Aptavani 05

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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kevalgnan (absolute knowing).
The mind will go with You (when you leave this world), the entire baggage will come with You if you do not let it discharge. Instead, why not let it empty out. One rule is that it will empty out. By rule, when all four component; dravya (effect, that which is experienced through the mind, speech and body), kshetra (location or place), kaad (time) and bhaav (inner intent), come together, it will discharge.
The Self is absolutely blissful. The body gives pain and pleasure experiences, the mind gives pain and pleasure experiences, and the speech gives pain and pleasure experiences. Pain (ashata) experience arises even when someone says something to you.
Questioner: When there is experience of physical pain, the chit wanders around only there.
Dadashri: Yes, the chit will keep wandering around there. It will not go out even if you were to tell it to go outside and wander. It will remain within.
that which is eternal. Mantras are not eternal. Nothing in this world is eternal except the Self (the Atma). Everything else is a temporary adjustment. All these relatives are temporary adjustments!
Only the Self is permanent. Once the chit settles in the eternal, it will not wander and that is when it becomes free. When you are reciting mantras (mantra-jaap), how long can the chit remain in it? It will remain there as long as a policeman does not come along. As soon as a policeman comes along the reciting stops and the chit moves away from there. Therefore, that is a temporary adjustment. It gives you temporary relief and peace but it will not do so permanently. There is a need for jaap-yoga (chanting), but only until the knowledge of the eternal is attained. The chit that blends into the eternal becomes pure (shuddha) chit, and One becomes videhi (beyond the body). This is what happens when You become a Shuddhatma. And when You become videhi, You are liberated. You need to become videhi. This current state is considered a state of embodiment (dehi). It is an illusion (bhranti). It begins with the belief 'I am Chandubhai'. The Gnani Purush gets rid of this 'sleep' (ignorance of the Self). The whole world is sleeping with their eyes open (spiritually asleep, ignorant of the Self). Sleeping means having the awareness, 'I am doing it', or, 'I am the doer.' There is not a single man who has been born in the world who has independent control and energy over his own bowel movement and he has no knowledge of where indeed he has the energy and independent control. His energy is in the domain of the Self. The energy of the Self is kshetragnya (in the field of the 'knowing'. Once this kshetragnya energy arises, the work is done! This energy is absolute and complete. All else is an illusion.
Questioner: Does that not cause karmic bondage all over again?
Dadashri: No. You simply have to go through the suffering: there is no way out of it. Karmas are bound if you become the 'doer'. When You cease to be the 'doer', You become free from karmas. Purification of the Chit Is the Beginning of
Liberation When the policeman comes looking for you with handcuffs and it has no effect on you; that is called science (vignan).
Questioner: So then, what should the chit be engaged in? Dadashri: The chit has to be kept in the Self. Keep it in
The tools (sadhan) of penance and chanting are wonderful tools too, but they are merely tools until one attains Selfrealization. They are not the ultimate goal. The ultimate goal