jivan 05

Gamtu emnu maru gamtu, ruchi ma sada rahe(2);

Bapji ne Swamishri sathe, aatmabuddhi rahe…

Jiv nu jivan 06

Sunday


He dayalu! daya karine, aapne game evu patra karjo,

He krupalu! krupa karine, aapne game evu patra karjo,

Shilpi aapa j chho mara, divyajivan na denara;

Pratikruti tav karnara…01

Sunday


Tu hi tu ek tu hi tu, nahi koi jivan maru tu;

Jalminvatt maru jivan tu…02

Mahima sabhar thai rachi rahu, oatprot thai murti ma tharu;

Desh-videshe gato faru…03

Tav charan ni raj banu hun, sahu ma tara darsh karu;

Ukakhachar jeva thavu…04

Rank banine yachi rahu, saday tara sange rahu;

Jem aap rakho tem rahu…05

Pad – 2 : Kirtan (Sunday)

Seva kari lyo, seva kari lyo… avsar avyo aaj;

Shriji raji karva kaj… Bapji raji karva kaj…

Santo, bhakto, mandir maru, seva kadi nav talo;

Sevama kadi varo nav joiye, raji thay bahu vhalo.

Shriji raji karva kaj… Bapji raji karva kaj 01

Maan mukine seva karvi, nahi vakhan prashansha;

Koi juve ke nav juve pan, juve hari hamesha.


Kantalo ne aalash kevi, bhar bhido nav lage;


Shraddha ane mahatmya sathe, mangamtu nav rakhe.


Sevanu jo vyasan Kariye to, vasna nirmul thay;

Divyabhave Kariye seva to, Ukakhachar thavay.


Guru Bapji seva ni murti, rahe na seva thi dur;

Santo-bhakto rizavavane, shikhiye seva no gun.


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These are two goals of this year……

Which are Maharaj’s expectations and hopes for us...

Sankalp : 1 – Section : 1

To develop aatmabuddhi with Motapurush

“Develop ‘Tirthbuddhi’ in Motapurush”

What is ‘Tirthbuddhi’?

• The way one understands that pilgrim is divine,

one should understand the same divinity in

Motapurush. That is ‘Tirthbuddhi’.

Why one has to do ‘Tirthbuddhi’ in Motapurush?

• Firstly, one has to understand why there is

divinity in pilgrim places. Divinity exists because

these places have some connection with

Maharaj. But they are inanimate (vijati) divya

whereas Motapurush is animate (sajati) divya.

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Sankalp : 1 - Section : 1


The major reason for why developing tirthbuddhiin Motapurush is essential is becauseMotapurush have reached ultimatetranscendence (purshottamroop) and because ofthis, Motapurush’s doer in its entirety is Maharaj.

• By having divinity in pilgrims one can alwaysremember Maharaj, the only result one can getfrom this is to be relieved from his/her sins.Whereas if one has divinity in Motapurush……

1) Makes one to understand the reality ofMaharaj’s swaroop.

2) Will clear one’s all spiritual debit balances of not

only one birth but infinite births.3) Can clear one’s soul from inner enemies

troubling since ages.4) Can make one eligible for ‘Murtisukh’ by making

one understand his/her own identity?5) Gives divine understanding which will make him

happy in this life and thereafter.


6) Can give divine happiness which one can get afterdeath only.

We can get all these and many other results ifwe do ‘Tirthbuddhi’ that is ‘Divyabhav’ forMotapurush. So we should always do

‘Tirthbuddhi’ in Motapurush.We should have eagerness for darshan

samagam of Motapurush like we have for pil-grims.

• Worldly people donate more in pilgrims thanother places. Because it has relation with god,belief says even if you do small donation in

pilgrim, you will get big results. WhereasMotapurush is the one who is giving that divin-ity to pilgrims. How much we can get by doinghis sewa…!! Shriji Maharaj has explained it in4th Vachnamrut of Jetalpur,

“…Your story is different, because you

observe righteousness rules. Because of this ifany one who feeds saints like you achieves the


merit of many feasts. He will eventually attain

salvation…”• By only feeding, one can be free from sins been

done in last infinite births and can get ultimatesalvation.

• Even the rivers and ponds in which Motapurush

wash feet become pilgrim.• If Motapurush is sitting under the shadow of any

tree and someone eats the fruit of that tree canget ultimate salvation. What a mercy…!!

• Small business gets a huge profit means earn too

much by doing sewa of Motapurush. Incident :• Once Sadguru Brahmanand Swami fell ill while

doing vicharan. He wasn’t able to walk becauseof very high fever. One nomad was coming with

his bullocks. One bullock was really healthy.Sadguru Brahmanand Swami sat on it and

reached next village. For such minor sewa


Maharaj gave birth to that bullock in satsang

and gave it promise of salvation.

• Once Sadguru Muktanand Swami and SadguruBrahmanand Swami were doing vicharan andthey were walking on road. One little boy wascoming towards them. He was eating parchedfresh wheat. Swami asked for wheat. Boy gavehand full of wheat… Only little sewa and swamigave him blessings that “when you will behaving last breaths, we will come withMaharaj and wheat to take you to the Murti….”What a mercy… !!

• Premji Thakkar from Mendarda was having cowand his cow’s milk was going for saint’s sewa.Resulting, when that cow was at last stage of lifeMaharaj gave her darshan and took her to hisMurti.

• We have been gifted by pair of Satpurush, whocan give us huge reward for very little sewa,who can hide in Maharaj’s Murti and can teachpeople the same who comes in his contact, solet’s do ‘Tirthbuddhi’ in such pair of Satpurush…


1 Infinite immovable pilgrims are in the feet of Motapurush…

• All the acts of Motapurush have been done by

Maharaj. He always resides in Murti. He is never

apart from Murti even for a fraction of second.

That’s why it has been said that there are infinite

immovable pi lgrims are in the feet of

Motapurush.

Incident :

• Sadguru Nirgundasji Swami was bathing in

Lakhaiwadi. That water was flowing in the front

art of the well. Laxmirambhai was putting it

(water) on his head. Seeing that Swamishri

asked, “What are you doing?” Laxmirambhai

replied, “Revd. Swami, I am penniless, un-

healthy, poor Brahmin, how can I afford to go

on pilgrimage to Kashi, Dwarika, Gayaji,

Jagannathpuri, Ganga, Godavari, Saraswati,

and Yamuna etc? For me all the pilrimages are

here today.” Having such understanding if one

puts the water in which motas have bathed on


his head, his all five great sins, etc will be burnt

and will get ultimate liberation.

- Bapashri ni Vato : Part – 1, Varta – 114

• Whenever P. P. Bapji is having bath, even ourdear P. Swamishri put that water on head.

