31 LIVE Can you be WRONG when spiritual? શિક્ષાપત્રી અને શ્રી સ્વામિનારાયણ

0:00 – Om Shri Swaminarayanaya Namah mantra 7x
1:19 – Gurus are never wrong & know everything except for the down-to-earth Swami Vivekananda, reading excerpt from 1894 letter by Swami Vivekananda
5:51 – Not asking questions is the end to personal growth, comfort & difficulties stop questions, asking questions leads to self-awareness
8:33 – Do others enter into mental philosophical/ethical debates, can one ever be wrong/make mistakes in spiritual life
9:35 – Defining ways of being wrong: being factually wrong, non-quantifiable theologically ignorant mistakes, mistakes causing harm
19:31 – Religious leaders & people are rarely wrong, Hindu guru switches blame to student for own faults, Christian writer accuses critics of not being spiritually enlightened enough to understand his anti-Biblical ideas
23:13 – Never being wrong stops self-awareness which disrupts relationship with god, no one is never wrong
25:41 – Thoughts on recording morning live stream
26:48 – I was wrong on interpreting Shikshapatri on this channel (my 7 part Shikshapatri playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjaLGCrOi_o&list=PL6GJzKoS5oUZBD_6EPYwbto4oqxwZv8yR)
30:01 – First response to reading Shikshapatri was conflicted emotions
34:00 – Story of finding a connection with Swaminarayan theology via devotee, previous interest in Ramanujacharya due to Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya of International Sanatana Dharma Society
36:16 – Re-visiting my old videos of Shikshapatri I had said it was impossible to follow due to my ignorance, seeing big picture, fixing mistake by re-editing old videos
41:30 – Being wrong led to becoming devotee of Bhagavan Swaminarayan & expanded my personal spirituality
44:22 – Would being wrong change religious landscape

Live 4/29/2023, live and off the cuff.

This podcast was mentioned after the fact by Dr. Babaria of the Arizona Vedic Cultural Center during a satsang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afogTDEOsfE

To discover more of Sri Swaminarayan a great easy to digest site is the Arizona Vedic Cultural Center's youtube for both informative videos and their weekly satsang: https://www.youtube.com/@azvedicgurukul

I have assisted in editing an American English translation of the Shikshapatri available here (free download from the Arizona Vedic Cultural Center of the Shree Swaminarayan Gurukul USA): https://azvedicgurukul.com/2023/01/29/shikshapatri/

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