Aptavani 01

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

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look at your actions. Your actions are a result of your past life's karma. But what is noted is your dhyan and what it is engaged in while you are doing a samayik or pratikraman (ritual of asking for forgiveness). One may be doing samayik but his dhyan is on the hourglass or he keeps getting irritated with his disciples and then he claims that he did samayik.
An acharya maharaj was sitting before Lord Mahavir in samayik. The acharya was given spiritual knowledge (Gnan) but he did not have the knowledge of vyavasthit. Another enlightened being asked the Lord about the acharya's future life.
The Lord replied, "At this moment he would go to a celestial life form."
A little later someone again asked the Lord about the acharyas' future life and the Lord replied, "He is destined for a life in hell." Fifteen minutes later someone else asked the Lord the same question and the Lord replied that the acharya would attain liberation.
'Lord how can this be when the acharya is so deep in meditation?" they asked the Lord and the Lord said, "you cannot see what I can see and what you see, I regard irrelevant. Although the acharya is seated in mediation, only I can see where his dhyan is. At first his dhyan was such that it would have taken him towards a celestial life. Later his dhyan became diverted and it would have taken him to hell. Eventually his dhyan turned positive and was worthy of acquiring liberation for him. It is dhyan that determines the consequences for the next life. It is the pudgal (the physical body-a complex of intake and output) that creates images but if you identify yourself with those images and become one with them by feeling, this is happening to me', then you are endorsing them. If on the other hand, you remain detached and do not become one with them and simply remain the observer of them, then you are free from the consequences.
When a cloth merchant cheats his clients by stretching the material as he measures it with the dhyan of, how proficient I am in my business, I am earning a lot of money, he does not realize that he is really binding karma for a life in hell. This is raudradhyan. Another merchant cheats his customers in the same way but while doing so, his dhyan is, this is a wrongful act on my part. A disciple of Lord Mahavir would never do such a thing'; if such repentance exists in his dhyan, he will be born in the animal kingdom. The actions of both the merchants are the same but the difference in their dhyan binds different life form.
No one in the era of this time cycle has the knowledge of the Self. If people at least understood dharma (relative worldly religions), then dharma-dhyan would be possible or they would be able to practice it. The religions of today are not based on their original foundation and that is why people do not have dharma-dhyan. They only have aarta-dhyan and raudra-dhyan. People will praise a person who makes a donation of fifty thousand rupees. The donor while making the donation feels that had the mayor not coerced him into making the donation, he would never have done so. Those who give against their will are in raudra-dhyan and will therefore bind a life in hell. While the person who has no money feels that he would make a big donation if he had the money, binds for a higher life form without even giving a dime. The other person, who donated fifty thousand rupees, binds a life in hell.
Acceptable Use Of Intellect People, who use their intellect to trick and deceive others in order to make money, create grave liability for themselves. Every such use of intellect, every trick is severe raudra-dhyan. To use your higher intellect to take advantage of another with lesser intellect is a trick.
Intellect binds one to the worldly life and will never allow