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Aptavani-5
Aptavani-5
bunch of thoughts occur, it is called the mind. The mind has two kinds of thoughts. It has good thoughts and it can have bad thoughts. It is the dharma of the mind to have both kinds of thoughts. When one has no thoughts at all, if his mind does not function at all, he is considered absent minded. Such absent mindedness makes one's human life completely useless. Even a mad man has a mind, but it functions.
Now, even as you are sitting here, can you visualize your home in London?
record player, which also 'speaks'.
Questioner: Explain that to me, please.
Dadashri: The one who is speaking is not Dada Bhagwan'. It is the original taped record that is doing the talking. This is the Science of Akram; the stepless, short cut path to the knowledge of the Self. This is something that has never been heard before.
Hearing is a dharma (intrinsic function, nature) of the ear. Therefore you can say that a deaf person's ears are not in their dharma.
Now what is the dharma of the eyes? Questioner: It is to see.
Dadashri: Yes, it is not the Soul's dharma to see all this. What is the dharma of the nose?
Questioner: To smell. Dadashri: What is the dharma of the tongue? Questioner: To taste.
Dadashri: It will know immediately when you put something bitter on it. Therefore these five sense organs are in their dharma. These are the sense organs that convev information: knowledge (gnanendriya) and they are all in their dharma. They are dravyendriya (external, visible sense organs) and bhavendriya (inner invisible sense organs). The bhavendriya will remain even after the dravyendriya have been exhausted. Therefore both the five gnanendriyas, and bhavendriya are in their own dharma.
Is the mind (mun) in its own dharma, or not? Questioner: I do not understand that. Dadashri: The mind is always thinking. When a whole
Questioner: Yes, I can. Dadashri: Can you see the tables and chairs in it too? Questioner: Yes, I can.
Dadashri: That is not the dharma of the mind. Due to lack of understanding, people believe that it is the mind that wanders off. In fact, the mind does not go anywhere at all. It is the chit that wanders. The mind cannot leave the body. What wanders out of the body is the chit.
Questioner: Are the chit and the mind separate entities?
Dadashri: Yes, they are separate. You can call them anything in the worldly language but the language of the Lord is beyond the language of the world. Unless one understands the language of the Lord, he can never attain moksha (liberation).
The chit wanders outside the body. While sitting here the chit goes out and sees the home and the table, the clock, etc., inside it. The function of the mind is to think. The mind thinks good thoughts and bad thoughts. To see the good and to see the bad is the function (dharma) of the chit.
Questioner: Should one consider the chit to be chetan (animate or consciousness), or jada inanimate or lifeless)?
Dadashri: It is a blend of the Self and the non-Self
