In a question-answer dialogue with Swamishri during the ‘Divya Sannidhi camp’, a number of questions were first asked to the BAPS volunteers and then to Swamishri.

Q: What does Swamishri like?

Volunteers: Cultivating the virtues Swamishri possesses, such as, harmony (samp), friendship (suhradbhav), unity (ekta). Doing ghar sabha. Humility. To abstain from watching television,…

Swamishri: Everyone has given the answers to what I like – to do ghar sabha, not to be cynical about others, etc. This is all true but the heart of the matter is that one should dissolve one’s dehbhav and offer devotion (to God). If dehbhav remains then all problems remain. We see faults in others because of our dehbhav. If one’s dehbhav is erased then, automatically, all problems and conflicts will be solved. If one dissolves one’s dehbhav and attains brahmabhav – the conviction that I am atma – then one will not have any problems or lose interest in spiritual discourses, kirtans and bhajans.

This dehbhav cannot be eradicated immediately because it has befriended the atma for a very long time. This friendship is a bond with one’s own body, base nature, desires, senses and mind. It can be erased by engaging oneself in discourses, bhajan, seva and bhakti. We should pray to God to protect us from ‘I-ness’ and ‘Mine-ness’.