• Meghjibhai was son of Muktraj Parvatbhai in

avarbhav. He wanted to go to all the pilgrimsbut Parvatbhai didn’t agree with this, still hewent. Sadguru Gopalanand Swami made himunderstand that infinite pilgrims are in hisfather’s feet. When he went back to his homeand pleaded his father then he saw them in hisfeet.

- Bapashri ni Vato : Part – 1, Varta – 121

• Motapurush is Jangam(movable) pilgrim who

can create infinite immovable pilgrims.

Incident :

• One devote went to Sorath to do panchtithi.Means old temple visit & darshan wich made byLord Swaminarayan. He went to do darshan


in one of the temple of Swaminarayan sect. He metone saint. After he did darshan, that saint asked,“Where are you coming from?” “FromAhmedabad Vasna temple…” Saint said, “Oh…Are you disciple of DevnandanSwami?” “Yes…”“But … you doesn’t look like true disciple or elsewhy do you need to go to do darshan of all thesepilgrims? Infinite pilgrims reside in the feet ofDevnandanSwami. You got the best saint of sect.What is less in him so you had to come to dopanchtithi! ?”

• We have got the anadimukt Satpurush-Motapurush by whom infinite immovable pil-grims got their holiness. We have got pragat andpratyaksh Lord Swaminarayan who can createinfinite anadimukt… Not even that but he madeus purshottamroop. Maharaj not away from usnot even fraction of millimetre. If we understandourselves such blessed then we don’t feel anyweightage of all these avarbhav pilgrims (sect orother sect). Meaning we don’t feel that, we won’tget salvation without them.

• We yet have dehbhav. Until we get sthiti, we


should do atambuddhi with Motapurush to geteligibility. How should we do the atmabudhhi…?The way we have divinity in pilgrims we shouldunderstand even infinite times more inMotapurush.

Let’s put below things into practice to doatmabuddhi with Motapurush…

1. We should feel more happiness while doingdarshan of Maharaj and Motapurush then doingdarshan of pilgrims. We should always haveeagerness of their darshan.

2. We should not have any desire to do darshan ofall these pilgrims, or even we shouldn’t feel anyincompleteness without darshan of pilgrims.

3. Even if we have to take our family for outing weshould always prefer our SMVS temples likeSwaminarayan dham, Vasna, Ghatlodiya,Naroda, Vadodara, Godhar, Mehsana, Rajkotwhere we don’t have to break our rules andregulation or we don’t have to go out of ourupasna or we can get samagam of saints.


4. People spend thousands of rupees and plentyof time to go to pilgrims but they only can getdarshan, can’t get samagam, can’t evenrecognize own guilt’s, can’t even strengthenunderstanding of spiritual knowledge orswaroopnishtha. Rather our mind will be morewondered, becomes more extrovert. If we won’tbe conscious then will do big loss by looking atother’s bad act and taking their abhav-avgun.That’s why it has been said in kirtan,

“Kashi Kedar ne Dwarka dode, Jog ni jugti na jani re;

Fera farine pachho ghar no ghar ma, Godho jodano jem ghanir e . ”

5. During that time Maharaj has establishedparoksh swaroops as per the situation, now bylooking at them, there is a possibility that ouror our family member’s nishtha goes weak ratherthan being strong.

• “In shikshapatri Shriji Maharaj has said, to go

on pilgrimage to Dwarika etc. what is themeaning of Dwarika?” Bapashri replied, “Theone who can open the door of salvation means


liberate us and where such saints live should beassociated with – is known as the pilgrimage ofDwarika.”

- Bapashri ni Vato: Part – 1, Varta – 111

• Where if we can get to stay with motapurush for

5–7 days then he can free us from our inclinationwhich we have since ages. He can make usintrovert and he can make us experienceMurtisukh. That why elderly saints said,

“Uttama sahjavrutti, Madhyama dhyan dharna,Kanishtha shastrapathanam, Tirthatanam adhamadham”

6. That’s why by understanding Maharaj’s swaroopas it is now being a member of karan satsangwe should understand our own swaroop andthen be one with Maharaj. Enjoy the ultimatepleasure of Murti. That is what we have toactually do. So now we should leave our curiosityof knowledge and hobby of outing.


That’s why P. Swamishri says that,

“Who ever want to be one with Murti has toleave the aspiration of going to the pilgrims ofpratyaksh…” then how can we go to pilgrims ofparoksh? !

• By going to paroksh pilgrims we are not being

loyal to Maharaj. Maharaj is not pleased with

this. Maharaj went to Pilgrimage for the welfare

of millions and to give these Pilgrims their

recognition as holy places by purifying them with

his feet. The only swaroop for salvation is

Maharaj whom we already got pragat and

pratyaksh . Thus we have achieved salvation.

• In the arti we sing every day,

“Purshottam pragat nu, je darsan karse;Kal karm thi chhuti, kutumb sahit tarse.”

• So, why go to Pilgrim….? Many people think

that by going to Pilgrim we can become pur...


but we have got such supreme Lord, eternal anddivine of all divines then are we still impure?No. So we should not believe that we can onlypurify ourselves by going to Pilgrims.

• We have already got the Lord pragat and

pratyaksh whose darshan we are going to havein the Pilgrims, all we have to do now is to beone with Murti and get ultimate pleasure ofMurti.

2. Pilgrims burn the sins of millions whi leMotapurush burns the sins of the infinite pil-grims.

• Through the pilgrims is the place where millions

of people burn their sins but the pilgrims have

to go to Motapurush to burn their sins.

Incident :

• When sadguru Harinarayandasji Swami used toabide in Muli one day two cows, black andcoloured came to the compound of the templeand to wallow themselves in the dust. Aftersometime they became white. The devotees


asked swami what happened. Swami told themto ask the cows. Then the cows said that, “Weare Ganga and Yamuna. People come to us towash their sins so we became polluted. That’swhy we have come to this holy land whereMotapurush abide to wash our sins. By rolling inthe dust of their feet the sins that people havepoured in to us got burnt away. So we becomepure. That is why we have turned to white fromblack and colourful cows.”

• Infinite immovable pilgrims go to Motapurush(jangam tirth) to burn their sins.

• So that by getting the blessings of salvation fromthe Motapurush where infinite immovable pil-grims get pure, we should feel ourselves com-plete and that is the main point of satsang.

Let’s practice below in our life to do Tirthbuddhiin Motapurush…

• We should feel completeness and freedomfrom all our sins when we get darshan, sparshor sewa of Motapurush. Because Motapurush


is relieving us from the kal-karma-maya and fromthe fear of pap-yamdut by offering us thevartaman. He is making us anadimukta who isabove aksharkoti and on the top of vyatireksambandh.

