Aptavani 01

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

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telling you that there is no difference between you, all these others and myself. The master still insisted that he could see a lot of difference and that he could not understand and accept how the Lord could consider a master, a mayor, a chaste woman, a prostitute, a pickpocket and a donkey and Himself as equal. The Lord went on 'Look revered master! The inner content (the Soul) within you, the mayor, the chaste woman, the prostitute, the pickpocket, the donkey and me is the same. The only difference is that in me the Self is fully manifest and in you, it is veiled. I can see in my absolute knowledge that from all of you, the donkey has the least number of lives left before liberation. Because dear master, the mental load that you carry from having studied voluminous scriptures will take many lifetimes to unload whereas the donkey will meet a Gnani in his next life and be liberated!
Intoxicated Ego And Liberation
"Chandulal'. He has an ingrained belief that he is also the body and that is why the poor fellow keeps gawking in the mirror. But this body does not belong to you; it has taken possession over you. It is really an unnecessary baggage that has latched on to you. If a boy is loafing around with a girl, his father will ask him. 'How come you found this baggage?' The son will retort 'what do you mean by baggage? She is not a baggage? What do you know about such matters?' It is only after some time when his girlfriend quarrels with him and jilts him for another boy that he will realize what his father meant by baggage. In the same way this body has latched on to you. Once you know that You are not the body, it's possession and attachment over you will be broken. Such baggage can never be without betrayal. What kind of entrapment does this mind, speech and body have over us and what do we mean by entrapment? It means that you cannot free yourself from it, even when you want to. Entrapment is the same thing as a baggage. A person will look for a way out when he realizes that he is trapped by such a baggage, but what if he happens to love it? Then it will cling to him even more and trap him even deeper. Such entrapments are based on attachment and abhorrence (raag-dwesh). I free you from your attachment and abhorrence and then this entrapment (of the body) will gradually disappear. Do you think you need to get rid of this baggage by hitting it or punishing it? No, you have to get rid of it through vitaragata (non-attachment) and ahimsa (non-violence). Your mind, speech and body are an entrapment. If you become the knower and observer of this baggage, it will loosen its grip and fall away on its own.
Aspire For Only Liberation Insist only on liberation. In all other circumstances and situations maintain complacency. Nothing is poisonous, only your insistence is poison. I am stating this very candidly: Any path that requires you to make any effort is a worldly path and will
Mental burden is really intoxication of ego. The lesser the intoxication, the sooner liberation will come.
Those who have intoxicated ego will never attain liberation. The attitude and feeling of 'I know something is heavy intoxication, it is present even in sleep. Only those who do not have such intoxication attain liberation. Do people read scriptures and assimilate them for the purpose of acquiring liberation or is it to increase their wandering for lifetimes to come, by increasing their intoxication? Intoxication of a drunkard is easily removed by splashing water over him but the intoxication one has of having read the scriptures and I know something', can never be destroyed.
Possesed By The Mind, Speech and Body
A person keeps looking in the mirror when he has a tiny pimple on his face because he believes that he is indeed