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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the sleep then is very restful. Knowledge through the five senses shows inconvenience and the knowledge of Self makes it convenient. Therefore, remain as the Self.
this. What happens when one understands this fact? He will experience less pain and more happiness and pleasure. One does not need scriptures for that. Happiness will follow for sure if he does just this much. Whatever effect one experiences is going to be experienced by the others also, is it not? If you do not perceive a good intent (bhaav) towards you, then do not let such intent which hurts others arise within you. How can you hurt others with what hurts you?
Thoughts What are thoughts? When a tuber in the mind sprouts, the sprouting is in the form of thoughts. You can read these thoughts. Thoughts make you get up, sit down, do this, do that, make you run around. Such are thoughts. Thoughts that do not make one get up, sit down, or run around are considered tamed thoughts. Thoughts that make you run around are not tamed.
The entity that complains from within is the mind; it is the thoughts which speak from within, but these are thoughts that you have stored from the past life. There are many thoughts that do not arise within and that is because you have not stored them. Only that which has been stored within will come out. So only the thoughts one has stored will shout and complain. Whatever one has stored has become established within; will they not shout and complain?
If a thought turns bad it will leave a stain behind so do not let it become bad and tainted (do not support it), this is all that you have to understand. You have to be particularly careful in this satsang that thoughts do not become bad. If the thought becomes bad, everything will become bad. If you think you are going to fall then you will fall. Therefore, do pratikraman right away and come back to the Self. Our religion (Akram Vignan) says to look for the positive in the negative. At night if a thought
this bed sheet is dirty,' arises, then 'we' make an adjustment right away by saying "This bed sheet feels really smooth" and
If your friend is sick, you have to tell him to seek medical treatment. You may even have thoughts that he is not going to make it. Such thoughts will discourage you and make you emotionally weak, they are not helpful. These thoughts are the cause of the worldly life. By nature, thoughts are impatient and unsteady but You should not become impatient and unsteady along with them. They will keep on coming, and when they do, you have to remain the knower and the perceiver of these thoughts. The Self is present when you know your thoughts. You simply have to know that first Chandulal passed away, and then Chaturlal passed away, that is all.
Questioner : Many thoughts come, but it is later that I realize that they were only thoughts: does that mean I became engrossed (tanmayakar) with the thoughts?
Dadashri : If you do not get involved with the thoughts, then the Self remains the Self. At times when many thoughts come all at once, the awareness is not present but when you realize later on that the thoughts had engulfed you, that in itself shows that the Self is present.
After Self-realization, the force of thoughts do not cause any harm. The only problem is that they obstruct the bliss of the
Self
How many children come running together out of the school when it ends? When the bell rings, in the beginning a crowd of students will come out, then a few at a time. It is the same with thoughts too. However, the Self never relinquishes its state as the knower-seer, only the bliss of the Self is obstructed. The Self never leaves its own nature (swabhav) for something else (vibhav). One has to understand all this in precise detail