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namely: hearing-ears, touch-skin, sight-eyes, taste-tongue, and smell-nose), karmendriya (five organs of action) and the mind (mun), as the eleventh 'sense', are deprived of 'food'. If the ‘fast' is done with the right applied awareness (upayog), the mind, body and speech will be purified! Aayambil, eating food made from only one variety of grain, should be done with discretion and limitation, by the person that practices it. It is useful for a person to fast, if he suffers from indigestion, until his indigestion is cured.
As a matter of fact, the Self is such, that it cannot be found through the practice of penance, chanting or fasting.
There is no penance like unodari (eating less food than what one has appetite for). Dadashri did not fast even once in his life. Yes, but for his entire life, he did unodari.
What is the result of fasting if after a hundred thousand fasts, the kashays (anger, pride, deceit and greed) are not gone? Tremendous loss is incurred if one fasts and does kashays at the same time. If food is not available till two o'clock, tell the mind, 'Today is the day for fasting' and remain in equanimity. There is no other fast like it!
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Worldly Religions If there is even the subtlest desire in religion, then that religion is not religion; it is a business!
He who earns in the ‘relative': loses in the “real”. There should be no robbery in religion. The perils are beyond imagination.
Without first understanding the siddhants (irrefutable principles that accomplish the ultimate), that are to be undertaken with devotion and understanding, how can one do spiritual practice (sadhana; spiritual endeavor; undergoing
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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 |