Aptavani 05

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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The Gnani has very little charitra moha (illusory attachment in discharge) left. However, those under the shelter of the Gnani have to settle this karma. Charitra moha gets settled in proportion to the 'files' that get settled. Charitra moha can only be discharged with focused awareness as the Self (shuddha upayog)!
Karma is not bound from doing any action; it is bound by the inner intent (bhaav)! A donation of five hundred thousand dollars does not result in the binding of merit karma but if at the time of giving, the meditation was that of, 'I had to give it due to pressure from the society or else I would not give even five dollars'; then this charges a new karma. The effect of this karma will be that he will not be able to give even five dollars in his next life. On what basis does this meditation happen? It is based on one's inner 'development'.
What is religion (dharma)? What is artha (material wealth, meaning)? What is sexual desire (kaam)? And what is liberation (moksha)?
Swarth (selfishness) is generally referred to as worldly selfishness and the application of this meaning starts from selfishness at the worldly level all the way up to the ultimate level of selfishness about the Soul. Swarth (being selfish) for the Self is the ultimate meaning. Such a selfish one is the rare Atmagnani (the one with full knowledge of the Self). That which takes one towards worldly selfishness is sakaam (with expectation of worldly rewards), and that which takes one towards the ultimate meaning, the Self, is akaam (without doership). What is religion (dharma)? That which makes one wander life after life is auspicious religion (shubha dharma), pushing away that which is wrong and non-religious (adharma) is called auspicious religion (shubha dharma). And what takes one to moksha is pure religion (shuddha dharma). Giving donations, doing service, giving help to others, etc., bind credit
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karma (punya) and that is relative religion. And that which frees one from credit and debit karma is Real religion. Final liberation is getting freedom from all attachments of the worldly life and attaining the state of Siddha (absolutely enlightened Ones without a body). For the one who desires freedom, nothing in the universe can bind him! There is no doer in the universe, not even God. The universe runs on scientific circumstantial evidences!
Worshipping child Krishna takes one to Vaikunth (that which contains the chit tendencies). Devotion to Yogeshwar Krishna (Krishna as the enlightened One) along with Selfrealization leads one to moksha. Lord Krishna has used the word 'I' in the Bhagwat Gita for the Self. He has not used it for His relative self, the friend of Arjuna.
There are two types of meditation. One is the meditation associated with the body complex (pudgal), such as meditation of the kundalini (corporeal energy), meditation of a guru, meditation of a mantra, etc., and the other type of meditation is the meditation as the Self. This meditation leads to the nirvikalp samadhi (the egoless state).
Nirvikalp is a state of no 'I-ness'. Nirvichaar is a state without thoughts, a state like a stone; Except for a Gnani, nirvikalp state cannot be found anywhere.
Sankhya and yoga are the two wings on which one can fly to liberation. Sankhya means to know. To know the mind, speech and body and to know the intellect, chit and ego is called Sankhya. Without yoga, without the devotion of the mind (to the guru), one cannot make progress.
'Shiva' means kalyan swaroop (the enlightened One who liberates others).
Samadhi is freedom from any effects of difficulties of body (vyadhi), of mind (aadhi) and from external situations (upadhi).
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