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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Liberation is only attained through Gnan
Moksha cannot be attained by good actions. With good actions, one binds punya, which rewards one with cars, homes and all the other worldly pleasures. If one wants liberation, then one has to follow the Lord's instruction. Moksha is attained through knowledge (Gnankriyabhyam moksha). These pratikraman, samayik etc., are rituals of ignorance (agnan kriya). Moksha cannot be attained through these external activities. Moksha is attained through the actions of Gnan, through gnan-kriya. Gnan-kriya is to remain as a knower-seer and that itself is moksha. To know that which is to be known (gneya) is Gnan kriya and to understand the gneya is darshan kriya.
What causes bondage?
How have you come into bondage? Is it through actions? Is it because of a woman? Do you not have to investigate this? It is only upon investigation that you will be able to find a way to become free. You are bound only because of your ignorance of the Self and so how can you become free by performing external rituals? Can your wife free you? If your wife frees you, can you be freed by your home? And would you be freed by destroying attachment to worldly things? The one bound through ignorance of the Self can only be freed through Gnan, the knowledge of the Self.' As long as, 'my mind' exists you are the owner of the mind (parigrahi) and when you become the knower and seer of the mind then you are not the owner of the mind (aparigrahi). 'We' are aparigrahi in the ocean of parigraha.
Are you bound through attachment and abhorrence (raag and dwesh)? No. You are only bound through ignorance of the Self (agnan). That ignorance is the root cause. The Vedanta says, "Get rid of mud, vikshep and agnan and the Jains say get rid of, raag, dwesh and agnan." Ignorance is common to both and it is the root cause. Raag, dwesh, mud and vikshep are the
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secondary causes. When you get rid of the root cause, the rest of the causes will fall away automatically. When the root cause is destroyed, when ignorance leaves, the seeds for the next life will cease to be sown. As long as there is ignorance, there will be bondage. It is not a problem if one life is wasted but the problem is that it creates bondage for a hundred more lives.
Who likes bondage? This path of evolution (samsaran marg) is like a prison. From the beginning till the end, it is like a prison and when a person becomes aware, 'I am free', then he is freed from that prison. A person can become free when the illusion (mithya darshan) goes away and he attains enlightenment (samyak darshan). Only a Gnani Purush can make one have the awareness, 'I am free. The Gnani Purush never becomes one with his body.
All these instruments have bound you; electricity, elevators etc., all the instruments of comfort that were created have now imprisoned you. You have become dependent on them. Each person should have his circumstances and instrument such that they promote his independence. A human being should not become a slave to his comforts. These instruments which have made one become so dependant on them, will decrease and there is a need for that.
If people who desire freedom do not find the right path, then the very instruments that were meant to give them freedom will become binding. Instruments people seek out for freedom and moksha end up binding them because they are not the right instruments (sat sadhan). A right instrument is the one who is established in sat (the eternal), and such a person is the Gnani Purush. All other instruments (sadhans) will continue artadhyan and raudradhyan, and that is bondage.
Even the animals do not like this bondage. Today when I was coming here, I saw some men who were trying to put a bull into a truck. The bull obviously understood it was being taken