Aptavani 01

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

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therefore he is using up his demerit fruits while the other uses up his merit karma in escaping. In this way everyone uses up their merit and demerit karma according to what they have brought in the receptacle of their intellect. If one comes into this world with the intellect for becoming extremely wealthy, then his merit karma will be used up for that. Another person has brought the same kind of intellect in his receptacle. but for him instead of fruits of merit karma he is faced with the fruit of his demerit karma and so he never sees any money. So precise are people's accounts, life after life, that no one has any power over them. And these fools believe, 'I earned ten million rupees.' Alas! He has used up the fruits of his merit karma and on the wrong path at that. Instead change what you fill in the receptacle of your intellect. Your intent should be only for true religion and not for transient material wealth of cars, bungalows, radios etc. Keep the receptacle of your intellect purely for the purpose of attaining the knowledge of the Self. Whatever you have right now, let it be. From now on fill the receptacle of your intellect with that which will liberate you.
My receptacle of intellect that I have brought forth for this life is only for that which is for the real religion and for the salvation of the world. I have not spent any of my merit karma anywhere else - not for money, house, wife, children or anything else.
Everyone who has come to me and taken this Gnan, have been able to do so because they had allocated two to five percent of their merit karma for liberation. Because I had allocated a hundred percent for true religion, I have been given a certificate of 'No objection' as far as religion is concerned.
Lord Ganpati - The Deity of Intellect
Lord Ganpati is the chief deity of all the deities representing wisdom and intellect. He possesses the sole right to write
scriptures. There is not a single place where his intellect does not shine. There is no weakness in his intellect. That is exactly why he is placed first and foremost among all deities. Even in rituals of prayer worship, Lord Ganpati is placed first. The intellect becomes humble and free from illusion by worshipping him. If a person encounters a few difficulties in a month but constantly lives in fear everyday, it is the result of wrong intellect. Worship of Lord Ganpati converts wrong intellect to right. That is why Lord Ganpati is always placed first in any worship, but because people perform their rituals without the correct understanding behind it, their worship does not prove fruitful. If worship is performed with the correct understanding, it will bring good results.
Ganpati has successfully passed through all the intricacies and perplexities of the intellect. By worshipping him with an understanding, the illusion of the intellect disappears and the right intellect is attained. Experience Through Intellect : Experience Through
Gnan If a person who has never before tasted cardamom flavored ice-cream were given the ice-cream in the dark, he will begin to wonder whether the ice-cream is naturally cold; whether the nature of milk and all the ingredients in the ice cream, such is sugar, cream and cardamom, is also cold. Intellect has the ability to discern and analyze the inherent qualities of the ingredients in the ice cream and why it is so cold. One is able to know and experience all this through his intellect. If the intellect, the indirect light of the Self, can be so useful in mundane worldly matters, imagine how powerful the direct light of the Self can be.
I tell everyone to put their intellect (buddhi) on pension after they acquire the light of the Self. The whole world needs