Aptavani 05

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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conduct. External conduct is an effect and not a cause. I remove all the causes; thereafter the effects will automatically wash away on their own.
Absolute Humility
Questioner: Is param vinaya (absolute humility) a
conduct?
Dadashri: Param vinaya arises on its own. This Gnan will give rise to it. Just as a child does not touch poison once he is informed of what poison is and what it can do, similarly this Gnan gets rid of lack of humility (avinaya) and gives rise to absolute humility. You do not have to maintain param vinaya but...
Questioner: It happens automatically.
Dadashri: Yes, You will automatically remain in param
vinaya.
Absolute Humility in the Satsang with the Gnani Purush
Dadashri: You all stand up as 'we' enter; there is no need to do so. Nothing is to be gained in this standing-upsitting-down exercise. On the contrary one becomes tired doing it.
Questioner: But we do that anyway when we worship the Lord in the derasar (Jain temple)!
Dadashri: There you earn a lot of points for vinaya (humility); but here there is a lot more earning of another kind to be gained. The reward of humility is moksha but moksha is not the reward for performing rituals (kriya). The humility you maintain in the derasar is evident and can be seen. It is a ritual for sure but within you, at a very subtle level, the humility you maintain will lead you towards moksha. During the time one performs such worship of the Lord, one is not being spiteful to
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anyone.
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Your humility 'here' (in front of the Gnani Purush) will bring you both reward of worldly benefits (abhyudaya) and aanushangik (related to the Self, moksha). If one shows humility to his guru when he is in front of him, but starts criticizing him after he leaves, then everything goes to waste. Do not criticize or slander the one to whom you express humility and if you want to criticize him then do not express humility towards him. There is no meaning in doing that, is there?
Here there is nothing left for you to do, is there? The reason I tell you all not to stand up here is because nowadays people have so much trouble with their legs and knees. They are constantly on the run, the whole day long. They are exhausted going up and down the stairs of the railway bridges! So on top of that, if 'we' were to tell you to stand up and sit down, what can we attain? Instead, why don't you sit comfortably and at ease? You are all free to sit in any manner you choose. Everything, your reverence for Dada, has reached Dada. This Dada only sees your inner intent and not your external conduct or actions.
Progression of Understanding
Questioner: In order not to see the other person at fault, deal with him with the understanding that his prakruti (non-Self complex) is the doer.
Dadashri: That is the understanding and talk of the first stage but in the ultimate understanding, none of this happens. The Self is merely the Knower of this and nothing else. But instead one takes it as, 'he did this, he is the doer for sure.' It is just a wrong belief.
Questioner: His only child, his son, was killed...
Dadashri: He never dies. The main 'thing' the Self, the