Aptavani Shreni 08

SR No.: 030038
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Aradhana Trust
Total Pages: 436
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 1 MB

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Aptavani-8
Dadashri: Who told you that?
Questioner: I have read that every Atma merges into the Absolute (Brahma). When the Atma attains its absolute state, it merges into the Absolute (Brahma).
Dadashri: So then what is there left for you? Questioner: We become one with the Absolute (Brahma)! Dadashri: But what is there in it for you?
Questioner: I want to be rid of the state of I and my, that pertains to the ego (apnapanu), and attain the state of God (Ishwarpanu).
Dadashri: Yes, but how will you benefit from becoming an integrated part of God (Ishwar)? Instead of that, you do have your own independent identity, and right now you get your sweets and fritters (laadva and bhajiya) and everything. Is it not just a matter of putting up with a few insults?! What other problems do you have? Besides, what do these people say over here? They say, “We only want to go to moksha (final liberation), if there is more happiness (sukh) over there than there is over here, but if we have to merge over there, we do not want to go!'
If Light Merges With Light, What Is Left of
You?
Questioner: But those who say, 'I am the Absolute' (Aham Brahmasmi), talk about merging into the light, saying that moksha means merging into the light, are they both the same thing?
Dadashri: What they consider as final liberation (moksha); that final liberation means merging into the light, is not the proper moksha. The moksha that those who no longer have attachment and abhorrence (the Vitarag), have spoken of: that there in the realm of the Liberated Souls (Siddha gati), one experiences