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'brain-tonics', are very detrimental (they increase the negative intellect). In a trade that is pure like the trade of diamonds, what have people started to do? Instead of pure diamonds they substitute them with fake ones. How can anyone measure up to such deceit? Better than these merchants are the grocers who sell adulterated goods, at least they sell the good and the bad mixed together. But here instead of having just one pure article of trade, they have so many fake alternatives. How can we deal with such people? We are not talking about anyone specifically. But if someone has the insight and a capacity to understand, then you can tell them that the Gnani Purush has said for us to be cautious in such matters. It is beneficial if you exercise caution in the right use of the intellect (buddhi), because otherwise it is nothing but hard raudradhyan. We have different varieties of wood. Some woods are soft and some are so hard that they even break the planer used to smooth the wood. If the wood is soft, we can even make matchsticks. But the hard wood is like hard raudradhyan; there is simply no solution.
What is sankalp and vikalp? Whenever one says, 'my' or 'mine' it is sankalp. Whenever one says, 'T' (with the belief of 'I am Chandulal') it is vikalp. These two are false projections of the self (aropit bhaav), the non-Self. The Self has no connection with them. This is how the Lord has defined sankalp and vikalp in the language of the vitarags, however the Lord also accepts the worldly definition. The worldly language also needs to exist does it not? People will become confused if we negate the worldly language. Do you want to know the definitions in the Vitarag language or the worldly language?
Questioner : The vitarag language.
Dadashri : This is vitarag language: according to the vitarag language when the belief of 'I am Chandulal' goes away. so does everything else. The vikalp of I-ness' goes away and
so does 'my-ness' (sankalp). Whatever goes on in the mind, the world calls it sankalp-vikalp, whereas vitarags call it adhyavasan (vacillating thoughts of the mind).
Everything is different in the language of the vitarags and it is of great benefit when one understands it. Is there only one kind of a diamond merchant? A diamond merchant from Bombay will buy a diamond for one lakh Rupees and a diamond merchant in Madras will pay one and a quarter lakh Rupees, because he sees more value in it. A diamond dealer in Paris will pay the Madras dealer two and a half lakhs because he sees more value in it. A true merchant will buy the expensive goods, he would be willing to pay the higher price for the real goods. A fool would not pay because he does not recognize its true value; he will try to negotiate a lesser price: 'sell it to me for five hundred Rupees otherwise I am not interested!' A true merchant would pay its worth.
A true seeker knows the priceless nature of the language of the vitarag Lords. Destroying your mistakes is the vitarag path
The path of vitarag means to destroy mistakes; to destroy mistakes from all different aspects and to move away from the worldly language and understanding, to the language and understanding of the vitarag. The path of vitarag is very simple. No effort is required if one meets a Gnani Purush to attain moksha. Otherwise, no one has been able to attain moksha and never will, through his own efforts. If it were possible to attain moksha through hard work, then people work very hard in their rituals, laborers work hard in carrying heavy bricks etc., in both the situations hard work is involved and they would have attained moksha. It is not so, no one has ever achieved moksha through hard work, moksha is achieved through vitaragata (the state of total detachment and absence of raag-dwesh). Regardless of the circumstances you find yourself in, if you maintain
