Aptavani 01

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

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incessantly will continue to plague you. You will not have desires for everything. Desire is the juice of worldly life. Whichever juice one likes the most, he will continue to thirst for it. What do people desire? They desire that which he or she have brought with them from their past life in their vessel of intellect (buddhi no ashai). They will continue to receive the happiness they have brought in the vessel of their intellect at the expense of their merit karma.
You may use both the edges of the sword of this world, but use only one side of the blade of the pure Soul. What would happen if you use the side of the blade of 'I am impure Soul', instead of 'I am pure Soul"? It would destroy everything. The pure Self has no desires but the interim Self (antaratma) does; it desires to acquire the Absolute State of pure Soul. When it achieves that absolute state, there will be no more desires left because the state of vitaragta - a state void of any attachment - will have been attained. There is no desire in the One who is absolute vitarag. My desire is a discharging desire whereas you mahatmas have a desire for the attainment of the absolute state. My desire is a discharge because I have already attained the Absolute State.
that fall in that sequence will come in your hand. The number two will follow one; three will follow two. There will a link there. But if there is a fruition of non-sequence (akram), the numbers you pick up will not be in sequence. You will pick up seven, then fifty-two etc. There will no link here.
I met a man from Ratnagiri once who told me that he finds gold wherever he searches. I cautioned him that it was the result of his link of merit karma and that the link will break in a short time. When it does, I told him to remember me. And that is exactly what happened. He incurred such heavy losses in his business that both he and his wife tried to commit suicide. The circumstances were such that they both survived and they remembered what I had told them. Kram (sequence of events) and akram (non sequential events) come and go. Such is the worldly life. Desire is a consequence of past account and during chintvan one is creating plans; one becomes engrossed in it and creates new causes. Desire is an effect whereas chintvan is a cause; it is a charging point. The writers of scriptures have said that desires come on their own; one does not need to create them.
Even when the sun is setting it can appear to look like a rising sun. Your desires are setting' desires; so do not worry about them. I have told my mahatmas that their desires are barren; they will not bear any seeds and that is why your desires are setting. Other people have both rising and setting desires. Rising desire is cause desire and setting desire is effect desire.
In this current phase of the Kaliyug time cycle, people have desires for very insignificant things; they do not have the desire to enjoy everything. They waste away their whole life looking for something very trivial.
Alas I have even seen affluent businessmen sitting in Lord Mahavir's assembly, who in order not miss the Lord's discourse,
Questioner : What is the difference between desire and chintvan (persistent focused meditation on a topic)?
Dadashri : Chintvan creates future (karmic) accounts and desires divulge what you have brought from your past life. Desire is a discharge and chintvan is charge. What you desire and what you do not, are both contents of your karmic stock from your past life. When the link of your merit karma comes into effect, your desire is fulfilled. When this sequence is broken, undesired things will come before you. For example, if you throw some numbers in the dark and then you pick them up in the dark, if there is a fruition of a sequence, only the numbers