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Svacchand is to act only according to your own will. If svacchand is halted, liberation is at hand. You have practiced religion and meditation as per your own intellectual understanding and it has and it will be all in vain. To carry on wantonly selfguided by your own whim in spiritual matters is to become bound to the worldly life for infinite life cycles. In fact it is better that you do not come to this level of svachhand. It is better that you remain where you are. If you do svachhand after meeting The Gnani, you will fall into endless cycles of births and deaths.
You can liberate yourself if you get rid of your svacchand, however svachhand is not something that you will be able to get rid of on your own. You will have to recognize svacchand. Whatever you do is nothing but svacchand. Krupalu Dev (Shrimad Rajchandra) has said : "Whatever is done without awareness of the living embodiment of Omniscience, is all binding. This is what I utter from the core of my heart."
gone, your work will be done.
This world is such that you should not be doing anything driven by your self-guided whims and intellect. Until you meet the Gnani, follow the advice of a person whose spiritual level is even five percent higher than yours. This is so critical that the Gnani Purush Shrimad Rajchandra has said :
"Do not seek anything except a Self-realized One.
Having found Him, surrender all your feelings and intents at His lotus feet.
And after having done so, remain thus.
If then you do not feel liberated, come to me for liberation."
Whatever you do and no matter how little, it is bondage and that is verily svacchand itself. Whether you go to a religious discourse or become a monk, whether you practice penance or renunciation and read scriptures, it is all svacchand. Before you do anything, you should consult the Gnani Purush, otherwise it is considered svacchand and it will cause bondage.
At the moment, all religions are practiced with svachhand. For example, you have been practicing worship and devotion (to some specific guru) for so many years, and yet if someone were to even utter the name Chandubhai, you immediately respond. Not only that but if someone says something about you, you respond with raag (attachment) or dwesh (abhorrence). Of what use is all your devotion to a guru, when you have not rid yourself of your raag-dwesh? Nevertheless, if your devotion is for liberation, then you will meet a Gnani sooner or later.
You cannot afford to do anything with svachhand. If you unknowingly put your hand on a fire, will you not burn your hand? Even when you act unknowingly, you will have to suffer the results of your actions. Therefore you should first find out who you are and what this life is all about.
After the fault of sva-chhand leaves, the chhand of Dada will take over, meaning Dada will lead you in all matters until final liberation. With the removal of svacchand there is SelfRealization. What is a person with minimal svachaand like?
To believe, 'I am Chandubhai', is svacchand. Once this belief is removed, there is no need for penance, renunciation or scriptures. It is because this svacchand has been kept alive that you have not achieved liberation. Once you get rid of it, you can achieve liberation within an hour.
Svacchand means blind passion. Believing your relative self to be your real Self is itself svacchand. And this svachaand will not let you achieve liberation for endless births. Once it is