• We should always have desire, mercy and com-passion to bring all satsangi and nonsatsangi toMotapurush and relieve them from sins.

• The way we feel clean by having bath, same way

we should feel purity by the touch ofMotapurush and sambandh of Motapurush.

3.Pilgrims are vijati divya by the relation of ShrijiMaharaj where Motapurush is sajati divya bythe relation of Shriji Maharaj.

Incident :

• Once an erudite came to Sadguru VrundavanSwami with the intention of testing swami andasked, “Have you seen Kashi?” Then swami said,“Which Kashi are you talking about ? SmallKashi or Big Kashi ?” The erudite wondered by


the listening to the question. So he asked,“Swami, there is only one Kashi then why are youmentioning two?” Then swami said, “where bodyis been cut by saw and people get worldlyeducation is small Kashi which is like immovablepilgrim. The place where one can come out fromthe cycle of birth and death, one can be relievedfrom the fear of kal-karma-maya, and one canget ultimate salvation is big Kashi. The personwho is sitting in front of you is bigger Kashi.”

Let’s practice below in our life to do Tirthbuddhiin Motapurush…

1. We should understand importance of Maharajand Motapurush more than blessed things whichbecame blessed by the sambandh and is vijatidivya.

2. We shouldn’t feel happy or satisfied by onlygetting blessed things. Even now Maharaj ispragat as pratima swaroop. So we shouldunderstand the same divinity in the people whohave Maharaj’s sambandh.


3. We shouldn’t have any attachment or affectiontowards blessed things.

• One saint loved Maharaj’s charnarvind. He was

at his last breath and had too much attachmentwith it. He had to take birth of caterpillar incharnarvind as result.

4. We should feel more happiness by getting theMaharaj and such Motapurush and how theymade us instead seeing blessed things.


Sankalp : 1 – Section : 2

To do aatmabuddhi with Motapurush“Nihsanshaypanu in Motapurush’s vachan, have

trust and give him fearlessness from our side”

What is the meaning of Nihsanshaypanu in

Motapurush’s vachan ?

• Whatever Motapurush says we shouldn’t have

any inference in it, or we shouldn’t have any

sankalp-vikalp in it. We should accept it by heart

and that is nihsanshaypanu.

Incident :

• In the middle of the day Maharaj told Ratanji, “I

can’t read, get lantern… not this way keep it that

way…” Maharaj told such thing to him many

time still he didn’t have any sankalp that do you

need lantern in the middle of the day?! Can’t

even see this…!? What a state of nihsanshay

position….!!

Sankalp : 1 - Section : 2


• Sadguru Gunatitanand Swami had 2

disciples. Balmukunddasji Swami andKrushnacharandasji Swami. Once swamiordered both of them, “You have to makerotla until 12 o’clock then after until 2o’clock you have to sit on the stonewithout any sitting matt, under the heatof sun and do mala.” Both the saintfollowed this order word to word for 2months. During that time both saintneither even discuss between each-other, “what is our mistake that swamigave us such punishment?” norinvestigated by third person. Becausethey didn’t even have sankalp that ‘whyso?’ they only thought that whatever Gurudoes is always for fair, always for ourwelfare. They accepted it withnihsanshaypanu. .


What is the meaning of trust in Motapurush’svachan?

• We should have the trust that whateverMotapurush is saying is fine, whatever he says ithappens. Even though we can’t see or feel it likehis statements still we should have that trust thatit is exactly like he is saying.

Incident :

• Once Maharaj ordered Dadakhachar to putpumpkin in small pot, which was not possiblestill he started trying to put it in without anysankalp. Pumpkin didn’t go in the pot stillMaharaj said that pumpkin is in the pot. Eventhen he didn’t have any sankalp, “bhale Dayalu!Even though I can see it out of the pot by myeyes but if you are saying then pumpkin is in thepot.” What a trust!!

“Uttamray ne Shriji e kahyu em,Nakho kolu ghada ma akhu em,Lesh dagya nahi avshe ke kem…!?”

• Once Sadguru Gopalanand Swami asked his

disciples to cover books with plastic. But


atmosphere wasn’t like rain. So they didn’t coverthe books. They were walking on the road and itrained. All the books got wet. This is calleddeficiency in trust… doesn’t matter if there is noatmosphere of rain still who is saying?! We trustatmosphere but not the person who is saying?!Either we see or not but it is exactly like whatMotapurush is saying… this is called trust. Weshouldn’t doubt any of Motapurush’s statement.We shouldn’t use our intelligence.

• Nihsanshaypanu and Trust are the two sides ofone coin.

• If we are nihsanshay then we can have trust andif we have trust we can be nihsanshay.

• Once Maharaj asked, Dinanath Bhatt to writesome pages and then tore them, again he didthe same and repeated it for 2 to 4 times. ThenDinanath Bhatt thought is this God or what ?

• Once Maharaj made Shukswami to write wholebook and when it was ready Maharaj put it inthe water and made it wet. Still swami didn’t


have any sankalp… Why ? Because he thought Iwant to make Maharaj happy… I should do inwhich he is getting happy…

• P. Swamishri work hard to incarnate Maharaj’s

sankalps and do planning for months. Then hegoes to P. P. Bapji, even he put 100 suggestionsin front of P. P. Bapji and P. P. Bapji reject themall still he doesn’t ever have sankalp that whynot? Neither single argument nor any tact ortrick. Bhale Dayalu… Immediately he crosses itoff. Whatever he is saying or doing is right… Eventhough we feel it best but still if he says no thencancel…

What result do we get if we havenihsanshaypanu in vachan and trust?

• Maharaj has asked Sadguru Premanand Swamito sing harmony Bhairav in the noon time whenmusicians came from Gwaliyar to test Maharaj’ssaints, still Sadguru didn’t have sankalp thatharmony Bhairav can only been sang in the earlymorning!!! He didn’t even try


to inform Maharaj about it. He started singingHarmony Bhairav without any sanshay, so thatthe atmosphere transformed as per the har-mony. If we have trust and nihsanshaypanu inMotapurush’s vachan then impossible can be-come possible.

• Once Bapashri went to have bath in the riverwith all saints and devotees. And gave blessing,“Whoever had bath in this river today, Maharajhas freed him from all the sins one did until now.Maharaj made this birth as his last birth and kepthim in his Murti.” When the sabha finished andthey all were going back, they saw one cow wasstuck in the mud. It was not able to come out.By looking at this Bapashri said, “If the personwho hasn’t done any sins till now decides thenhe can take that cow out of the mud…” every-one started thinking… we have done sinsknowingly or unknowingly, on smaller or largerscale…at that time Ramkrushnabhaifrom Mandvi came forward to take that cowout of the mud and he did so. ThenBapashri asked, “Haven’t you done any


sin in your life?” He replied, “Bapa! I have doneso many sins in my life but you blessed us a whileago that, whoever had bath in this river today,Maharaj has freed him from all the sins one diduntil now and I haven’t done any new sinthereafter, so all my sins have been burnt.” Thisis called Trust and nihsanshaypanu inMotapurush’s vachan….!!!

