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An aspiring devotee's question: What does it feel like to interact with God face-to-face? Shri Maharaj Ji's answer - Interacting with God face-to-face is not a matter of mere feelings or perceiving some reflection. Nor is it the same as having divine sentiments or having an
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In this world, everyone has practical experience of this: jāte kachu nija svāratha hoī, tāpara mamatā karai saba koī. In other words, wherever we perceive our self-interest, the mind naturally develops love for that object. The stronger our sense of self-interest, the deeper that love. Hence, the question is -
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You have only one mind. It alone is the doer of every action. It continuously creates desires day and night, because the soul seeks real happiness -that is, the bliss of God. There are a total of five desires: the desire to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch. Therefore, the
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When you were born, you were completely innocent and guileless. You did not know how to doubt, nor did you think of questioning anything. You believed everything, just as Valmiki believed the words of his Guru: "Keep chanting 'mara mara' until I return." He simply accepted
Today is the last day of this year. Tomorrow there will be celebrations throughout the world. But it is wrong to celebrate. This is not a matter for celebration. The advent of the New Year is not a cause for celebration. It is a cause of worry. Suppose you have
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Remembrance of the Last moment determines the Afterlife - yaṃ yaṃ vāpi smaranbhāvaṃ tyajatyante kalevaram। taṃ tamevaiti kaunteya sadā tadbhāvabhāvitaḥ You will attain the one to whom your mind is attached at the time of death. Hence, God told Arjun - 'tasmāt sarveṣu kāleṣu māmanusmara yuddhya ca' Always
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Every person in this world is unhappy, incomplete, and hungry for bliss. When an aspiring devotee becomes weary of the world and finds nothing fulfilling, they turn to God and say: "My Guru has taught me not to ask God for worldly enjoyment (bhukti) nor liberation (mukti)." Maya&
The most important thing is that you develop faith - firmly believe and trust completely. binu paratīti hoi nahiṁ prītī - For love, first and foremost, faith is essential. binu viśvāsa bhakti nahiṁ, tehi binu dravahiṁ na rāma। Another name for this is shraddhā - guru vedānta vākyēṣu dṛḍho viśvāsaḥ
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There are two types of actions - good and bad, virtuous and sinful, auspicious and inauspicious, material and divine. Good actions are those related to God, while bad actions are those related to Maya. The same distinction applies to the definitions of virtue and sin, though few truly understand this.
उपासना, भक्ति या साधना - इन सब शब्दों का अर्थ है, मन को भगवान् में लगाना - मन को। बंधन और मोक्ष का कारण मन है। मन ही उपासक है। चाहे अच्छा कर्म हो, बु
Worship, devotion, or sādhanā - all these words mean one thing: to attach the mind to God - the mind. The mind is the cause of both bondage and liberation. The mind alone is the worshipper. Whether the action is good, bad, or related to God, the mind is the
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Question: You said that one may either practice devotion to both God and the Guru, considering them as one, or even practice devotion to the Guru alone and still attain the goal. However, if one practices devotion only to the Guru, meditating on the Guru’s form may be difficult.