Vaat 1.247
Swamini Vato Prakaran 1 Vaat 247 · 1 · Verse 247
Sanskrit Original
Dattātreye be jīvnu kalyāṇ karyu,1 Kapile ek jīvnu kalyāṇ karyu2 ne Ṛuṣhabhdeve so jīvnu kalyāṇ karyu.3 Ane āj Sādhu kahe, “Ame daivī jīvnu kalyāṇ karīe paṇ āsurīnu kalyāṇ amārāthī thāy nahi.” Tyāre Bhagwān kahe, “Āsurīnu kalyāṇ ame karashu.” Te Munjo Sūru4 ne Mānbhā5 ne Joban Pagī6 ne Takho Pagī,7 e to pāpnā parvat kahevāy; ene to Bhagwān satsang karāve paṇ e Sādhuthī vaḷe nahi. Footnotes: 1. 1. 1. Kārtavīrya. 2. Yadurājā. 2. Potānā mātushrīnu. 3. Potānā so putrone sansārnī asārtā samajāvī tyāgāshram levaḍāvī kalyāṇ karyu. 4. Soraṭh panthaknā Lilākhā gāmno bhayankar lūnṭāro. 5. Roj chakalānī jībhnu shirāmaṇ karanār Mengaṇīnā rājā Mānsinha. 6. Charotarnā Vaḍtāl gāmno chor, lūnṭāro. Pagī - pageru kāḍhī chorne pakaḍnārī kom. 7. Bāmrolī gāmno lūnṭāro.
Dattatrey redeemed two jivas, Kapil redeemed one jiva (his mother, Devhuti) and Rishabhdev redeemed a hundred jivas (his sons).1 And today this sadhu says, “We will redeem virtuous jivas but are unable to redeem evil jivas.” At that time Bhagwan Swaminarayan said, “We will grant liberation to the sinful.” Munjo Suru, Manbha, Joban Pagi and Takho Pagi2 were all called mountains of sin. God can lead them to Satsang, but a sadhu2 is not able to do so. Footnotes: 1. 1. Dattatrey liberated Kartavirya and King Yadu. Kapil Muni liberated his mother. Rishabhdevji liberated his 100 sons by preaching to them about the perishable nature of the world and inspiring them to renounce. 2. Munjo Suru – a notorious dacoit in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat. Manbha – the ruler of Meghni village in Junagadh district. Daily he ate 500g of sparrows’ tongues! Joban Pagi – a notorious dacoit of Vartal village in the Kheda district of Gujarat. Takho Pagi – a notorious dacoit of Bamroli village in the Kheda district of Gujarat. All four were transformed by their association with Bhagwan Swaminarayan and became virtuous devotees. 3. Here, sadhu should not be understood as Aksharbrahman, but should be understood as ordinary sadhus. Since God resides in the Aksharbrahman Satpurush in totality, he also has the same power to transform evil jivas into pious ones.