• We have been blessed many times in sabhathat… “Maharaj has put our soul in his Murti bymaking it anadimukta…” “Maharaj made usanadimukta.” Still we don’t have trust…! That Iam anadimukta, I am not normal human. All thepleasures and comforts of this body is not mine,all the relations of this body is not mine…I amepicure of Murtisukh. We can’t practice it everysecond… the only reason for this is we don’t havetrust in Motapurush’s vachan. We are havingdeficiency in nihsanshaypanu. If we trust themand believe in his words then our dehbhav canbe removed in fraction of seconds.


What is the reason behind not having trust andnot becoming nihsanshay?

• Reason is only one… we always tried to use ourintelligence in front of Maharaj and Motapurush.We try to measure him with our intelligence whohimself if for over all the intelligence. We haven’taccepted his spiritual greatness from the bottomof our heart, can’t blunt our intelligence andskills in front of Motapurush.

How to blunt our intelligence?

• We should have a proper understanding…

• Even though we have so much intelligence or

skills but Motapurush is far above thanintelligence and skills. That is prohibited area.We shouldn’t let intelligence enter that area.

• We can measure intelligence by kilometres not

with ruler or inches. Milk or liquid can bemeasure by litters not in kilos, where we canmeasure hard stuff in kilos. In a way


Motapurush have spiritual greatness. He ishaving spiritual greatness which can’t bemeasure by worldly intelligence or practicalskills… How can we value them with worldly sitewhere all his acts are divine…! We should alwayssay Bhale Dayalu in front of him…! We shouldalways say him with happiness and with thebottom of the heart that I will do whatever yousay.

• One chintamani (wish- fulfilling gem) = How

many Diamonds?(Can’t measure…)So, One Satpurush = How many sadhanik saints- devotees?

It ’s impossible to measure it. One is thepersonality of spiritual greatness given byMaharaj and the other is worldly higherpersonality…Can’t even compare.

• Satpurush, who is always having divine site,

always in parbhav, whose entire acts are beendone by Maharaj. His all acts always have deep


meaning behind it so we don’t have any right todo any sankalp.

• Even if a student want to get knowledge from a

teacher then he has to put trust on the teacher,where we want brahmavidya aka murtividyafrom experienced Satpurush then we have tohave trust in him.

Neither says below in front of Motapurush…

Nor think about it…

• Why did he do like this? It shouldn’t be like this!!!

• Practically this is impossible!!!

Let’s learn one art…

• Whenever we go to Motapurush, or listen to his

sabha, or even when he gives any order weshould only give one answer – “Bhale Dayalu ! itwould be as you say…” We should blunt ourintelligence and think that it is whatever he issaying and accept it from the bottom of theheart. … Just think who is saying it? I want tofulfil his sankalp, why not? We should pray


Dayalu, be with me and start our full efforts…Surely Maharaj be with us and make us fulfil hissankalp.

• We shouldn’t keep our resolution in front of

Motapurush… Shouldn’t ever think that I can dothis much and can’t do this much; just think…who is saying it ? We should always say BhaleDayalu even if it is order of sewa or related topractice something in life… just… “Bhale Dayalu!It would be as you say…”

• Whoever has trust and nihsanshaypana inMotapurush’s Vachan, Motapurush falsnidhadakpanu towards him.

What does it mean by giving nidhadakpanu toMotapurush?

• Nidhadakpanu means Motapurush can sayanything, anywhere, between any one any wayor anything to us without any hesitation.

Incident :

• Shivlal Sheth was wealthy and happy devotee.Was coming in sabha very regularly. Once he


went to do some business and he wanted to giveprofit money in sewa to the temple. Still as hewas late to come in the sabha, SadguruGunatitanand Swami scold him without anyhesitation… and even Shivlal Sheth confessed hismistake as simply too. That’s why swami was ableto scold him without any hesitation.

• Saints used to scold Damodarbhai fromAhmedabad without his faults. Still he didn’thave any sankalp regarding that. He used to say… Bhale Dayalu! Raji Rahejo. Shriji Maharajhimself told Damodarbhai, “Saints are scoldingyou without your faults, why aren’t you sayinganything? At least say that it’s not your fault.”Damodarbhai Replied, “Dayalu, Maharaj ! Whatare you saying ? Saints don’t scold me withoutmy faults. If I haven’t done anything in this birththen must have done in last birth.

In which situation do we do sankalp inMotapurush? What should we do in such

1. When Motapurush asks us to leave things orhabits we are agreeable to…


• Let’s think...

If I will do as per my mind says I will be happy

for little while and it will be feelings of happiness

but it won’t be real happiness. There is always

pain hiding behind it. Our mind made us take

infinite births. Still if we listen to our brain then

it will do even more…That’s why I want to leave

whatever my mind says and want to do as per

Motapurush says…

• Incident :

• Mulji Sheth from Memka had too much affec-

tion in his village. Maharaj decided to relieve

his devotee from all affections and to make

him affected to Murtisukh only. Therefore

Maharaj ordered him to leave his village in 20

days. Even if it was his native place and he

had well settled business, he only thought that

who is giving this order? By looking at that

Mulji Sheth left his village in 18 days. On the

21st day robbers came to rob his house and


found it empty so they returned.

• There are too many good intentions behind

Maharaj’s one little order. But we do not accept

it because of our limited sight…!!

• Motapurush is our well-wisher… Motapurush

wants to make us happy in aalok and parlok by

making us leave whatever our mind says.

2. Whenever we have been ordered to do more

sewa of Tan or Dhan then our capacity or our

expectation…


Every act of Motapurush is intentional. He

wants to free me from all my sins by showing

me more sewa. His only desire is to purify my

antahkaran. His desire to pure our money or

make us wealthy in aalok by giving us more

sewa of Dhan. Doesn’t matter if don’t find out

his desire, we are only intermediates. He is

the one doing that sewa, We should only say

“Bhale Dayalu !”


3. Whenever Maharaj and Motapurush show

differences of avarbhav or unknowingness,

dependency, when they don’t follow rituals,

when they show discrimination, they show us

like they are leaving their body then…


Whatever divine actions we can see is

avarbhav. It is test for me that I am not shaking

from the certainty of his parbhav. Only think that

he is form of parbhav. We shouldn’t be doubtful

from that. There isn’t any possibility of sourness

in sugar-candy. In a same way there isn’t any

possibility of human form in Motapurush.

