In the Samvat year 1876 on the eleventh day of the bright half of the month of Paush in the afternoon Shreeji Maharaj was seated on a wooden bedstead laid in the veranda in front of the hall facing the east in the Durbar of Dada Khachar in Gadhada. He had put on a white turban on His head and put white upper garment over His shoulders. He had covered His body with a large white double sheet of cotton. Two large flowers of guldavadi adorned His ears and a tassel of flowers was hanging from His turban. saints and devotees from various places had gathered before Him in an assembly. Saints were singing devotional songs with the accompaniment of musical instruments, like tal and

Then Shreeji Maharaj asked the saints to stop singing and said, “Listen to me. I am going to sing ,a different sort of devotional song today.” There upon the saints said, ”Very fine. Kindly begin.”

Then Shreeji Maharaj said. “It is very nice if, one is engrossed in. the divine image of God, while singing amorous devotional songs. But it is a matter of  great loss if one also takes interest in things other than the divine image of God while singing such amorous songs. This is because he seems to be equally interested in the words of the song and the musical instruments as well as in the sweet voices of women as much as he is interested in the words of the devotional songs. We must consider such a devotee to be wanting in his sense of discretion. You should not be interested in other objects as you are interested in God and His saints. You should never commit such a folly. You should feel happy only by the words of God. Such a devotee a true devotee. A true devotee likes only the sound and touch of God. He considers the touch of other objects to be like the touch of a black cobra, or of the burning charcoal. He is the true devotee who becomes happy by the mere sight of the divine image of God and dislikes other objects as if they were ‘a heap of excreta. or a rotten dog. He relishes very much only the objects that are offered to God and does not relish other tasteful dishes. He finds pleasure in different flavors of garlands and scents and sandalwood paste and tulsi leaves offered to God, He dislikes the flavor of garlands worn by some lustful person, or the smell of the scents and sandalwood paste applied to such a person. He loves very much objects related to God and dislikes worldly objects of five senses. A devotee who gets pleasure in those objects that have come in contact with God and also finds pleasure from sound, sight, smell, touch, and taste related to other worldly objects. is not a true devotee, because he finds equal pleasure from objects related to God and from other objects. One must avoid such pleasure and worship. God is not spurious but the affection and the worship of such a devotee are spurious. They cannot be called genuine because he has considered other objects equal to those, which have come in contact with God. Hence his affection and worship are false.

Till now I told you about the sense of discretion. I told you to discriminate between the enjoyment of objects related to God and those related to other things with reference to the sthool [physical] body during the wakeful state of mind. But the same is true about the sense of discrimination between the enjoyment of objects related to God and those related to other things with reference to the sookshma, [subtle] body, during the

dreamful state of mind. Even in his dreams, if the devotee takes as much delight in the enjoyment of objects related to other things as he takes in the enjoyment of objects related to God then his love for God cannot be called genuine. A devotee is a  true devotee, if he finds pleasure in objects related to God even in dreams and treats other objects with disgust as if they were vomited food. God whom he sees in his dreams is real God. But if he loves other objects as much as he loves God then his understanding is  wrong. One’s understanding is right only when he is attracted towards God, and not  towards other things. When a devotee meditates only on God, he finds vacuum all around, and in that vacuum he sees only God’s  image and nothing else not even his body nor the universe around him, And while he sees the image of God bright light dawns around him and the image of God is seen clearly in the middle of that light. If one loves God only, his love can be compared with the love of a pativrata [chaste and devoted woman]

When you sing amorous songs I close my eyes and meditate and think along these lines. And though I may ponder even for a short while nothing except God can shy in my mind I am sure that anything that comes in the way of my amorous love for God is immediately annihilated. So powerful is my mind. As you compose devotional songs I have also composed this devotional song in the form of my discourse and revealed it before you.”

Thus Shreeji Maharaj conducted the discourse under this pretext for the good of the devotees.