Talk on 31 March, 2024, on the nature of merit and meritorious births, the inseparability of our dharma and destiny, and the way of digambara avadhutas.

0:00 Avadhuta Gita and Swami Samarth Lilamrita--The State of An Avadhuta and What Their Life Looks Like, Respectively
1:52 We Can Never Truly Grasp the Nature of Avadhutas
2:45 Steeping Ourselves in the Divine Presence and Fragrance of Avadhutas
3:54 Reading Mind-Dissolving Books That Transmit the Natural State of Awareness; Natural Meditation; Opportunities for Service / Seva
6:52 The Divine, Sun-like Activity of Shri Swami Samarth; Purity in a Spiritual Search
10:22 Merit Karma and the Deceitful Behaviour of Shri Swami Samarth's Close Female Devotee; Sometimes Masters Just Let Things Happen--They Don't Try and Protect Themselves
13:20 What is the Meaning of Digambara?; Avadhutas Are Taken Care of By The Supreme Mother, Nature Itself
16:03 Dzogchen Buddhism and the Avadhuta State: 'It's Like Arriving On An Island of Gold, And Everything Is Gold'
18:54 Merit Doesn't Last Forever; Born As Billionaires: Karma and Eligibility
21:21 Samsara In a Nutshell: Attachment and Identification of Happiness With Changing Things, Changing Experiences
22:45 Good Positions From Merit Are Based On Wealth, Intelligence, Beauty and Creativity; Yoga Vasishtha: Kings Used to Sit at the Feet of Sages; Narayan Maharaj, the Servant-King
27:08 Auspicious Births and the Ultimate Wisdom; Abuse of Power and Position; You Can't Attach to What Good Merit Has Brought You
29:52 Wrinkling Up Like An Old Prune: Time Eats Away at Conditional Pleasure and It Leads to Conditional Misery
31:10 Be Grateful for Merit, But Remember That It's Temporary; Going Beyond Merit to Become the Source of Merit; The End Goal is To Go Beyond All Conditions, All Positions
33:42 Recap: The Best Way to Handle Merit (Four Aspects); If You Have Something, Give It, Use Your Gifts and Talents; Bhagavad Gita: Tightrope Walking Between Supreme Consciousness and Fighting In A War
36:14 We Each Have a Job To Do In This World--Our Dharma; Cultivating An Attitude of Service in Existence
38:12 Arjuna and Destiny; Your Dharma and Destiny Is Completely Unique to You
41:02 When Someone or Something Comes to You and There's a Charge There--That's Destiny; When You Dissolve the Mind, There's No Arguing With Destiny; Acceptance No Matter What
43:32 Yoga Vasishtha: 'The Lord Should Be Worshipped With Everything That Is Attained Without Effort. One Should Never Make the Least Effort To Attain That Which One Does Not Possess'
44:38 The Two Aspects of Karmic Destiny: Intensity and Duration; Masters Dance Through Life Without Ambition, Attachment or Fear; Masters Create No New Karma For Themselves
48:41 Avoiding Cunning and Control In Going for What We Want; When You Are Self-Sufficient Within Your Own Being and You Don't Need Anything, That's When You Start to Dance Through Life--Not Attached to the Outcome
50:05 Extreme Nonviolence: Allowing People Total Freedom To Be How They Are
51:35 Fully Accepting the Good Along With the Bad In Our Lives; Acceptance, Patience, Endurance and Gratitude; Everything Has A Time Limit In This World
53:43 The Essence of Masters and Great Liberated Beings: Easy Come, Easy Go--They're Happy No Matter What; 100% Acceptance is Already Gratitude
56:07 The Approach of Just Doing Nothing; Different People Need Different Ways to Approach The Truth, Reality; Being Authentic, Being Yourself and Accepting Impermanence

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