Aptavani 01

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

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123 chit). There is tremendous power in chit chamatkar.
Questioner : Why do they have bells in the temples?
Dadashri : To focus the chit. When the drums are playing and the bells are ringing, both the mind and the chit remain focused there for a while; however perfect focus or concentration is not possible until one acquires the Self.
Things that distract the chit are all vishays (topics or subjects of enjoyment and attachment). In this world everything that takes place on the outside, is a vishaya. Everything into which the chit wanders is vishaya. Eating and enjoying fritters or ice cream is not a problem but if the chit becomes glued there and keeps reminding you of ice cream and fritters, then that is considered vishaya. Everything outside of Gnan is vishaya.
Whenever the chit grazes or indulges in anything but the Self, seeds for the next birth are sown.
according to the Gnani. It is the basis of the world's existence. Liberation can only be achieved upon the demise of this ego. The foundation of life exists on the belief of 'I am'. 'I am pure Soul' is the purity of the ego and it is the only instrument that leads to liberation. All other forms of ego are instruments for future births.
It is ego to impose the belief of 'I am on the non-Self (achetan - inanimate). It is not considered an ego to believe 'I am the pure Self" (chetan - animate). 'I am', means there is existence. Therefore you have a right to say, 'I am'. But you do not have the awareness of where you are and you do not have the right to identify your existence with the non-Self. You have absolutely no awareness of who you are. Once this realization is acquired, salvation is yours.
No one has the power to do anything and yet the world goes on functioning. It is merely an ego to claim that you are the doer. Until you acquire the realization of the Self, you are just like a wound up toy.
The Most Important Thing To Renounce
God has said that you need not renounce anything in order to achieve liberation. Only the ego and attachment need to be renounced, and when you do this, you will have done it all. T is the ego and 'my' is attachment. I make you renounce both, the 'T' and the 'my', when I make you realize your pure Self (Gnan). As I make you renounce, do you know what I make you acquire? Your Pure Self. Thereafter the question of renunciation-acquisition never arises. Any and all renunciation is for the annihilation of the ego. I take away your ego so then where is its existence? It is placed in the original location of its existence. Its existence is only in one place and that is where I place the ego.
If you resolve to wake up at five in the morning, you can
The chit always takes photographs, sometimes clear and sometimes blurry. Whatever the quality of photographs you take, that is the quality of the film you create and you will have to see that film, you will have to endure it. So take good pictures. Do not waste your film.
Ego
The fourth and the last component of the inner psychic organ is the ego. It is the ego, which finally endorses what the intellect decided in agreement with the mind or the chit. As long as the ego does not endorse the decision, no action will take place. The intellect is the light of the Self that comes through the medium of the ego and so when the intellect makes any decision, the ego as a rule becomes involved and the action will take place.
'I am Chandulal' is the greatest ego and the ultimate ego