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ભગવાન સ્વામિનારાયણનાં
॥ વચનામૃત ॥
Gadhada I-44: A Red-hot Branding Iron; A Dagli
Summary
- Characteristics of one who as total affection for God:
- He has an unbroken remembrance of God.
- If he harbours thoughts other than those of God, then he experiences misery equivalent to being branded on the forehead by a red-hot branding iron.
- Only by keeping profound association with the Satpurush can one develop intense love for God.
- If one has a dagli sewn by a tailor and he believes the tailor is his father and the tailor’s wife is his mother, he would be considered foolish. Similarly, the jiva has obtained a dagli in the form of the physical body in 8.4 million life forms. A person who believes the body to be his true self and believes the parents of that body to be his own parents is called a fool.
- As long as a person believes the body to be his true self, his entire understanding is totally useless.
- As long as he continues to harbour vanity of his caste or āshram, he will never imbibe the virtues of a sadhu.
- After discarding the feelings of I-ness and my-ness for the body and its relations, believing one’s ātmā to be brahmarup, and after forsaking all worldly desires, if a person worships God while observing swadharma, he should be known as a sādhu. No distance remains between Purushottam Bhagwān and a person who has cultivated such qualities of a sādhu.
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