Paratharo Introduction 1. The Birth of Shri Hari 2. Shri Hari’s Childhood Leela and Van Vicharan 3. Shri Hari’s Divine Exploits, Deeds, and Majesty 4. Auspicious Marks 5. Daily Routine

1. Continuously Engaging One’s Mind on God 2. Three Levels of Vairagya 3. Remembering the Divine Actions and Incidents of God 4. Jealousy like that of Naradji 5. Persistence in Meditation 6. One with Wisdom and One without Wisdom 7. Anvay-Vyatirek 8. Engaging the Indriyas in the Service of God and His Sant 9. Desiring Nothing Except God 10. The Ungrateful Sevakram 11. Vasana; An Ekantik Bhakta 12. The Attributes of the Elements; Creation 13. Planting the Branch of a Banyan or Pipal Tree Elsewhere 14. “Ante Ya Matihi Sa Gatihi” 15. Not Becoming Discouraged in Meditation 16. Wisdom 17. Negative Influence in Satsang; Not Uttering Discouraging Words 18. Denouncing the Vishays; A Haveli 19. The Interdependency of Atma-realization and Other Virtues 20. An Ignorant Person; Seeing One’s Own Self 21. One Possessing Ekantik Dharma; The Two Forms of Akshar 22. Singing without Remembering God Is as Good as Not Singing at All; The Digit ‘1’ 23. Emptying a Pot of Water; Remaining in an Elevated Spiritual State 24. The Elevated Spiritual State of Gnan; ‘Sourness’ in the Form of the Understanding of God’s Greatness 25. The Flow of Twenty Pails of Water 26. A Genuine Amorous Devotee; The Nirgun State 27. The Understanding by which God Eternally Resides within One 28. A Smouldering Log; Progressing and Regressing 29. Intensifying the Force of Dharma, Gnan, Vairagya and Bhakti; Prarabdha, Grace and Personal Endeavor 30. Thoughts that Leave a Lasting Impression 31. Greatness Is Due To Faith 32. A Nest and a Stake 33. Blind Faith, Love and Understanding 34. Setting the World in Motion 35. Safeguarding One’s Liberation 36. A True Renunciant, Based on the Example of a Pauper 37. Attachment to One’s Native Place; Eleven Honors 38. A Merchant’s Balance Sheet 39. Those Possessing the Nirvikalp or Savikalp State 40. Savikalp and Nirvikalp Samadhi 41. “Eko’ham Bahu Syam” 42. The Observance of the Moral Do’s and Don’ts 43. The Four Types of Liberation 44. A Red-hot Branding Iron; A Dagli 45. Does God Possess a Form or Is He Formless? 46. The Creation and Destruction of Akash 47. The Characteristics of Those Who Have the Four Types of Firmness 48. The Four Types of Kusangis 49. ‘Antardrashti’ 50. One Possessing a Sharp Intellect 51. Only a Diamond Can Cut a Diamond 52. Realizing God through the Four Scriptures 53. Progress and Regress 54. Upholding Bhagwat Dharma; The Gateway to Liberation 55. Resoluteness in Worship, Remembrance and Observance of Religious Vows 56. Hollow Stones 57. The Most Extraordinary Means to Attain Liberation 58. The Body, Bad Company and Past Sanskars; One Becomes like One Perceives the Great 59. Unparalleled Love 60. Observing Ekantik Dharma; Eradicating Worldly Desires 61. King Bali 62. Acquiring the Virtues of Satya, Shauch, Etc. 63. Faith; Realizing God Perfectly 64. The Relationship between Sharir and Shariri; A Master-Servant Relationship 65. ‘Gnan-shakti’, ‘Kriya-shakti’ and ‘Ichchha-shakti’ 66. Misinterpreting the Words of the Scriptures; The Four Emanations of God 67. Acquiring the Virtues of the Satpurush 68. God Forever Resides in the Eight Types of Murtis and in the Sant 69. The Dharma of a Wicked Person and a Sadhu 70. Kakabhai’s Question; A Thief Injured by a Thorn 71. God Manifests with His Akshardham 72. Faith Coupled with the Knowledge of God’s Greatness 73. Conquering Lust; Becoming Free of Worldly Desires 74. Understanding Is Measured in Times of Hardship 75. Redeeming Seventy-One Generations 76. An Angry Person, a Jealous Person, a Deceitful Person and an Egotistical Person 77. Not Invalidating Dharma under the Pretext of Gnan 78. The Predominance of Place, Time, Etc.

