Month: July 2018

Saints and Their Service – 4

||ShriHari|| Saints and Their Service continued…….. There are two different kinds of service –   1) prayer, worship etc. 2) give clothes, food,  making available those things that are essential for sustenance of this body.    Both these services are acceptable to God, but saints do not want the first type of service, and if someone is […]

Saints and Their Service – 3

How is one to recognize a saint?   The simple straight forward answer to recognizing a saint is that our spiritual practice intensifies in his association;  we develop divine qualities and we develop objectivity and impartiality in our conduct. When we gain knowledge of the essential nature of Divinity, our faith increases in Truth-Scriptures,  God, Great […]

Saints and Their Service -2

Wanting worldly things,  son, wife, wealth, honor, high position, etc.  from a saint, is like crushing a priceless diamond with a stone.   This is not the proper use of a saint’s association. By asking a saint one can also get a son etc.  but is is not recognizing their true worth. Now the question arises […]

Saints and Their Service

One beholds God only by devotion and love, and this is out of God’s grace and satsang –   Bhakti taat anupam sukh moola   Milayi ho hoyhin sant anukoolaa Bhagati swatantra sakal guna khaani Binu satsang na paavahi praani   Therefore for us, only the saint is greater.   According to man’s deeds and spiritual […]

Offering to the Lord – ‘Arpan’

Question –  What is the gist of “arpan”  (making an offering) ? Answer –  To give up ‘apnaapan’  (affinity, sense of mine-ness)  || 1 || Question –   After offering everything to the Lord,  can forbidden actions take place, due to the influence of past tendencies?   Answer –  No it cannot take place.   || 2 […]

For Spiritual Aspirants – Discourse 13 – Part 4

||ShriHari|| continued…… ‘How can everybody be like this?’ Everybody can be like this, because every human being is entitled to attain God. Whatever caste he belongs to, whatever hermitage, whatever sect, whatever country, whatever state he belongs to, he is still entitled for attaining God. Whereas one does not fully own this world, neither one […]