• Incident :

• Once one devote took his son to Bapashri to give

him name. First three times Bapashri gave girl’s

names and forth time he gave boy’s name

Jagjivan. Didn’t Bapashri know about boy’s and


girl’s names! How can we measure Maharaj andMota’s divine sight! What can we understand!That boy has to give three more birth of girlsafter this birth, so Bapashri relived him fromthose three births by just giving names of girl

and made his this birth as his last birth. So evenif we understands or not his intentions behindhis acts, still we should decide that whatever hedoes is always benefical to us or for ourwellbeing.

4. Whenever motapurush give us blessings andMaharaj doesn’t make that sankalp true…

• Let’s think…Whatever Maharaj and Motapurush are

doing is always fine. He is not incapable buttesting me… as he tested Dadakhachar. Maharajblessed him twenty one times that his workwill be done. Still work hasn’t been done, thus

he went to court plenty of times. Still he didn’t


even have single sankalp in his mind. That’s why

Maharaj became happy with him.

5. When he makes us follow the rules strictly…

• Let’s think…

As much we have deficiency in following the

order of Maharaj that much Maharaj will be

angry on us… Maharaj can never be angry on

me so he is making me follow the rules. What

mercy!!!

6. When he takes us out of our world…


His world is my world. I will have to live as

per his wish and desire.

Whenever Motapurush doesn’t do as per our

wish or kill desires created by our mind or he

doesn’t do what we like, at that time neither

our face expressions should change nor our

inner system should be affected. Our divinity

should be same towards Motapurush. That is


called the acceptance of his spiritual greatness.

7. Motapurush has blessed us that he has kept us

and all in Murti still we find faults in others, or

see other’s bad habits at that time…


Whatever faults I see in me or others who

are under his blessings, are of body. I have no

concern with body. It is certain that my soul

has been made anadimukta. He is showing me

my faults so that I can be selfless. Faults are

dead snakes who cannot bite still we feel scary.

In a way we should try to remove our faults,

pray for it, we should behave selfless in front

of Motapurush. And we shouldn’t ever doubt

about his blessings. He made us anadimukta

as long as concern of prapti. The only thing

left is sthithi. We should try to achieve that


with our full alertness thus we are anadimukt

that is certain.

8. Sometimes when Motapurush scold us or

shows that he is upset with us, keep us away,

even if when we feel that others are not

behaving as per his wish or orders and still he

shows that he is happier with them, at that

time…


Only one thought that Maharaj is my well-

wisher. So even in his displeasure his extreme

pleasure is there. Even in his anger his extreme

love is there. And when he scolds us there is his

best wishes of drag me closer and closer towards

him. That is his extreme kindness. He is an ocean

of kindness…


Sankalp : 2

Let’s develop a habit of Darshan-Seva-Samagam...Let’s develop a habit of Darshan :

Earnest desire of Shriji Maharaj himself :

• My devotees should go to the temple every dayto do darshan.

Why is it important to do darshan?

1. We can overcome the obligation we havetowards Maharaj :

• Even if we drop a pen and someone gives itback to us, we never fail to say thank you.Then Shriji Maharaj has had immense mercyon us! We can never get human life even if wespend billions of rupees on it, intelligencecannot be bought in the market, similarly thisinvaluable satsang cannot be obtained fromthe market, this invaluable karan satsang can-not be obtained from the market, this divinesatpurush cannot be obtained from the market,it is not possible to understand the supremacy

Sankalp : 2


of Lord Swaminarayan, and it is not possible tobelieve in salvation while still alive. ShrijiMaharaj has given us all of this with his mercy…How can we repay this mercy?

• We have to go our workplace or our business

every day in order to earn our salaries of five-twenty-fifty thousand. Then of course we haveto go for darshan of Shriji Maharaj every day!

• We should go to do darshan every day with

gratefulness in order to repay the mercy Maharajhas done on us.

2. Our entry can be made in Maharaj’s books…and Maharaj will protect us…

• Bhaga Sheth from Botaad had a custom of

doing darshan of Maharaj before he went home.Once Bhaga Sheth came to the temple to dodarshan and saints asked him to read oneVachanamrut before leaving. When BhagaSheth opened the Vachnamrut scripture theVachanamrut that came up was very long. Ittook him 2 hours to finish it after which he


started walking home. He met his servant on theway. Servant said that, “Sheth it’s good that youdidn’t come home early because robbers camehome to kill you. They got tired after waiting for2 hours and left.” See? Since he had a custom ofMaharaj’s darshan and he followed saint’s order,Maharaj protected him!

3. Nourishment by sight :

• One devotee was blind but when there was so

much rush in the temple he was still trying to gocloser to Maharaj to do darshan. Anotherdevotee asked him, “Dayalu you can’t see so youwon’t be able to do Maharaj’s darshan, then whyare you trying to go closer to Maharaj in thisrush?” At that time, the blind devotee replied,“Dayalu, I may not be able to do Maharaj’sdarshan but I will be in Maharaj’s sight…”


• Maharaj and Motapurush are the powerhouse

of divinity. We can get power and be nourishedby their sight.

4. Can build a close relationship :

• When we meet someone every day, we develop

a close relationship with him/her and he/she canhelp us in our time of need.

• We have met Maharaj, the king of all universes.

By building a close relationship with Maharaj,Maharaj will help us in all our worldly needs aswell as to attain our biggest goal in parlok; to

enjoy the pleasures of Murti nu sukh.5. Can relieved of Anxiety, Malady, and Difficulty

and live a worry free life :

• Maharaj and Motapurush have such

extraordinary divinity that if any person comeswith an unrest heart he/she can get extremepeace and rest. This world is -full of happiness

and sorrow so happiness and sorrow willcontinuously be in our life. Anxiety, malady


and difficulty will continuously be present. In allthis trouble, we can feel worry free only by thedarshan of Maharaj and Motapurush.

How earnest should our desire for Darshanbe…?!!

• Ambaa Sheth from Gadhaali had custom of nothaving food or water before doing Maharaj’sdarshan. In times when Maharaj goes forvicharan, Maharaj used to give one Murti toAmbaa Sheth so that he can have food and waterafter doing darshan of the Murti. Once Maharajwent for vicharan without giving a Murti toAmbaa Sheth. Ambaa Sheth went to Gadhadabut Maharaj wasn’t there! He went toSaarangpur in search of Maharaj but by thenMaharaj had left Saarangpur and reached Loya.When Ambaa Sheth reached Loya Maharaj hadleft Loya and was on his way to Vadtaal. He wentto Vadtaal in his hungry and thirsty state andupon Maharaj’s darshan tears of happiness fellfrom his eyes. Ambaa Sheth was thirsty ofMaharaj’s darshan for four days yet


nothing came between him and Maharaj, not evenhis hunger, thirst or tiredness. What a desire fordarshan…!