1. Conquering the Mind 2. Developing Affection for the Form of God 3. ‘Shravan’, ‘Manan’, ‘Nididhyas’ and ‘Sakshatkar’ 4. Wisdom in Discerning between Atma and Non-Atma 5. Anvay-Vyatirek 6. Two States within Each State; The Four Types of Speech 7. Naimisharanya Kshetra 8. The Characteristics of Jealousy 9. The Prevalence of the Dharma of the Yugs; ‘Sthan’ 10. A Physical Perspective versus the Atma’s Perspective; Being Beaten by Shoes 11. Personal Endeavor 12. Thinking about the Atma 13. Losing Faith and Not Losing Faith 14. Laziness and Infatuation 15. Obstinate, Mediocre and Mature Gopis 16. Narnarayan’s Austerities 17. Differences among Muktas; The Branch of a Tamarind Tree 18. Saline Land

1. A Worm and a Bee 2. A Cursed Intellect 3. Shuk Muni Is a Great Sadhu; A Person Cannot Be Known by His Superficial Nature 4. Awareness of the Jiva and the Witness 5. God’s Purpose for Assuming an Avatar 6. One Who Possesses Matsar 7. Vairagya Due to Obsession; Ultimate Liberation 8. The Sagun and Nirgun Forms of God 9. Obstinacy like a Buffalo 10. Checking the Pulse; Austerities 11. The Characteristic of Affection 12. Destroying the Karan Body; A Tamarind Seed

1. Anger; Developing Complete Satsang 2. One with Faith, Gnan, Courage or Affection 3. One with Faith in God Coupled with the Knowledge of His Greatness 4. If One Doubts God, One Cannot Be Said to Have Overcome Maya 5. Controlling the Indriyas and the Antahkaran 6. Purifying the Company One Keeps 7. Realizing God through the Indriyas, the Antahkaran and Experience 8. Eradicating the Over-Excitability of the Indriyas; Accepting Only Words Related to One’s Inclination 9. Factors which Lead to the Development of Dharma, Gnan, Vairagya and Bhakti 10. Remaining Uninfatuated 11. Beliefs of a Holy and Unholy Person 12. The Six Levels of Faith; Savikalp and Nirvikalp Faith 13. Not Being Overcome by Adverse Circumstances 14. Personal Preferences 15. Explaining Atmadarshan Using the Analogies of a Doll and a Cow 16. Worldly Desires Becoming Blunt and Uprooted 17. Reverence and Condemnation 18. Conviction of God

1. One Who Is Intelligent; Applying a Thought Process 2. Sankhya and Yoga 3. Muni Bawa; That Which Is Instrumental in Attaining Liberation Is Known as Intelligence 4. Perceiving Divinity in the Human Traits of God 5. Where Is Conceit Appropriate, and Where Is Humility Appropriate? 6. Those with Firm Upasana Attain Liberation 7. The ‘Maya’ of a Magician

1. The Cause of Infatuation 2. A Small Streamlet of Water 3. The Path of Amorousness and the Knowledge of the Atma 4. Constant Contemplation Is Achieved through Realizing the Greatness of God and Shraddha: A Torn Waistcloth and a Gourd 5. Fidelity and Courage 6. A Draft; The Nature of the Chitt 7. A Poor Man 8. Ekadashi; ‘Gnan-Yagna’; ‘Antardrashti’ 9. Conviction of God; Realizing God to be like Other Avatars Is Blasphemy 10. Safeguarding the Fetus in the Form of Faith in God 11. All Karmas Becoming a Form of Bhakti 12. The Art of Ruling 13. Divine Light 14. Nirvikalp Samadhi 15. Keeping Enmity towards One’s Swabhavs 16. Faith in God and Faith in Dharma 17. The Elements in the Form of God; ‘Sthitapragna’ 18. Nastiks and Shushka-Vedantis 19. Writing a Letter Having Become Distressed by Hearing Shushka-Vedanta Scriptures 20. How Do the Faculty of Knowing and the Strength of the Indriyas of One Who Has Mastered Samadhi Increase? 21. The Main Principle 22. Two Armies; The Installation of Nar-Narayan 23. Heat and Frost 24. Resoluteness in Sankhya and in Yoga; Choko-Patlo 25. A Renunciant Who Harbors Worldly Desires and a Householder Who Has No Worldly Desires 26. Suppressing Atma-realization and Other Virtues if They Obstruct Bhakti 27. The Great Are Pleased When No Impure Desires Remain 28. Maharaj’s Compassionate Nature; A ‘Lifeline’ 29. The Characteristics of One Who Is Attached to God 30. Not Becoming Bound by Women and Gold 31. Associating with Brahma through Contemplation 32. A Cactus Plant; Unhindered Bhakti 33. The Vow of Non-Lust 34. Are the Elements Jad or Chaitanya? 35. The Underground Store of Grains 36. Four Means of Maintaining Continuous Vrutti 37. Eradicating One’s Innate Natures; Even a Person Possessing Gnan Behaves According to His Nature 38. Mancha Bhakta; ‘Merging’ 39. Natural Virtues 40. Offering One Extra Prostration 41. A Bone in the Form of Egotism 42. Akshar Has Both Sagun and Nirgun Aspects; The Key 43. Brahmaswarup Love 44. The Characteristics of Godly and Demonic People 45. Expelling the Horde of the Fifty-One Bhuts 46. The ‘Death-line’; Falling from Ekantik Dharma 47. A Split in the Pruthvi Down to Patal 48. The ‘Vandu’ Devotional Songs; Taking Birth in the Company of the Sant 49. A Great Difference Exists between God’s Form and Mayik Forms; Not Becoming Content with Spiritual Discourses, Devotional Songs, etc. 50. The Fundamental Principle; Worldly Attachment 51. The Characteristics of One Who Behaves as the Atma 52. What Befits a Renunciant and What Befits a Householder 53. Not Being Able to Perceive One’s Own Flaws Is Delusion 54. Satsang Is the Greatest Spiritual Endeavor; A ‘Gokhar’; Profound Attachment 55. A Goldsmith’s Workshop 56. A Lightly Dyed Cloth 57. The Example of a Lizard; A ‘Cat-like’ Devotee 58. The Flourishing of a Sampraday 59. Ultimate Liberation 60. Overcoming Difficulties; Being Loyal 61. Niyams, Faith in God, and Loyalty 62. Atma-Realization, Fidelity and Servitude 63. Gaining Strength 64. Purushottam Bhatt’s Question 65. The Over-Wise 66. Questions to the Senior Sadhus; Holding a Red-Hot Iron Ball 67. The Gangajaliyo Well

