Videos: Mar 27th, 2021

Jai Shri Krishna
Jai Shri Swaminarayan
Jai Shri Ramachandra
OM Namah Shivayah
Jai Hanuman Dada
Shri Ganeshay Namah

Satsang – Saturday, March 20th, 2021 – Vachanãmrut 52, Gadhadã I – 52

Realizing Bhagvãn Through The Four Shãstras – Wednesday the 2nd of February, 1820

Satsang – Saturday, March 27th, 2021 – Vachanãmrut 157, Gadhadã II – 24

Firmness In Sãnkhya & In Yog – Friday the 26th of July, 1822

The Four Philosophical Schools:

Sãnkhya

• teaches Vairagya (detachment from the objects of worldly senses)
• helps one to understand the greatness of God
• teaches the nature of happiness and unhappiness and where they arise from (our Karmas under the effects of the three Gunas)
• will not help one join with God

Yog

• helps one join with God
• teaches meditation upon God but not whom to meditate upon or what form

Vedãnta

• teaches us what God to meditate upon and his divine form
• gives us knowledge of God’s omnipresence, his role as the doer and non-doer and his perfection

Panch-Rãtra

• gives us knowledge of who God is as the supreme personality, his incarnations, and the nine-fold service to God (nine forms of devotional service or bhakti)
• shravanam – listening to kathãs or kirtans related to Bhagvãn.
• kirtanam – singing or talking about Bhagvãn.
• smaranam – remembering Bhagvãn.
• pãd-sevanam – massaging Bhagvãn’s holy feet.
• archanam – performing Bhagvãn’s pujã (ãrti, thãl, sandalwood paste)
• vandanam – bowing before Bhagvãn.
• dãsyam – behaving as the servant of Bhagvãn.
• sakhyam – behaving as the friend of Bhagvãn.
• ãtma-nivedanam – unconditionally offering everything to Bhagvãn.

Performance of any or all of these forms of devotional service allows one to join with God.