Aptavani 01

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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self-effort. They keep talking about the same thing over and over again and yet make no progress. Some rely on destiny alone whereas others rely on self-effort alone. But support of both concepts are crippled and lame. What do all the factory workers, who toil from morning to night, get for their efforts? Do they get anything more than a meal on their table? What would happen if the fatalists were to sit idle?
When people make a lot of money they take credit for it and claim it was through their effort and hard work. If they incur a loss they will say "What can I do?' and blame their horoscopes or bad luck or the God above. The fools! They take credit for good things and claim to be helpless when things go wrong. And sometimes they even blame God for their failures. Their horoscopes or the stars do not hinder them in any way. What hinders them is their own internal negative 'stars' - their obstinacy, excessive obstinacy, insistence on being right, insistence on relative truth etc. I am without obstinacy. Where there is obstinacy there is conflict, so when I am not obstinate about anything how can there be any conflict? When everything runs systematically, success is the end result but when there is a break in the systematic process, people blame God. The effort to convert that, which is disorderly, into order, is defined by the world as independent effort (purusharth). If a person were truly capable of doing purusharth, he would never incur a loss. Purusharth knows no failures. It is a contradiction. How can you do purusharth, when you, yourself have not become a Purush (Self-realized)? True purusharth is the one that is done through the extraordinary effort of the self. People are foolish to believe that they are the doers when in fact it is their prakruti (the formed complex of thoughts, speech and acts which is a result of past life karma) that makes them do things.
Lord Krishna has said, "Odhavji, what can the weak attain?' Even the most renowned Jain spiritual master,
Ananddhanji Maharaj, admits his weaknesses. One can only be called a Purush when he has conquered his anger, pride, attachment and greed. But here the weaknesses of anger, pride, attachment and greed have conquered man. He is weak.
I have become a Purush. I am with my independent effort (purushartha) and its extraordinary energy. Astrology and purusharth are contradictory. Astrology has some scientific foundation. However, what people believe to be purusharth is an illusion. People foolishly go running to an astrologer when they suffer a loss. Why not do your purusharth instead? This false purusharth is what sows the seeds of karma for your next life.
The Alembic chemical factory here employs so many workers. It takes all these workers to manufacture just a few chemicals. The human body is made up of hundreds of such chemical factories and yet it runs on its own. When you go to sleep after a meal, do you ever check to see how much and how many digestive juices and enzymes are released for digestion? How attentive are you in these matters? By the morning when you wake up, the body has already assimilated the food you ate. All the nutrients are absorbed in the blood; the waste products are transported for excretion and everything is to be found in its right place. Did you have to do anything in running this process? So don't you think that just as the inner mechanism works naturally, the outer mechanism does too? Why do you believe that you are the doer? Everything will continue to run on it's own. During sleep, the body is in its natural state. It is you who is not in your natural state. You claim that you are breathing. You say that you breathe shallow or deep. Who does the breathing when you are in deep sleep? Respiration that takes place at night is a natural process and that is what aids the digestion.
Every human being is nothing but a top (toy that spins).