1. Nirvikalp Samadhi 2. Realizing God through the Four Scriptures; Kandasji’s Question 3. Four Types of Eminent Spiritual People 4. A Fountain 5. One Should Not Perceive Maya in God; Performing Similar Service 6. Chimanravji’s Question 7. The Characteristics of Godly and Demonic People; Anvay-Vyatirek 8. A Spider’s Web 9. How Can One Experience the Nirgun Bliss of God? 10. How the Jiva Attains Liberation 11. The Destruction of the Jiva; Love for the Satpurush Is the Only Means to Realizing the Atma 12. Faith Coupled with the Knowledge of God’s Greatness 13. If Brahma Pervades, How Can It Possess a Form? 14. Whom a Non-believer Considers a Sinner Is Not a Sinner, and Whom He Considers to be Sincere in His Dharma Is Not Really So 15. The Reasons for Becoming Godly and Demonic 16. Not Feeling Comfortable with Worldly Great Men 17. An Enlightened Person Has Conquered His Indriyas 18. Facts That Must Be Understood 19. Becoming a Devotee of God; Indiscretion 20. King Janak’s Understanding

1. Miraculous Meditation 2. Performing Puja after Washing and Bathing 3. The Implanted Branch of a Banyan Tree; Upsham

1. The Inclinations of Gnan and Affection 2. The Attainment of All Purusharths; Incarnate God in the Form of the Guru 3. Compassion and Affection 4. Badhitanuvrutti 5. Bhakti Coupled with the Knowledge of God’s Greatness 6. The Friendship between the Mind and the Jiva 7. An Iron Nail 8. Remaining Eternally Happy 9. The Gateway in the Form of Awareness 10. Vrundavan and Kashi 11. Understanding like that of Sitaji 12. A Magical Technique 13. Maintaining Ekantik Dharma amidst Adverse Circumstances 14. The Kayasth’s Indiscretion; A Donkey 15. Applying Bandages to Wounds 16. The Vow of Fidelity 17. The Story of Bharatji 18. The Degeneration of Worldly Desires 19. Two Undesirable Traits of a Renunciant 20. ‘Swabhav’, ‘Prakruti’ and ‘Vasana’ 21. A Golden Thread; Dharma Possesses the Same Eminence as Bhakti 22. An Intimate Form of Bhakti 23. Mansi Puja 24. Sixteen Spiritual Endeavors; Vairagya Due To Gnan 25. Pleasing Shriji Maharaj; A True Devotee of God 26. The Sant Who Suppresses His Mind and Indriyas 27. Not Keeping Any Obstinacy 28. Falling from the Path of God 29. Two Twenty-Year-Old Devotees of God 30. Constant Awareness of Five Thoughts 31. A Method of Meditation Using the Example of a Shadow 32. Committing Sins under the Pretext of Knowing God’s Greatness 33. Not Allowing the Mind to Become Affected by Four Things 34. Maintaining Desires Only for God 35. Forcefully Altering One’s Innate Nature; God Is Maligned When His Bhakta Is Maligned 36. The Most Extraordinary Spiritual Endeavor for Liberation 37. Objects Enjoyed Previously Are Remembered in Times of Poverty 38. The Sankhya Scriptures and Others; Remaining Forever Happy 39. Vishalyakarani Herbal Medicine

1. Amdavad-4: Firm Conviction of the Form of God 2. Amdavad-5: Most Extraordinary Characteristic of Shri Purushottam Nārāyan 3. Amdavad-6: Unfaltering Conviction of God 4. Amdavad-7: Firmly Fixing One’s Mind on God 5. Amdavad-8: Causes of Anger and Solutions to Overcome It 6. Ashlali: Loss Suffered by Incompletely Realizing God’s Form 7. Jetalpur-1: Means to Transcend Māyā and Profound Attachment to the Sant 8. Jetalpur-2: Characteristics of a Yati and Nature of the Jiva 9. Jetalpur-3: Method for Eradicating Impure Desires 10. Jetalpur-4: Liberation through Faith in the Manifest form of God 11. Jetalpur-5: Nothing Is Greater Than Worshipping God

Glossary Appendix A - Endnotes Appendix B - Hindu Calendar & Time Scales Appendix E - Shloks Reference Appendix F - Statistics Appendix G - Vachanamruts by Topics