How should we do Aadarsh Darshan ?• Shriji Maharaj himself shows us the method of

doing Aadarsh Darshan in Saarangpur’s secondVachanamrut:

“When one does darshan of God, he shouldunite his mind and vision to concentrate onGod. At that time if he sees a man or a dogwander in or if any other beast or bird appearsand if he breaks his sight from darshan and lethis eyes wander all around, then God and Mota-sants become displeased at seeing such aruptured vision.…”

Let’s put the following into practice in order todo darshan in an Aadarsh manner.

1. We must go to the temple to do darshan at leastonce a day.

2. When we go to do darshan we should turn offour cell phone in the temple’s premises.


3. We should do darshan with full concentrationand shouldn’t look around while doing darshan.

4. When we do darshan we should attach ourinclinations (vrutti) with Maharaj. ( Do prayers,sing kirtans of Murti.)

5. After doing darshan we should meditate on thatmurti in a pratilom way.(Repeat this for 2-3times.)

6. If possible we should do darshan of at least oneaarti; Mangla, Shangar or Sandhya. BecauseMaharaj is very happy when aarti is beingperformed. Amongst all, it’s best to do darshanof Mangla aarti.

7. When we do darshan we should understand thatMaharaj is present before us and full of divinelight.

8. If our house is far away from the temple thenwe should go to the temple at least once a weekto do darshan and also do darshan in the ghar-mandir every day.


9. Whoever lives in Ahmedabad or nearby shouldalways go to do darshan at the Vasna temple onthe day of poonam.

10. For devotees living overseas, if it is not possibleto go to a temple to do darshan, they should dodarshan on-line on our website.

11. We should have a custom of doing darshanduring Dhanurmaas.

Let’s develop a habit of seva…Dhan ni seva and Tan ni seva…• We can do seva in three ways : (1) With our

body (Tan), (2) With our mind (Man), (3) Withour wealth (Dhan)

It’s easy to do seva with our wealth. Seva withour body is a bit more difficult. And the mostdifficult is the seva with our mind.

• Seva with our wealth (Dhan ni seva) : Maharajhas given us our wealth. Dhan ni seva is to use itfor Maharaj, saints and devotees by obeying oursaint’s wishes and orders.

• Seva with our body (Tan ni seva) : Tan ni seva is


to use the body that Maharaj has given us anddo seva by obeying saint’s wishes and orders tomake Maharaj and Motapurush raji.

• Seva with our mind (Man ni seva) : Man ni sevais to do Tan ni seva and Dhan ni seva by givingup our desires and wishes and happily comply-ing with Maharaj’s, Motapurush’s and saint’swishes.

1. Dhan ni Seva :

Why should we do Dhan ni seva ?• Dhan ni seva is not because Maharaj or saints

don’t have any money.• Maharaj has given us our wealth and he is giving

us opportunity to do donation with it. We shoulddo seva with the glorification; It’s Maharaj’sextreme mercy on us. The wealth we have isnot ours. Everything belongs to Maharaj.

• We should give 10% of our income to Maharajto purify the wealth we earn.

• Incident :• When Maharaj was registering everyone’s seva


for the construction of Gadhpur mandir, adevotee named Dubli Bhatt approachedMaharaj. Dubli Bhatt wore torn clothes, didn’thave shoes to wear, and his turban had lots ofpatches. He was poor in wealth but was rich withMaharaj’s greatness. He took off his turban anduntied 13 knots one by one, taking out one paisafrom each knot.. The 13 paisa was his life savingsyet he donated it. Maharaj asked him to buyshoes rather than giving it for donation but hegave it for donation. He made Maharaj happyand Maharaj announced his name in sabha.Maharaj didn’t announce the names of thedevotees who were doing seva of 200–500Rupees. Why? Because wealthy devotees keptmuch of their wealth and donated a portion ofit whereas Dubali Bhatt donated all that he had.Maharaj doesn’t have hunger of our money butour affection!

• Maharaj once told Saamat Patel to do as muchseva as he could. So he sold his house, farms,fields, bullocks, and buffaloes and whatevermoney he got in return he donated it for seva.


He thought that Maharaj has told me to do asmuch seva as I can! Whatever I do is always less…There is no way I can get this seva..!! He did sevawith all these feelings and Maharaj becameextremely happy.

• There is no way I can get this seva! We havegotten such divine and supreme Maharaj andMotapurush that whatever we do for them inreturn is never enough. We can do everythingfor them. If we are full with such greatness ofthem then we can be worthy of their internalblessings.

Why should we give Dharmado?

• This order has been given by Shriji Maharaj him-self :

• We should donate 10% of our legal business, jobor farming income to purify our money. If weare not earning enough then we can donate 5%.

– Shikshapatri• The kind of money that comes in our house the

atmosphere becomes of that kind.


• Daivi Dravya : The money we earn with morality,hard work and without breaking the rules set byMaharaj is called Daivi Dravya.

• Money we earn in the way mentioned above hasMaharaj’s blessings. Thus it brings peace,happiness and good traditions in the family.

• Aasuri Dravya : The money we earn withimmorality, dishonesty, which has been takenaway forcibly, has been taken away by hurtingsomeone, rightfully belonged to someone elseor was earned by breaking the rules set byMaharaj is called Asuri Dravya. The money whichhas been earned this way either goes in hospitalexpenses or in court expenses. This kind ofmoney goes out exactly the same way as it camein the house. It brings pain and sorrow in ourfamily.

• If immoral money comes in our house, it ruinsour family circumstances.

• We shouldn’t earn immoral money but in thisday and age we don’t know which kind of moneywe are bringing into our home so we can purifyit by giving dharmado.


• It’s fine if we do other seva more or less but weshould give the whole 10% of dharmado.

• The money from the dharmado should not beused to feed saints or give them dhotiya. Themoney should also not be spent on pilgrimageor for any other seva.

– Bapashri ni vato: Part - 1, Varta - 53• Wealthy devotees should donate money for

the big festivals and functions of theSwaminarayan sect, build temples, as well asfeed the saints and other devotees.

– Shikshapatri Let’s put the following into practice to be a part

of Maharaj’s sankalp of dhan ni seva…1. Donate complete dharmado as per our income.2. All the wealth given by Maharaj belongs to him.

