Aptavani 01

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

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I am a Gnani but this body of mine is a top. These 'tops' function because of respiration. The process of breathing is like winding the string around the top, and as the breathing continues, the top begins to spin. It may even lean over on one side as it spins and it may seem like it will topple over, but then it comes back up again and continues to spin. That is how life is.
Every leaf and branch of a Neem tree is bitter. It is bitter through and through. What effort (purusharth) does the tree have to make for that? Everything that is manifest in the tree has come from its seed. Similarly human beings act according to their innate nature (prakruti) but merely claim, 'I am the doer and thus exercise their ego. What exactly does one do in all this?
What people refer to, as purusharth in this world is really a language of illusion. Things occur and materialize because of your past karmas coming into effect, and to claim 'I did it is subtle pride (gaarva) and egoism. Real purusharth, true purusharth begins only after one becomes the Purush (Self-realised). It is only then your belief of 'I am the doer' is destroyed. It is the state of absolute 'non-doer ship'. All that is relative is prakruti and the Purush (the Self) is real. What then is real purusharth? Real purusharth is when You (the Self) remain the knower (gnata) and the seer (drashta) when someone is cutting your hand. Gnankriya (knowing) and darshankriya (seeing) are the only activities of the Self. The Soul does not have any other activities. True purusharth is when the Self remains in the state of the knower and the seer.
Saint Kabir's wife was expecting a baby. The mother's milk was ready even before the baby was born. The milk began to flow after the birth of the baby. On seeing this Kabir sang : 'Destiny (prarabdha) comes first, then forms the body Kabir, it is a wonder, that the mind does not accept.'
Non-contradictory Dependence You cannot just sit around claiming that everything is destined (prarabdha). If you do, then you become completely idle. The mind will become restless with such a dependency. If this dependency on destiny is correct, then you should not have any worries, but in fact you are a factory of worries. Therefore even that dependency is lame. It is not real. It is not scientific. People in India are miserable and suffer because they have been given the support of such a dependency. That is why their progress is obstructed. My search, over a million life times, has brought me to the scientific fact that both destiny and independent effort are lame supports. The only real support is vyavasthit.
What is vyavasthit? It is that which happens only through scientific circumstantial evidences. That is called vyavasthit. The knowledge of vyavasthit renders total satisfaction in every situation. I will give you a simple example. If this glass in your hand begins to slip out of your hand and you make every effort to save it and it still breaks. Who broke the glass? You had no
ion of breaking it on the contrary you made all efforts to save it. Then, did the glass wish to break? No, that cannot be so. No one else was present to break it either, so who broke it? It was Vyavasthit: vyavasthit works under exact principles of natural laws. It is not haphazard. If the glass were not to break according to the principles of vyavasthit, then how would these glass factories remain in business? Vyavasthit has to look at your interest and also the interest of the glass factory and the livelihood of thousands of its workers. Therefore the glass will break according to this law and no one will be able to prevent it from breaking. So many foolish people get agitated and restless when things break. If a servant is serving tea to some guests and breaks a cup, his master becomes furious from within. All he can think of is how he will slap the servant a few times as soon as his guests leave. And some people even do this. But