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place in your heart. Otherwise, who has developed the ability to examine and establish the guru?
The one who helps you to walk the auspicious path in this world is the guru, and the one who gives direct moksha is the Gnani!
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The Purpose of Penance How much need is there for chanting of mantra (japa), penance (tapa) or for vrat (taking religious vows)? Do you use all the medicines from the pharmacy? Only those that are prescribed for you are the right ones. However, there is no reason to say that the other medicines are wrong. There are other ‘patients' for whom chanting mantra and penance, etc., result in binding auspicious karma.
The current time is not one for doing penance through insistence or even deliberately. This is the time to do penance that comes naturally before you, and to settle it with equanimity. For those people who, because of the lack of the effect of merit karma, when there is a shortage of grain, kerosene, sugar and milk, they distress over it day and night: what more penance can there be?
For the Gnani, renunciation or acquisition is not possible. He will settle with whatever circumstance that may come before him! The Lord did not say that the renunciation of material things is renunciation. He has said that the renunciation of intense attraction (murchha) for material things is renunciation. God will only see the root cause of the problem!
The one who can do the agiyaras (observance of fasting done on the eleventh day of the lunar cycle), in accordance with the revered Dadashri's instructions and approval, will definitely attain salvation. True agiyaras is when the gnanendriya (Five senses; Sense organs of knowledge
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| SR No. | 030034 |
| Book Title | Aptavani Shreni 04 |
| 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 |