Aptavani 01

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

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tubers are to be seen and known. You are separate and the tubers of your mind are separate. The fact that your mind is separate from you is very evident because when you want to fall asleep the mind will start all kinds of pranks and will not let you sleep. You may have all the comforts for sleeping and yet it will not let you sleep.
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Foreigners come to India in search of peace of mind, but is it that easy to find? The Jains too go for darshan of Shantinath Bhagwan for shanti (peace) but Bhagwan says that while you are doing my darshan, you are also doing darshan of your shoes and your business. So how will you acquire peace?
Evil Effects Of Mind
In this age there is no harmony between a person's mind, speech and actions. For example, Chandu and his friend go shopping. Chandu's mind (what he thinks), speech and actions are all different. In his mind he feels he wants to pay less money for his purchases but he claims and his behaviour indicates that he want to buy at a fair price. Whereas his friend maintains in his mind, speech and behaviour that he will buy things at a fair price. Chandu's friend will attain a world of a higher life form, whereas Chandu is destined for a world of a lower life form. Why did he keep the mind separate from his speech and acts? This is the very evil effect of the mind, which binds him. This discord between the mind, speech and behaviour does not escape God. This age of kaliyug means evil effects and these evil effects are inherent when one is born, some to a lesser and some to a higher degree
The Nature Of The Mind
What is the nature of the mind? If you show your mind someone who is unhappier than you, then it will be happy and will make you feel that you have more happiness. If you are living in a two-room apartment, your mind may become restless
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for a bigger apartment. That is when you should ask your mind how people manage to live in just one room? Some don't even have a chair to sit on, how do they manage? Then your mind will become happy again. Sometimes when your mind becomes idle it will ask for nourishment, so you should nurture your mind in this way. This approach is for the one whose mind has become weak. However with the Gnan that I give you, you will not need anything else. The knowledge of vyavasthit is such that the mind will not revolt and complain. Wherever the mind goes it will always be at peace. Where the mind remains at peace in any situation, there in lies true Gnan - that is true religion.
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The nature of the mind is very strange. It is such that it will steal five dollars from someone and give away two dollars to someone else. The mind is very unpredictable; in no time it can create dislike for a person you have always revered. So be cautious, do not act according to the dictates of your mind. What has Saint Kabir said?
"The person who is dictated by his mind loses everything."
The mind is very elusive; it will never let you become aware that it has deceived you. If the powers of the self enter the mind and become one with the mind, it can sabotage you.
It is like jumping into a lake then crying out for help. In this day and age, people's minds have become fractured. Such minds can drive a person to jump into the ocean.
The mind is like a dancer. People say that it is the king who makes the dancer dance. I say this is not so. It is the dancer who makes the king dance. Similarly, your mind makes you dance.
Two friends are out walking and one of them gets a whiff of some meat cooking in a restaurant close by. Within him his tuber for eating meat starts to erupt and tickles him from within. He gets an intense desire to eat meat. He makes an excuse and