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Sarangpur-9: The Prevalence of the Dharma of the Yugs; ‘Sthān’

Summary

1. The gunas are the reason the dharmas of the yugs prevail in one’s heart. The cause of the activities of those gunas are karmas.

1. When pure sattvagun is prevalent, Satya-yug prevails in the heart.
2. When sattvagun and rajogun are prevalent together, Tretā-yug prevails in the heart.
3. When rajogun and tamogun are prevalent together, Dwāpar-yug prevails in the heart.
4. When tamogun alone is prevalent, Kali-yug prevails in the heart.

2. If a person in whom rajogun and tamogun are prevalent:

1. He should utilise the strength of ātmā-realisation and God’s greatness.
2. He should not insist on meditating or concentrating.
3. He should engage in physical worship as much as possible.
4. He should physically serve God and the Sant with shraddhā.
5. He should abide by his dharma.
6. He should believe himself to be fulfilled.

3. If one has intense shraddhā and extremely firm faith in the words of God and the Sant:

1. Whatever type of tāmasik karmas he may have performed will be destroyed.
2. The dharma of Kali-yug will also vanish, and the dharma of Satya-yug will prevail.
3. No fault will remain in one’s heart.
4. One will become brahmarup in this very lifetime.

4. ‘Sthān’:

1. An individual’s dharma according to the four castes and the four āshrams should be known as ‘sthān’.
2. If a renunciant were to leave his fold and tread the path of householders, then he would be known to have diverted from his ‘sthān’.
3. Even in the most difficult circumstances or even if Shriji Mahārāj were to issue a command, one should not deviate from their dharma.