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 experience the bliss of freedom as you enjoy worldly comforts. In addition, there is no artadhyan or raudradhyan. Here you will experience the samayik of Pooniya shravak! (Pooniya shravak, so named after his profession of making pooniyo, i.e. wicks for oil lamps. He was a devotee of Lord Mahavir. As he worked, his mind would be on his work but his chit solely on the Lord. So perfect was his contemplation of the Lord that it came to be the epitome of all samayiks. His samayik had such a power that one could prevent a birth in hell).
Otherwise, people's contemplation is constantly in artadhyan and raudradhyan but regardless of what they do, the amount of money they will make will only be the amount that is coming to them (due to their punya). The Lord has said that money will come to you if you do dharmadhyan but it will go away with artadhyan and raudradhyan. Nevertheless, people resort to the latter two, in order to make more money. A person can only make money if he has accumulated punya in his karmic account from the past. You will attain everything through the grace of this 'Dada' Why? It is because His grace breaks all obstacles in life. Money is always there but it does not come to you because you have created obstacles in your past life. These obstacles will be broken through our grace and then you will attain everything. Dada's grace will destroy all obstacles that cause diseases of the mind, body and speech, along with all other pain-inflicting obstacles. All suffering that can be experienced in the world is destroyed here.
A man may be very wealthy as an owner of two mills, but his alcoholic son will beat him and shout abuses at him every day. He can neither bear his pain nor can he say anything out in the open. This is the kind of suffering people have to suffer. This worldly life is nothing but a place of pain and suffering. Even the legendary emperors abandoned their entire empire and ran away, and yet here people do not feel like leaving even their little huts! What kind of attachment is this that keeps people bound?
Everyone is being 'roasted from all directions in the 'heat' of their own physical pain, mental anguish and suffering imposed at the hands of others. Whether it is a wealthy businessman, an ordinary man, an ascetic, a man with two wives or a celibate; they are all suffering. And Akram Vignan is the only soothing and cooling solace that has come about. Otherwise, it has become a challenge for everyone to even know how to live life. This is the only place where peace has begun to take hold.
Questioner: Why does money have so much importance nowadays?
Dadashri : When a person is trapped and cannot see things clearly, cannot find ease in life through any other way, he believes that money will give him happiness. He is convinced of this and thinks money will get him everything he wants. He is not to be blamed. To start with he has created karmas, which give this very effect. In the entire city of Bombay, there are probably only ten people or so who have money that will bind punya but all others have money that will bind paap karma and these are people who have incessant worries.
'We' too have a profession in this worldly life. In this business of worldly interactions 'we' too pay income tax. Despite being in the disreputable business of building contracts and constructions 'we' remain vitarag (unattached) in it. How are 'we' able to remain vitarag in this worldly life? Through "Gnan'. People are suffering and are miserable because of their ignorance. People may have money because of their punyas, but it is paap-anubandhi-punya money, meaning it will bind demerit karma even as one spends the money he earned through merit karma from past life. It will lead one to lower life forms. Punya anubandhi-punya money will bind merit karmas as it is being spent in this life and will take one higher. Money can do both: it can either take one higher or it can take him lower.
Nowadays human beings are no longer human. Just look