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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however comes out as one of the many evidences and is purely instrumental
Stern words come forth due to our compassion laden intellect. The current time is also a factor. What happens to vegetables that become frozen in the refrigerator? One has to add some soda bicarbonate in order to cook them. Do you think 'we' like doing this?
With all the existing difficulties, you mahatmas are able to experience nirvikalp samadhi; bliss amidst all disturbances in thoughts speech and acts. A piece of potato may very well end up in your plate, but you have to quietly set it aside, without anyone's knowledge and with equanimity. But what will a person who becomes agitated say? 'Where did you get this from? Go throw it away. If 'we' were to find a piece of meat in our daal, 'we' would quietly take it out and put it inside the fold of our dhoti. Let it get dirty, but 'we' would not upset anyone. If 'we' upset anyone, then anyone who would eat the daal would become sick (kashaya laden). People have eaten so many cockroaches and lizards in this way and then they contract diseases. People develop leprosy and many other diseases. Whatever food one eats outside their home, no one keeps an eye on it, so many insects fall in the food and yet people devour that food. 'We' would hide the piece of meat and accept it as vyavasthit: 'we' would behave as if nothing has happened. Whereas these masters go berserk and start yelling with such intensity that it stuns everyone in the home. 'We' have the understanding and would question, 'Did the woman deliberately put the meat in the food?' No. She must have walked away to do something and a crow came along to take a piece of rotli and dropped a piece of meat it was carrying in its beak. Just look at all the evidences that take place. Therefore, people should be prepared for all kinds of things. Should you not maintain awareness of all different circumstances that take place?
The ego increases in proportion to the amount of renunciation a person undergoes and his anger too increases accordingly. A self-indulgent person is better than the one that goes around saying, 'I renounced this. 'At least the former will say, 'I don't understand anything.' It is natural for people to make distinction and compare. A family man may feel that man is a renunciant; he can do everything, but I am a family man.' This is ling bheda (distinctional divisions amongst people). How is an ordinary family man to accomplish anything when such distinctions remain? Nevertheless, 'we' are a prime example for these family men. 'We too have a family. 'We too pay income tax. Knowing this will break down the perceived distinctions and give people encouragement.
The Lord has said there is no moksha for either the renunciant or the family man. The family man renounces nothing and so he has the ego of acquisitiveness (grahan), whereas the renunciant has ego of renouncing (tyaga). Both have ego of what they do and as long as there is egoism, there is no liberation. Nevertheless, on the Kramic path which does call for renunciation, one has to have the ego of doer-ship in order to purify his ego. The soap that cleanses leaves behind its own residue on the cloth. That residue has to be cleaned with Tinopal bleach. Tinopal will remove the soap's residue but leave behind its own residue; things continue in this manner to the end. The guru leaves behind his 'dirt' on the disciple. The disciple, through his own dirt will have to cleanse the dirt of his guru, because the guru is not pure himself. The Gnani purush however is absolutely pure and taints no one. The gurus of the Kramic path will inevitably leave their dirt' on their disciples, whereas on this Akram path, you are made to attain only the pure Self. Whatever company one associates with the influence of that company is inevitable. The Gnani Purush alone is pure and therefore you can rest assured you will not be tainted with any 'dirt