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Sometimes it is hard to find good paan mouth after meal mixture made from beetlenut leaf, but if someone manages to find one, he will tell you three times, 'It was not available anywhere, but I got it.' That is garvaras. He will tell you, 'I went out and looked for it everywhere. I found it otherwise you would not have been able to enjoy it.' He takes garvaras in this. He enjoys it very much.
Questioner: It is wrong to take garva, is it not?
Dadashri: The worldly life is based on garva doership. The seed for the worldly life is garva, not ego.
Questioner: How is garva a seed?
Dadashri: There is no sweetness in the ego ahamkar.. The ego offers no enjoyment but garvaras juice of doership, is very sweet! Pride and abhimaan have some sweetness also but not as much as garvaras. There is nothing as tasteful as garvaras.
Only ‘Science' will liberate you from garva
So we are not the real doers, some other entity is the doer. One makes the false claim of doesrship arop, makes the aropit bhav of 'I am doing this.' Then one gets to taste the juice of doership garvaras. This garvaras tastes very sweet, and this binds karma. Tasted garvaras, made a false claim, karma is bound.
Once one knows it all as it is, that, 'I am not the doer', 'this is being done by vyavasthit', then from that moment, one becomes liberated. One should have such a science Vignan within. Then there will be absolutely no attachment raag or abhorrence dwesh, no? Through the Vignan You will know that you are not 'this'. This, what I am speaking, is not my Vignan; it is the Vignan of the Vitarags, the Vignan of the twenty-four tirthankaras. Without this Vitarag Vignan, how can one attain the Self and see it as it is?
Questioner: According to your 'theory, it is vyavasthit that runs everything, nevertheless garvaras continues to occur in him, no?