Dharma
What is dharma?
Your responsibility, righteousness, duty, and morality.
What is gnan?
Knowledge that Leads to Spiritual Enlightenment
What is vairagya?
The detachment from material objects and pursuits of the world, and complete attachment and love for Bhagwan.
what is bhakti?
Bhakti is the act of worshiping God or offering devotion to God.
What can you do to follow your dharma?
Satsang reading and following our niyams and aganas. Ex: Pramukh Swami Maharaj and Mahant Swami Maharaj both really push for us to not eat meat, not eat onion and garlic, not eat eggs, do Ekadashi, do puja daily, and study hard!
What can we do to understand the greatness of our gurus? What can we do to please them?
Satsang reading, listening to katha, sant samagam will help us understand their greatness. Pleasing them is simply following niyams - daily Tilak Chandlo, on onion/garlic, daily puja, panchang pranam to parents everyday, etc.
How should we rather spend our time?
instead of using it on videogames, try and limit it and do more satsang related activities.
what was the prasang of parvatbhai?
Parvatbhai was working on the farm. At noon, he stopped ploughing and started offering thal in his mind to Maharaj. Seeing this, a ploughman thought Parvatbhai was dozing and so he prodded him with a stick. When he came closer he saw curd had rolled down from Parvatbhai’s empty hands. The ploughman was surprised to see the curd appear out of nowhere. When he asked where it came from, Parvatbhai replied, “I was mentally offering Maharaj curd and cooked rice. You prodded me at the very instant I was offering the curd and so it rolled off my hands.”
what is the duties of a person in their brahmachariya (student life) stage of life
list 5 reasons, if your reason is reasonable then I will give you the point, even if it’s not an official answer
list 7 scriptures in BAPS that we can read to increase or gnan
Vachnamrut, Swami ni vat, Jivan charitra (all of them count as only 1), shikshapatri, satsang diksha, bhaktachintamani, purushottam bolya priti
Shashtriji Maharaj's building mandirs
he was making bochasan and sarangpur mandir at the same time, while having no money in the kothar. Shastriji maharaj had complete faith in Bhagwan that he had no concern for the lack of money
Name 5 daily ahniks
puja, arti, thaal, chesta, satsang reading, Guruhari darshan
Which guru made sure that the devotee did not leave hungry
Pramukh Swami, he did this after the devotee was high-tempered and talking bad about PSM
Who was disappointed at damodarbhai? Did this make damodarbhai leave satsang? (Hint : rampratpbhai)
Damordarbhai married twice and Rampratapbhai came to know of this. After the darshan of Nar-Narayan Dev, when Damodarbhai went for the darshan of Rampratapbhai, the latter got up from his seat, took a stick in his hand and rebuked, “When you were initiated into the Satsang you had taken a vow that you will consider all women except your own wife to be your mother, sister and daughter. Now you have married again. Tell me from which world have you brought this woman? Don’t show me your face again and do not come to me!” In this way, Rampratapbhai used to always insult and scold Damodarbhai, yet he did not develop any ill-will towards the Satsang. He continued his old practice of regularly going for darshan of Nar-Narayan Dev and Rampratapbhai. Such a humble and steadfast devotee of Shriji Maharaj was Damodarbhai because of his gnan that he developed for Shriji Maharaj and his true glory. His gnan about Shriji Maharaj allowed him to remain a steadfast devotee.
how many siblings did shantilal have and where was he born?
9/Chansad
what was the prasang of msm missing mangala aarti?
Mahant Swami Maharaj loves bhakti. His immense love for bhakti and ahnik can be seen from the way he makes it a point to attend mangala aarti wherever he is. In fact, he always reaches mangala aarti before time. In 2013, Mahant Swami Maharaj came to Selvas mandir. It is the norm for all mandirs to do mangala aarti at 6:00 AM. However, in Selvas, mangala aarti takes place at 5:45 AM, and the local Pujya santo forgot to inform Mahant Swami Maharaj about it. Next morning, as per his routine, three minutes before 6:00 AM, Mahant Swami Maharaj was walking towards the mandir. As he was going up the steps, he saw other Pujya santo coming down. He then asked, “Is mangala aarti over?” The Pujya santo replied that it was. Mahant Swami Maharaj was shocked hearing this. His face reflected how disheartened he was to miss mangala aarti. Saddened, he returned to his utaro and continued with his daily routine. After some time, everyone realized that Mahant Swami Maharaj had not taken his morning breakfast and had decided to observe a fast. The local Pujya santo went to Mahant Swami Maharaj and said, “It’s our fault that you missed mangala aarti, so if anyone needs repent, it should be us and not you.” There were tears in their eyes as they tried to talk Mahant Swami Maharaj out of his fast.
What was the prasang of pragji bhagat following gunatitanand swami's wish? (hint: dog)
Once while a haveli was being constructed some slabs of stone were lying outside the mandir. And a dead dog lay on top of the slabs. Everybody thought that a scavenger would come and remove the dead dog. Meanwhile, Swami asked Pragji, “Why has the supply of stones from outside stopped?” He went and saw the dead dog lying on the stones. He thought that he should remove the dead dog because Swami had asked him, only then would the work continue. He changed his clothes and removed the dead dog. Then he took a bath and returned to the mandir. The work began. Gunatitanand Swami was greatly pleased. Some people made faces, while others criticized Pragji for acting as a scavenger. On hearing this, Swami observed, “Every living being is, in a sense, a scavenger. What wrong has been committed by Pragji in helping the work restart by removing the dog? After all, he has acted according to my wishes.”
When was Mahant Swami Maharaj born? what were his parents' names?
September 13. 1933/ Manibhai and Dahiben
when was shastrji maharaj born, and who were his parents?
January 31, 1865/ Dhoribhai and Hetba
what are the nine types of bhakti?
Shravanam. This is when we hear about God, which can be done through katha and kirtans.
Kirtanam. It is exactly what it sounds like! This is singing the glory of God! We are doing this while singing along to our favorite bhajan or kirtan all the time!
Smaranam. Remembering God and all of his divine actions. This can be done easily in our morning puja.
Padsevanam. Serving God’s holy feet and we can do this by performing seva.
Archanam. Offering pujan to and worshipping God. There are many ways we can perform Archanam such as our daily puja, mansi, thaal, and mahapuja.
Vandanam. Bowing down before God. We are doing this every time we fold our hands, do dandvats, or panchang pranam.
Dasyam. This is when we offer devotion to God and His Bhakta as His servant, such as the seva we dowithout expecting any reward or prize in return.
Sakhyam. Offering devotion to God as a close friend of His. We can do this by forming a friendship withGod and remembering Him all day.
Atmanivedanam. Offering ourselves and everything we have to God.