Aptavani 02

SR No.: 007535
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation
Publication Year: 2007
Total Pages: 303
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Akram Vigyan
File Size: 34 KB

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and you do not see any material possession on him, he is a parigrahi (with worldly attachment) if he has raag-dwesh within. One becomes a vitarag when raag-dwesh leaves. 'I am Chandulal' is parigraha (raag, attachment). Raag-dwesh verily is acquisitiveness (parigraha), and non-possession (aparigraha) is the awareness 'I am pure Soul'.
After you attain this Gnan, there is no raag or dwesh even when you fight with each other that in itself is a wonder! On the other hand, a person who does not have this Gnan has raagdwesh even when he does not argue or fight. Fighting does not create raag-dwesh, but the link (tanto) within that continues, is the raag-dwesh.
Questioner : What is tanto (lingering effects, link), Dada?
Dadashri : It is the connection (tant). If you fight with your wife at night and in the morning when she serves you breakfast, she bangs your teacup on the table; you will immediately realize that there is still a connection to the circumstances of the previous night. That is called tanto. The one, whose tanto is gone, becomes vitarag. 'We are taking the responsibility and giving a guarantee of liberation for anyone who does not harbor any links with anything.
There is raag-dwesh where there is ignorance, and there is vitaragata (non-attachment) where there is Gnan.
Questioner : What does it mean when we keep remembering something?
Dadashri : When you remember things, it is because of your raag-dwesh towards it. If you did not keep remembering then you would forget whatever entanglements and problems you created. Why is it that you don't remember people you meet casually, but you remember the close ones who have died? There is a karmic account with them; because there is raag
dwesh there. By doing pratikraman, you will be rid of the 'stickiness' that binds you. At night you will remember the ones towards whom you have attachment and you will also remember the ones for whom you have abhorrence. People have attachment towards money. People have attachment towards the wife. The only attachment worth having, it is the attachment for the Gnani. 'We have neither attachment nor abhorrence: 'we' are completely vitarag
'am Chandulal', is the false location which has occurred because of raag-attachment. This means that there is abhorrence towards the Self (swaroop). What is the principle? When raag exists at one location, then dwesh exists at the other end, because raag and dwesh are two sides of the same coin. This is the nature of duality (dwandva). So become a vitarag. A Vitarag is beyond all duality (dwandvatita).
If you lend hundred thousand rupees, no one will come near you, but if you owe anything, someone will definitely come to collect. And what is this debt that you owe? It is a debt of vengeance. All attachment leads to a debt of vengeance, which in turn leads to attachment, which leads to vengeance. This verily is what perpetuates the worldly life. Vitarag Lords knew that one has to finish the account of suffering of debts and credits before he can be liberated. A person will move towards liberation only when he realizes that vitarag Lords can give liberation. You can only find liberation with the vitarag Lords, no where else.
It should be such that raag does not arise when one is praised and dwesh does not arise when one is criticized. Compliments vakhan) or criticism (vakhod) are two sons of the same mother, so why differentiate between them? We should be able to give both; we should be able to praise as well as criticize. We should not keep our mouth shut in either situations; the difference is only in the inner intent (bhaav). If you take a