Aptavani 01

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

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seed. Vyavasthit shakti brings together the appropriate environment and circumstances and the resulting banyan tree is due to it's own inherent prakrut attributes.
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The knowledge of prakruti is amazing and immense! It is easy to cross a river but you cannot cross the river of the prakruti.
Renunciation
There are three forms of renunciation:
1) Renunciation precipitated through suffering : People renounce their worldly life because of the suffering they have to endure in it. A person will abandon his worldly life and commitments at the expense of his family. He thinks that his worldly problems can be solved by renunciation and that the only suffering he will have to endure is to go around bare feet begging for his meals, which he is willing to endure. What are the consequences of such a renunciation? He will have to wander for countless lifetimes.
2) Renunciation for the reward of worldly gains: A person who renounces his worldly life and commitments in the greed of gaining disciples, respect, fame, praise and worship. He too will have to wander for countless lives.
3) Renunciation for acquiring Gnan: This is the true form of renunciation. Rare is the person who will take renunciation for the purpose of knowing the Self. But it is very difficult to acquire this Gnan.
This knowledge can only be acquired through a Gnani, after which true renunciation will begin through the light of that knowledge.
Focused Awareness Of The self And Self
There are four types of upayog (focusing of the awareness
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of the self or the Self):
Ashuddha upayog: (Impure use). An example of this would be if a person, without any reason or cause hunts and kills a deer and then takes pleasure in it and proudly boasts about his killing. Killing purely for pleasure, without any motive or reason, is impure use of the soul. People who gloat and derive pleasure from hurting others or causing destruction to other people's property, people with sadistic tendencies are all third-class citizens and are headed for a life in hell.
Ashoobh upayog: (Inauspicious use) A man is forced to kill a deer because there is nothing to eat at home. His wife and children are starving and he has no choice. From within, however, he is tormented by the killing and repents immensely for his actions. This is inauspicious use of the soul. The outward action for both impure and inauspicious use of the soul may be the same. But the difference between the two is that in the former the person takes pleasure in his actions and in the latter he has tears of remorse. All beings that use their energies of the soul in an impure way are considered second-class citizens and are headed for a birth in the animal kingdom.
Shoobha upayog: (auspicious use) Even when everyone at home is starving he feels he does not want to kill anything to satisfy their hunger. This is auspicious awareness of the self. Wishing well for others, doing well to others and being benevolent towards others, keeping the heart truly moral are all good use of the soul. Very rarely does a person remain solely in auspicious use. Generally people vacillate between auspicious and inauspicious awareness of the self. Nevertheless these people are considered 'first-class passengers' and will be born as humans again. Those with purely auspicious awareness are considered as 'luxury class passengers' and will be born as celestial beings.
Shuddha upayog (Pure awareness of the Self). A