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Aptavani-2
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Aptavani-2
You hold most of the world's gold and money and yet you need pills to fall asleep. What is going on with you? I once met a foreigner scientist with whom I had a conversation. He asked me, "Where are we at fault in all this?" I told him, "Your physical science is above normal and so it has become poisonous. Below normality is poison and above normality is poison too. Normality is the real life."
The path of vitarag says that whatever is happening is really a cause for support for the vitarag path. It gives support to the vitarag path.
Questioner : When we think of it that way, then our thoughts and intentions for the vitarag path multiply by many folds.
Dadashri : Raag-dwesh does not occur to 'us'. 'We' immediately understand what they are doing. What are they doing in the Jain monasteries? They are supporting the vitarag!! What is a vitarag path? It is a path where restlessness is destroyed. The result of satvikta (a guna of prakruti which is encouraged) is absence of restlessness. There should be normality to satvikta. If there is restlessness, then the practice of satvikta has gone beyond limits. That needs to be eradicated. No spiritual effort should lead to any kashays; it should not make one emotional. A person whose restlessness is relatively lesser does not become emotional; he remains in motion. Compared to the total number of karmas such a person will bind over his entire lifetime, a restless person will bind significantly more within just a quarter of an hour. So all this nourishes the vitarag path. Every negative thing that you see, everything that appears negative, is actually maintaining and nourishing the Vitarag dharma
A question arose within me in 1928 when I had gone to watch a movie, "My goodness! What will these movies do to our culture? What will become of all these people?" Then
another thought came to mind, "Do we have any solutions for such thoughts? Do we have any control over it? These thoughts are useless because we do not have any control over them. Such thoughts are beneficial only if we can do something about them. To be preoccupied with thoughts that are beyond our control is nothing but egoism." Then another thought came to me, "Is this the path that India is heading towards?" I did not have Gnan in those days. Gnan occurred in 1958, so prior to that there was only ignorance of the Self. No one had taken away the ignorance. There was no Gnan but ignorance was there for sure. However, even in ignorance I could see, 'That which can destroy something very fast can also do good with the same momentum. So for the purpose of positive influence, this is the best medium. 'I had thought about all this very thoroughly at that time but after I attained Gnan in 1958, no more thoughts have arisen in this matter.
Today the work of vitarag path is not going on in just one place but throughout the world. They are all giving nourishment to the vitarag dharma and destroying themselves in the process.
These high ranking ministers come to me and tell me, 'India is ruined.' I tell them, "Sir, please take care that your home does not become ruined. Be careful that your daughters do not become wayward and spoiled." He has three cars parked outside his home. He takes one to work, his wife takes the other and his daughters are running around in the third one. Be careful that the 'wealth' of your home does not become ruined! As yet, no such person is born who can ruin India, this is the country of the vitarag Lords. It is a country of wise sages and ascetics (rushimunis), no one can touch such a country. A country that gave birth to Vasudevs like Lord Krishna, twenty four Tirthankaras, twelve Chakravarti (Emperor) kings, nine Vasudevs, nine Prativasudevs and nine Balarams; how can such a country be short of anything?
