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parmanus. This attraction between parmanus is referred to as raag or attachment; and the repulsion of these parmanus is called dwesh or abhorrence.
(Atma) and yet people say, "My atma (soul) is raagi-dweshi (does attachment and abhorrence)." It appears that way, but really the subatomic particles (parmanus) within the body get pulled like a magnet when they come across compatible parmanus. This happens because of the presence of the electrical body within this body. Then one says, "I am attracted. Attachment (raag) is happening to me." In all this, the Self is not attracted whatsoever. It is not the property (guna) of the Self to become attached. It is vitarag (without any attachment). Vitarag Lords say that this dancing body complex (putadu) needs to be 'seen' and 'known'as to how it dances, where it is attracted or where it is repelled. This is the pure and untainted doctrine of the vitarag Lords and that verily is what we are giving you.
Liberation will not occur without knowing and being the Self. A group with the same opinion and agenda (gachha) is an open fire pit and so is an opinion that does not accept all opinions (mat). Can one afford to jump in such a fire pit? It is poisonous. The only opinion worth having is the one for the Soul. But instead people are consumed with opinions of, this is ours' and that is yours, fours' and 'yours. The Lord is completely impartial.
Attachment and abhorrence is really happening to the tendencies (vrutti) that arise within the worldly soul (1 am Chandulal). This is in the form of attraction or repulsion. Repulsion (vikarshan, dwesh) results when attraction (akarshan, raag) is obstructed.
Questioner : Do attachment and abhorrence exist because of similarities and differences?
Dadashri : It is like a magnet which has poles which attract and repel. Attachment (raag) is a very different thing altogether. The attraction people feel towards each other, is what they call attachment (raag), but in the language of the vitarag Lords, it is nothing but mere attraction between matching
From the moment one creates separation of, this is mine and this is someone else's', attachment and abhorrence arise towards that which is not yours. When you say it is not mine, it will give rise to abhorrence. When one sees a mosque, he says he does not like it. When one sees a temple of Lord Shiva, he will say, "This is not ours, it is someone else's." Abhorrence will remain as long as one says this, and attachment and abhorrence will cease when one feels that everything is his. When one moves from the opposite opinion, the opposition ceases. Some love the stock market, while others hate it. The one with attachment (raag) for the stock market says, "Trading stocks is good", and the one with abhorrence will say, "Trading is wrong this is not a good business." These are thoughts from two sides being expressed as opinions. Here when one removes oneself from the opposite opinions, he ends the opposition.
A man abandons his wife and children in search of liberation. He leaves his money behind and goes into the forest to lead a life of an ascetic but he cannot get rid of his attachment-abhorrence. What is the obstructive force in all this? Ignorance is the obstructive force. Attachment or abhorrence is not the obstacle, but ignorance is. Vedanta says that man needs to get rid of mud, vikshep and ignorance. Jains say that one needs to get rid of attachment, abhorrence and ignorance. Ignorance is the common factor between the two. Ignorance of what?! The ignorance of the Self. Everything goes once the ignorance of the Self goes. But one needs the knower of the Soul (Atma Gnani) to help him get rid of the ignorance (agnan).
Wherever there is raag-dwesh, there is the worldly life. Where there is no raag-dwesh, then it does not matter whether a person lives in a palace or a shack, he is free from worldly attachment (aparigrahi). And even if a person is living in a cave
