Aptavani Shreni 04

SR No.: 030034
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Aradhana Trust
Publication Year: 2013
Total Pages: 480
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 1 MB

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Questioner: To digest my food, I have to move about, and walk around.
Dadashri: Those actions are simply instrumental (nimit) for digestion. And when you are asleep, your breathing continues well, so that you wake up feeling refreshed. Although you are sleeping, the right amounts of digestive juices, bile, etc., are being released for digestion. Who goes in there to regulate them? Just as everything runs automatically within the body, everything on the outside also runs automatically. All you have to do is to make a naimitik (instrumental; as one of the evidences) effort. As it is, everything is arranged according to scientific circumstantial evidence (vyavasthit).
From birth, one brings all of one's suffering, accolades and insults, repute, ill-repute, etc., but it is the ego that is the problem. A person believes himself to be the 'doer' of any activity that is being done. Is there anything in all of this that has to be done? One only has to know the Atma (the Self) in all this. When you eat something, the internal activities take place naturally. In the same way, that which occurs externally, also happens naturally. How much food, how many steps, how to walk, how much to walk, all happens by itself. When a person does the egoism; he is simply being too smart when he believes that he is doing the purusharth. Without first becoming the Purush (the Self), the purusharth cannot be done. The Gnani Purush must first instill in you, the awareness of the alakh (the unknowable; imperceptible): the Self.
In Mumbai, people's purusharth is their determination to do this and to do that! Mumbai is still the same. So many businessmen have died there as a result of their arrogance. As long as Mumbai prospers, no one can do anything. No one has the power to stop Mumbai's prosperity; nor to prevent its destruction. While you people have set out to do the purusharth!! You are nothing but a small fish in a big pond.