So if Maharaj has made us wealthy then weshould donate for temple construction,functions or festivals, and do dhan ni seva as persaint’s orders and wishes.

3. After doing dhan ni seva we shouldn’t have anego that I did the seva. We shouldn’t expect anygift, praise or fame in return.


4. We should always feel that, “It belongs toMaharaj, it is for Maharaj and Maharaj is takingit…”

5. If Motapurush gives us a sankalp of how muchdhan ni seva we should do we shouldn’t doubtit or say no. It’s his sankalp and he will fulfill it.We should have that strength. We shouldn’t haveweak thoughts or have any sankalp-vikalpregarding it.

• Whoever doesn’t ignore Maharaj andMotapurush’s vachan down, Maharaj andMotapurush doesn’t let him down.

– P. Swamishri• Even a cheque given by a banker doesn’t bounce

back then how can Motapurush’s blessings goin vain!!!

2. Tan ni Seva :• Maharaj becomes happier on the person who

does Tan ni seva then one who does Dhan niseva.

Why should we do Tan ni seva?1. To purify the impure antahkaran, to be free of

our mistakes and sins :• Shriji Maharaj himself said in the 25th

Vachnamrut of Gadhada Madhya, “Just like


Uka Khachar has the addiction of doing seva ofthe saints, if one develops an addiction of doingseva of God and his saints and cannot live amoment without it will be purified of the filthydesires he has in his antahkaran.”

• Shriji Maharaj told in the 8th Vachnamrut ofGadhada Pratham, “Indriyo ni je kriya chhe tenejo bhagwan ne tena bhakt ni sewa ne vishe rakheto antahkaran shuddh thay chhe ne anantkal naje pap jiv ne valagya chhe teno nash thai jaychhe.” “If one keeps the indriyo entangled inGod’s and his devotee’s seva then his antahkaranis purified and the sins which are attached tothe antahkaran are destroyed.”

2. This seva is easy for those who can’t do Dhanni seva :

• Tan ni seva is the biggest opportunity to makeMaharaj raji for the people who cannot do dhanni seva.

3. Can become selfless :• We might develop ego while doing other seva

whereas inferior seva like tan ni seva will alwaysmake us selfless.


• Once Jeeva Khachar gave donation for rasoi. He

would walk around amongst the rows of peoplesitting for the meal and tell them, “Eatproperly…” He would even order the people whowere serving that, “Serve here… serve thisperson… come on pick up the dishes…” But hewouldn’t do any seva himself. So Maharaj toldhim, “Jeeva Khachar, you are ordering people butI am more raji on the people who are bendingdown to pick up the dishes than the one whogave donation for rasoi. I am happier on thepeople who do inferior seva like tan ni seva thanone who does dhan ni seva.

4. Can do donation of our time :

• We can give only dharmado of money by doing

dhan ni seva whereas we can give dharmado ofthe time Maharaj has given us by doing tan niseva.

5. Can get internal rajipo :

• We can get internal rajipo if we do tan ni seva

with divinity and without any expectation of


gaining something in return, only with theintention to make Maharaj raji.

• P. Swamishri always expresses his internal rajipo

that, “Whenever I see a broom or a mop inanyone’s hand it makes me really happy and Ifeel like hugging him and blessing him from thebottom of my heart.”

• On the instruction of Maharaj, Uka Khachar

became addicted to seva…. He bared the harshsentences said by a new comer named Gajubha.Since he did seva with divyabhaav, Maharajbecame very pleased on him, gave him blessingsand made him nirvaasnik (desire free)….

How Maharaj and Motapurush did seva :

• When Shriji Maharaj was in Loj Aashram asNilkanthvarni, he himself collected woodensticks and cow poo for fuel, washed utensils, andcooked foods….. Maharaj did these sevas toteach us.

• When the temple of Gadhada was being con-


structed, Shriji Maharaj himself used to carrystone from the Ghela River on his golden Paaghand put it in the base of the temple.

• Despite being the Guru of 400 saints at theJunagadh temple, Reverend GunatitanandSwami used to sweep the entire premises of thetemple.

• P.P. Bapji is a Guru of thousands of saints anddevotees but before his bypass surgery, onpoonam samaiyo days he would go to thekitchen early and start cutting vegetables, hewould will pick up grit on construction sites andwould do storeroom seva as well.

• Our beloved P. Swamishri cleans the bathroomof his aasan (room in which he lives) himself.

Let’s learn this to earn internal blessings bydoing seva…..

• When karan satsang is spreading to all thecorners of the world and when we have gottenthe opportunity to de seva as its base then weshould perform our seva with dedication and


fulfill our duty.• Maharaj, Motapurush, saints-devotees, and this

organization are mine. I am the trustee of it. –

Lets do seva with this in mind.• How can I be eligible for this seva ? — With this

in mind, do any inferior seva with daasbhav andmahima.

• I must scarify my own wish, I just want to makeMaharaj raji – with this thought in mind we

should do seva without expectation of praise orrespect.

• Perform seva with enthusiasm, and withoutboredom and arguments.

• While doing seva we should not talk about fellowdevotees in a bad way. Moreover, if we do sevawith divyadrashti, we get internal blessings from

Maharaj and Motapurush. Let’s put the following into practice to be a part

of Maharaj’s sankalp of Tan ni seva…1. Do any tan ni seva at least once a day.


2. Prefer doing an inferior seva.3. On special occasions like utsav sabha or samaiyo

we must do seva such as cleaning utensils,cleaning and tidying or any other seva which wecan do physically.

4. At weekly sabha, does cleaning seva like doingvacuum, sweeping, cleaning furniture etc?

5. We sould divide the cleaning seva of our templeamongst devotees in order to keep our entiretemple neat and clean.

6. We should be eager to do tan ni seva ourselvesrather than assigning to others.

7. We should allocate at least 20 to 30 minutes in aday for physical seva in the temple.

8. Never do arguments in seva and do seva withenthusiasm.

9. While doing seva never be stubborn or selfish.10. Do seva with mahima.11. Distributing invitation cards or performing

sanchalak duty in satsang sabha counts as


physical and mental seva so one should do thesesevas.

