Aptavani 02

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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within your own intrinsic nature (the Self) and properties (gunadharma)." If a person drinks sour kadhee, it increases pitta in the body. There is no telling when the properties of the non-self may change the properties of the Self, however remain constant and never change.
The science of prakruti is amazing. It is worth understanding One Ayurvedic doctor told his patient, "Do not eat any bananas: they have a cooling effect." Someone overheard the doctor and so he goes home and tells everyone, "Don't eat bananas, they have a cooling effect. "People have no sense; they take things to such extremes. The doctor's advice was meant just for that particular patient, otherwise bananas are good for everyone. But this man goes around giving incorrect information to everyone. If you ask him where he obtained this knowledge, he would tell you that the doctor himself was saying so. You fool! The doctor was talking to his patient because bananas are not suited to that patient's prakruti but why are you doing the same? As far as your prakruti is concerned, bananas are suitable.
Everyone's prakruti is different, certain things maybe suitable for one person's prakruti and detrimental to another's So one should not go around giving everyone such knowledge
Do you drink tea? Questioner : No I do not Dadashri : Why not?
Questioner: I do not like the taste of it. I like the taste of coffee and so I drink coffee.
Dadashri : There is a reason why you do not like tea; it does not suit your prakruti. That is why if someone offered you tea and coffee, you would choose coffee and that is why you are able to drink coffee. When something suites the prakruti, you say, "I like it" and when something does not suite your prakruti,
you say, "I don't like it." The questions you ask and the knowledge you attain is all relative knowledge, but what is the reality of this world? People generally say, "I do not have that knowledge. "What is the reality? The Self is verily that reality. Everyone knows the relative viewpoints but will you not have to know the real viewpoint? Knowing both the real and the relative is knowledge through pragnya i.e. the direct light of the Self, and to know just one viewpoint is knowledge through the intellect or buddhi, which is the indirect light of the Self mediated through the ego.
When a man abandons his wife and children and becomes an ascetic, he is not the one who is renouncing, but his prakruti forces him to do so. It is the prakruti that makes a person renounce worldly things or undergo penance, but the ego claims, 'I renounced' or 'I am doing penance' or 'I am doing samayik'. Prakruti controls and runs everything until one becomes a Purush (the Self). Reading scriptures, meditation, doing samayik etc., is prakrutgnan i.e. it is relative knowledge; it is not Atmagnan; it is not real knowledge. Prakrutgnan prevails everywhere in the world. Even the prominent preceptors, ascetics, sages, are in prakrutgnan; they do not have the knowledge of the Self. Whatever they know is all prakrutgnan. They do not have knowledge of Atmagnan. Go to Gnani Purush if you want Atmagnan. Gnan can only be found with a Gnani, nowhere else.
Elsewhere they make you leave or change attributes of the prakruti and its habits. Alas! When will you achieve that? Whereas here we say that the Soul is eternally free and separate from the good habits and the bad habits of the prakruti. In the Akram path we simply walk away from this 'shop' of the relative self by saying, "This shop is not mine", whereas in other paths they make you empty the shop one item at a time. How long would that take? Instead, if you just step down by saying, "This is not mine", that would be the end of that!