Aptavani 01

SR No.: 007534
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation
Publication Year: 2007
Total Pages: 165
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Akram Vigyan
File Size: 20 KB

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attachment-greed; these kashayas steal from none other than their very own self. If these four were starved for three years, they would leave. Now what is the food they survive on? How can you starve them to death if you do not know what feeds them? Because people do not have an understanding of this, all four continue to be fed. How do they survive? How have they managed to survive since time immemorial? One must stop feeding them. No one has thought about it in this way and they continue their struggle to rid themselves of these kashayas by beating on them and trying to suppress them. These four are not likely to go easily. It is only when the Self separates, that internal cleansing of these four occurs. These kashayas will not submit to violence or coersion. They will only submit to non-violent means.
A spiritual master will scold his disciples when he gets angry. If someone questions his anger, he would say that his disciples deserve to be scolded. That is it! He is finished! Such a comment is food for anger. When people become angry, they protect and justify their anger, and that is the very food anger survives on.
And what is the food for pride? If you see Chandulal passing by, you call out to him and greet him with respect, he feels pleased and elated, his ego becomes inflated; that is food for Chandulal's pride.
Everything, except the Self requires food to survive.
I welcome all four kashayas, anger-pride-attachment-greed but I do not feed them.
From where do these four originate? Their origin lies in the fostering and feeding the relative self because of one's ignorance of one's Real Self. They originate from the charged relative self. Gnani Purush puts a stop to the charging. He fractures the wrong belief that charges the self. By establishing the Self and the bliss of the Self, one's fascination for the transitory world leaves. Thus one gets released from these four kashayas.
Gnani Purush is capable of doing whatever he desires. These kashayas of anger-pride-attachment-greed is a bridge, a connecting link between the Self and the non-Self. They are the link between Gnan and agnan. Otherwise, why should God, who is free from attachment, be attached?
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When there are natural calamities like cyclones or volcanic eruptions in foreign countries, say Peru for example, the Prime Ministers of nations will call cabinet meetings. They will send out letters of condolence to the Prime Minister of Peru through their Foreign Affairs Minister. They express their heartfelt grief over the death and damage caused by the disaster. They express sorrow and sympathy on behalf of their nation and comfort them by flying their flags at half-mast. On the one hand they draft letters of condolence and on the other they continue indulging in eating and drinking and going to parties. Thus they remain
A tight-fisted person asks you to buy a packet of tea for him. You pay thirty paisas for the tea packet but when he says to you, 'How could you pay so much for the packet?' his words become food for his greed. On the other hand an extravagant person will say it's a good quality tea at eighty paisas per packet, this too is food for his greed of lavishness. You should remain within normal boundaries.
Now what nourishes deceit? A businessman is heavily involved in black-marketeering but when it comes to deceit, he will clearly and vehemently announce that under no circumstances does he deal in the black-market. On the contrary he will give the impression of being an ethical and honorable person. This is the food for his deceit.