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send it. When mosquitoes bite you on your leg, let them, there is no problem if you withdraw your chit from there. Besides the mosquitoes will only bite if you have a karmic debt with them. What is the nature of the chit? Once you withdraw it from a certain location it will not remember that place. The Self (Soul) exists in all parts of the body except the hair and the nails, but if you pull your chit away, then no messages can be forwarded to the 'head office. The message only reaches the head office due to the presence of the chit; only then will the 'Deputy Superintendent of the Police (the one who follows the orders of the Self' come to investigate. If a mosquito bites you on your hand, your chit will go there. Loosing a hundred thousand or making a hundred thousand is like these mosquitoes that come and go.
If a man is very hungry is he likely to be staring at clothes in a cloth shop? No, he will look for a food store. If a hungry man steps out of his house, he will look for food. A woman, hungry for a sari, will seek out a sari shop one way or the other When the body is not hungry, the mind will become hungry When neither the body nor the mind is hungry, there will be a hunger for speech. When one says, "I will not rest until I tell him", that is hunger for speech. If you are eating and a beggar passes by, the old people used to say, "Be careful, that he does not cast an evil eye (najar) on you." Now what is this 'najar' that they talk about? It means that the chit becomes stuck in anything that one is hungry for. If a woman is hungry for a particular man, her chit will get stuck in that man and vice versa. Everything has been ruined by casting such 'najar!
If a baby is very cute, the parents will put a little black spot on his face or his forehead in order to avoid someone casting an evil eye (najar) on the child. A person's chit is likely to get stuck if he is hungry for a baby, will it not? The black spot on the face is to divert the chit's focus away from the face.
Only the Gnani Purush is untouched by najar. Whenever a person stares at the Gnani, the Gnani immediately sees the Self
within that person. All the machinery within is like telepathy, if the Self gets involved in it, everything will be ruined.
If one's chit is relatively pure, then when he studies, he will remember everything he reads just once. The intention of studying is to attain purity of the chit in the relative sphere.
Only the purity of chit is important
One will remember what he reads only if his chit is present when he reads. When I was young, I used to study without the presence of the chit. Is that why I failed? No, I did not fail, but I was called dumb. As such I was brilliant. I told the teacher, "Sir, I spent fifteen years trying to learn one language, but had I spent those fifteen years searching for God, I would have definitely found Him by now." The prime years of my life were wasted in learning one language, which even a young child could learn. But the teacher did not understand that
Questioner: Is chit the main component of the antahkaran? Is chit not the leader that drags the rest of them down? Which needs to be controlled, the chit or the mind? Why do people forget the chit and go after the mind?
Dadashri: What you are saying is true. Even the Gnanis have given importance to the chit but people do not know anything about the chit or the mind. They think the mind and the chit are the same. The chit does not remain in one place and the mind keeps showing pamphlets, but people do not know which the chit is and which the mind is.
The chit however, will not roam during satsang. Chit is the relative self. When the chit becomes still, so will the relative atma and Dada has given you the Self. When both, the relative and the real Self sit still next to each other, then one experiences nothing but liberation (moksha). This is exactly why you have to sit in the satsang. Otherwise, there are many parks and gardens, but when you sit in satsang, the chit remains steady and the atma