Let’s Cultivate the habit of Samaagam :• 24th Vachnamrut of Gadhada Chhella : “What

are the means of achieving great virtues for asalvation seeker? The greater the desire one hasin listening to godly discourses, he has that muchapathy towards this world and vices like lust,anger, and greed are destroyed. If one is lethargictowards godly discourses then we Should believethat he will not attain great virtues. There arenine types of devotion described in the scripturesbut devotion of listening is the best of all.Therefore, if one develops the devotion oflistening then he will attain all the otherdevotions. “

• 12th Vachnamrut of Karyaani : “However lusty,angry, greedy or loose a soul may be, if helistens to the divine discourses with faith andaffection then all his vices will be destroyed.At first, a man might have enough strength tochew raw chick peas, but when he eats a lot ofraw mangoes, he is not even able to chew


cooked rice. Similarly, however much he isengrossed in lust etc., if he listens to these divinediscourses faithfully and enthusiastically, he willnot be able to enjoy the happiness of worldlyobjects. He may dry up his body by hard penancebut his mind does not become non-vicious likethat of a person who listens to these discourses.The minds of all of you would not becomethoughtless by meditation or turning the rosaryas they must have by listening to these dis-courses right now. There is no other remedy ofpacifying the mind or making it non-vicious thanhearing the discourses of the Supreme Lord withfaith and affection.”

• 29th Vachnamrut of Gadhada madhya : “Thecharacteristic of a devotee whose mind is at-tracted towards God is like this: He might bevery tired of walking and not able to stand anysecond longer. At that moment if he hears thedivine discourses of God, he feels as if he hasnot even walked a kilometer and becomesready to eagerly do or listen to the divine dis-courses. In another case, he might be suffer-


ing from a disease or is insulted by someone. Inthe meantime if he hears the divine discoursesof God he feels relieved of all pains and suffering.Lastly, he may seem to have been entangled inthe wealth and riches that he has obtained. Butwhen he listens to the divine discourses he feelsas if he had not come into contact of it at all. Hebecomes that much attentive to listen to thedivine discourses. Thus, it can be said that onehas attraction towards God if he has the qualitiesdescribed above.

Why should we do samaagam?1. To stay strong in satsang :• If a plant gets water daily, it stays green. Similarly,

if our soul gets water in form of samaagam, wecan stay strong in satsang.

2. To stay firm in happiness or sorrow :• Satsang implants understanding so that we can

stay firm in life in happiness or sorrow. With suchunderstanding we do not become over-joyousin happiness or dejected or despondent insorrow.


3. To strengthen our understanding :

• Our understanding of the true form or characterof Maharaj, Motapurush, saints-devotees andwe strengthens only by samaagam. This way wecan stay happier in satsang.

4. To keep doing our seva and to learn the methodof rajipo :

• By samaagam, our focus stays on rajipo whiledoing seva so that we can do our seva withoutany hurdles.

5. To be rid of our mistakes :• Samaagam is like a mirror. We can see our

mistakes by samaagam which we cannot see onour own. We can also learn how to remove themby samaagam. That’s why samaagam is a must.

Maharaj’s earnest desire for samaagam:• If we take a look at the Vachnamrut we can see

that Shriji Maharaj has given laabh to his saintsand devotees sometimes at midnight, some-times early in the morning, sometimes whilehaving lunch or dinner and sometimes even


awakening them while they are asleep to givelaabh.

Motapurush’s earnest desire of samaagam:

• Once a devotee put a bag filled with 500 rupeecoins in the temple and left. ReverendGunatitanand Swami immediately said thatrather than doing 500 rupees donation, if he hadpurchased food from that money and donesamaagam by staying in the temple, then hisfilthy desires would have been removed.

Earnest desire of samaagam held by renounceddevotees who earned rajipo :

• Once there was a samaiyo in Gadhada. MachaKhachar had crop ready in his field. When heasked his nephew to look after his crop, hisnephew refused and said that he wants to cometo Gadhada as well. Now even if he starts toharvest his crop right away he wouldn’t beable to finish by the time the samaiyo startedso he asked the shepherds of his village tograze their cattle in his field. He ruined hiscrop which he cultivated with such labor anddifficulties just for samaagam. What an ear-


nest desire for samaagam…..!!!

• Reverend Gunatitanand Swami used to say,

“If you have to leave the profit of millions thendo so but don’t leave a small chance of

samaagam.”

• There are many who listen to holy teachings,

very few who reflect on it and rarely someoneputs them into practice. Those rare peoplebecome eligible to inherit the divinity fromMotapurush.

• To listen to religious teachings is important but

to do that in an ideal and perfect manner is evenmore important.

How to listen to katha in an ideal manner?1. Maharaj is talking : Anyone can be giving the

discourses of God but we should imagine thatMaharaj himself is speaking. We shouldn’t thinkthat some human is speaking.

2. It’s only for me : Whatever is being delivered, Ineed it and that’s why Maharaj is delivering.

3. I don’t know anything : We should always


listen without thinking ‘I know this.’ Leave suchthoughts, be egoless and listen.

4. Listen with focus and concentration : Do nottalk in sabha or look around uselessly. Listen withfocus and concentration.

5. Write down the moral of the teachings whilelistening.

6. After listening, ponder on what you have listenedto and written down.

How to reflect on what we have listened ?• After listening to any sabha, think about the

intention of Maharaj and Motapurush or theessence of the teachings. First ask youself thefollowing question : What is Maharaj andMotapurush’s intention for me in their teach-ing? Then ask the second question : In thatregard, what’s in my life ? What am I doing ?Then ask the third question: What do I have todo now ? The answer to these questions be-comes a reflection on what we have listened.Practicing to answer the above questions in-cluding ‘What do I have to do now ?’ make thewishes of Maharaj and Motapurush a part of


our life. Putting essence of the teachings into

practice is the best outcome of any teaching. Let’s put the following into practice in order to

be a part of Maharaj’s sankalp of Samaagam:

1. Always attend morning sabha, wheneverpossible.

2. Must attend weekly sabha.3. Must attend poonam or monthly samaiyo sabha.4. We must attend the sabha of P. P. Bapji and P.

Swamishri whenever they come to our center.5. At the time of sabha do not do any seva. Adjust

the seva timings accordingly.6. Must sit in sabha with a pen and something to

write on.7. Listen to sabha with full concentration, write the

essence of the teachings and then reflect onthem.

8. Listen to the CDs/DVDs of Katha (while travellingin car, cooking in kitchen or doing any seva….)

9. Making a habit of putting into practice whateverwe have reflected upon after listening.


• Wherever we are lacking or have laziness in termsof Darshan, Seva and Samaagam, we shouldremove it and live in rajipo then only we can saywe have become a part of Maharaj andMotapurush’s sankalp of leading us towardsMurti sukh….

• A true follower is one who never lets a singlecommand coming from Maharaj andMotapurush fall to the ground.

• Let’s take Maharaj and Motapurush’s sankalpsin our hands, make them ours, put them intopractice and give them a sign of relief…. Becausetheir sign of relief will only occur with our thirstfor Murtisukh…

• At the end, we pray to Maharaj and

Motapurush that do mercy that yoursankalps become our life and shower yourblessings so that we can experience Murtisukh as early as possible.

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