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Dadashri: You cannot say that! You cannot say, 'The body hit him”. That is a liability. If you say, 'It was the body that hit him: the Atma did not hit him’, and try and justify yourself in that way, then we can say, 'Hold on a second, let me poke your body with a needle. Therefore you cannot say “it was the body that did the slapping.
It is like this - hitting someone is a kind of discharge intent (bhaav). After this Gnan, one himself stops charging (of karma), so all that remains after that is just discharge (of karma). One is no longer responsible for that.
“Karta meetey, toh chhootey karma” “One becomes free from the bondage of karma when the doer is gone."
For him, the doership is gone.
Questioner: The intent (bhaav) of 'I am doing... should go away.
Dadashri: That is all. If at least that much intent (bhaav) goes away, then your work is accomplished. Pure: Impure - From Which Perspective?
If a man says that he is liberated, without having attained Atmagnan (Self-realization), it would not be true; that is what people think Atmagnan is. They recite two or four sentences like, 'I have infinite Knowledge, I have infinite Vision’; they take two to five such qualities (gunas) and go around saying them out loud. There is no Atmagnan (knowledge of the Self) in that. The 'I am Shuddhatma’ that is found written in books is trying to say, 'You are not all this, you are That’. It seeks to change one's vision (drashti); it is telling you to adopt that intent (bhaav). But you cannot say that you have attained the Atma in that way.
One can be said to have attained the Self, when he
| SR No. | 030038 |
| Book Title | Aptavani Shreni 08 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Dada Bhagwan |
| Publisher | Dada Bhagwan Aradhana Trust |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 436 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 1 MB |