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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God-das (Bhagwandas). God is an adjective: just as fortunate (bhagyavan) came from the word fortune (bhagya); from the word Godlike (bhagwat) came the term God (Bhagwan). These are God-like qualities and so this adjective applies to any man who attains them.
I am Chandulal' is the wrong state (apad), it is the state which leads to death (maranpad). He who sits in the wrong state (apad) and does bhakti is a bhakta and I am Shuddhatma' is the state of the Self (swapad). He, who sits in the state of the Self and does bhakti of the Self, is God.
Day and night this A. M. Patel is constantly absorbed in the bhakti of 'Dada Bhagwan who has manifested within and he bows thousand times a day to this Lord within.
As long as one has not fully attained the Self (become fully enlightened) he should constantly feel, 'the Gnani Purush verily is my Self. Devotion to the Gnani is devotion of the Self within What is the nature of devotion? One becomes that which he is worshipping. In the bhakti of the Gnani Purush lies the highest of kirtan bhakti. When does kirtan bhakti arise? Kirtan bhakti arises when not a single thought of disgrace arises, when no matter how negative everything is, you see positive in it. There is never anything negative in the Gnani Purush. There is no effort in kirtan bhakti and tremendous energies arise through kirtan bhakti.
Moksha is only a quarter mile away Dadashri : Is there moksha or not?
Questioner : Yes, I have complete faith in that there is moksha and therefore there has to be a path to it and someone who knows that path.
Dadashri : Yes, 'we' are the knower of that path. You will find someone to show you the way to Santa Cruz, but the path to moksha is very narrow and like a maze, and it is very rare to find someone to show you that path. If you find such a person, a bestower of moksha, should you not ask him to show you the way? 'This' is the only cash bank in the world.
I give you moksha; I give you 'cash' (the direct experience of the Self) in your 'hand', within an hour. Am I asking you to keep faith for a month? To those who keep telling you. "Have faith, have faith," you can scold them and tell them, "What if I can't have faith. Why don't you say something that would awaken faith in me?" But what can they do? They can only give to you what they have in stock. What would you get if you ask for peace in a shop that only sells anger?
Questioner : Anger. Nothing else.
Dadashri : The Lord has said, "Moksha is only a quarter of a mile away and Devgati is millions of miles away, but you have to have a nimit; someone instrumental in taking you there. Otherwise there is no moksha for you. Only he who has attained moksha can give you moksha." Men abandon their wives and children believing they will be thus free of attachments (maya mamata). No, no matter where one goes, he will become