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To this I reply, "No, those who are in non-dualism no longer have a need to know the Self. How did you arrive at this 'station' of non-dualism? Where did you find a guru who teaches you such things?"
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They ask me, "Dada, why do you remain in duality?" I ask them, "What do you understand by duality and non-duality? First, you have to understand these terms. The Self is neither dwaita (dualism) nor adwaita (non-dualism). It is in the form of dwaita-adwaita (beyond duality and non-duality)." If you become dwaita, then you will have confusion (vikalp) towards adwaita and if you become adwaita, you will be confused about dwaita. The Self is beyond dwaitadwaita, nevertheless if you want to talk about it in your worldly interactions, you can say, "The Self (Atma) is dwaitadwaita, it is not partial. From the relative view point it is dwaita and from the real view point it is adwaita." When 'Dada' talks, he is in the relative, in the dwaita, and when He is the Self, He is adwaita. Therefore, dwaita is there because of adwaita and vice versa. This is so because they are relative to each other. As long as you have not realized the Self, if you become involved only in the adwaita, then you are doomed. Therefore, know this much and think. If you fall into dwaita, it will create duality and if you fall into adwaita that too, will give rise to duality. And if you transcend both and come into dwaitadwaita, (dualism-nondualism, the Self), then the duality will not arise. There are no adjectives when you go to the siddhagati (the location of ultimate liberation); it is a state of nirvishesh (adjective less)! How long does the state of dualismnondualism prevail? It is there as long as there is a body.
If you believe only in non-dualism, then it is being one track minded (ekantik) and that means it is a wrong and an unrealistic view. It is also an unrealistic and a wrong view if you believe only in dualism. There should be no partiality; one needs to be dwaitadwaita; it should be all encompassing (anekant). Vitarag Lords were impartial and all encompassing: they
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accepted all view-points. To be partial means to be insistent. The path to liberation belongs to those who are void of insistence.
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I asked a believer of adwaita whether he was married. He said, "I am married but we do not live together." Dadashri, "You ruined a woman's life? What kind of a guru do you have? Did you become adwaita after getting married? How did you become so?" What is a true adwaita? When your conduct does not hurt your wife, your children or anyone else, even in the slightest degree, then you are considered to have the character of dwaita-adwaita. How did one end up in the 'cave' of adwaita only? You will pay a heavy price if you got into these paths of namarmunda (shaving of the head when one takes a vow of ascetic. i.e. paths of rituals). You will never find anyone who will tell you the truth in this manner because I do not have any selfinterest. Only he who has no self-interest can tell you things as they are; only he can tell you the absolute truth. All others will flatter you out of their own self-interest and selfishness.
In the worldly adwaita path one tries to purify the ego through renunciation and penance and thus brings it from duality to the level of adwaita (non-duality). In this state the 'T' remains as the adwaita state but in fact it is still as, 'I am Chandulal.' Or 'I have renounced this.' This false belief of 'I' never leaves. Therefore, all the assertions are illusionary (mayavi), albeit attractive to those who listen about states of non-duality. These are all stepping stones. These are necessary, until one attains the Self. Ultimately, Self-realization can only occur when one meets the Gnani Purush and he graces the receiver with the experience of the Self.
Moksha through anekant - acceptance of every perspective
What does Vedanta say? They say, "Self is pure. We are adwaita." They say and insist that the Self is Adwaita; that is not
