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Aptavani-5
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Aptavani-5
Questioner: They do not have to do anything!
Dadashri: Siddhas are beings who have absolute liberation. They cannot be here. No Siddha can be here in an embodied form. When they talk about siddha here, it is all in a worldly language.
Questioner: But is there not a world of Siddhas?
Questioner: Some people do jaap, penance, rosary, etc.; can they still be possessed by a pretyoni?
Dadashri: There is no such rule. If you have some past account of karmas, if you have troubled someone and if that soul becomes a pret, then it will not leave you alone without avenging.
Questioner: Can reciting the Hanuman Chalisa or the Gayatri Mantra have any effect on it?
Dadashri: Yes, there is some benefit from that. It (the pretyoni) will stay away. Even if this Navkar Mantra is done properly with awareness, it will go away.
Questioner: Can you show us Devlokas (the celestial abode)?
Dadashri: What good does that do? Why don't you do something for your own Self? There is no joy or benefit in seeing that. You have been wandering for countless lives. You have been there and you have come here too. What is there to see? The Devas have endless sensual pleasures. They are tired of that too and they are waiting to become free from that body. How can they be free of that body when their life span is hundreds of thousand of years? Would you feel content and comfortable if you were fed the kind of elaborate meals they serve at weddings, for a whole month? Would you not run away from there? That is how the Devas feel; they do not like it there.
Absolutely Liberated Souls
Dadashri: There is a Siddha Kshetra, a location where all Siddha Lords reside. They can never be here.
Questioner: Are Siddhas not in a body form?
Dadashri: They are not embodied. They are considered Parmatmas (the absolute Souls) and these siddhas are humans. They will come after you or put a curse on you if you insult them.
Questioner: The Siddhas that we talk about are in the form of a light, are they not?
Dadashri: Yes. They are in the form of light (prakash). There is only one word for them; it is 'keval' (absolute). They are in the form of absolute vision, absolute knowledge, infinite bliss, absolute light (keval darshan, kevalgnan, anant sukh, param jyoti swaroop). They are Self-illuminating as well as universe-illuminating.
Darshan of Shuddhatma Questioner: How can one see the pure Self (Shuddhatma)?
Dadashri: What does it mean to see the Shuddhatma? If once I show you a diamond in a box and then I close the lid; that does not mean that the diamond is gone. You will be aware of its presence in the box. That is because you have seen it and your intellect has accepted it. When I give you Gnan your mind, your intellect, your chit, and your ego have accepted that there
Questioner: Can a Siddha Purush, who may be in the vicinity of a specific circle of influence over nearby planets, guide people there?
Dadashri: Siddhas do not guide anyone. Those who guide others are worldly people (sansari). In the worldly language they are considered sansari-siddha.