Aptavani 05

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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Dadashri: No, one will still get fooled. Even the very smart ones get fooled. Therefore be aware of this ahead of time. Whenever the intellect (buddhi) gives you advice, tell her, 'Madam, go back to your mother's home. I do not need you anymore. I do not even want to listen to your advice. There is no problem in listening to the advice of the mind but the intellect is the only thing whose advice is not to be listened to.
dislike will set in. Everything feels good as long as you like it and not so if you do not. You should not have abhorrence or aversion towards that which you do not like.
Questioner: There is no attachment or abhorrence, but it is very difficult to like (bhaav) something once dislike (abhaav) occurs towards it, no matter what.
Dadashri: Even if you keep painting him as a good person, that paint will not stick. Your karmic account of 'like' is paid off. Would you have any feeling towards this home if it were sold?
Questioner: No.
Dadashri: And how about before selling it? If something were to happen to it you would be affected in the mind. Once your karmic account is paid off, you are done with it.
Intellect Perpetuates Worldly Life
Influence of one's entrenched opinion and prejudices do not go away easily. I am cautioning you towards such influences before they come your way.
This science is alaukik (beyond the world). Everything about it is alaukik; there is nothing laukik (worldly) in it. Laukik means obstinacy about one's own belief (matagrahi). Whether one is a Digambari or Shwetambari, Sthanakvasi or Deravasi, Terapanthi (all different sects in the Jain religion), Vaishnav religion, Shaivism or Islam, they are all worldly religions, there is nothing wrong with any one of them. You get worldly comforts like cars, a home, etc., for merit karmas done through these religions, and here with this religion that is alaukik; You get liberation (moksha).
Questioner: There is no one more unfortunate than the one who gets fooled by his intellect, having come under Your shelter.
The intellect will not let you come out of the worldly life. That which does not let you go to moksha is called buddhi
intellect). The intellect shows you profit and loss - worldly benefit and harm. It will goad you, "maybe this will happen', or,
that will happen'. It is entrenched in insistence of inflexible opinions (matagraha). Inflexible about what? It is inflexible about opinions. Instead of being heavily insistent (abhigraha) about the Self, one becomes strongly insistent about his opinions. Now, tell me, when and where will this end up? He will not get anywhere even after thousands of life times. The inner turmoil will never go away, whereas in the presence of the Gnani Purush the inner turmoil will stop forever.
As the intellect increases, so does the inner turmoil. The intellect drives you deeper into the worldly life. It is beneficial for the worldly life but it will raise objections towards moksha. The mind only does the thinking. Where no decisions are made; that is the mind. Undecided thoughts are what we call the mind and decided thoughts are called "buddhi' (intellect). While sitting here, if you are lost somewhere else, know that your chit is wandering elsewhere. Your intellect will become right and docile when you sit with a Gnani Purush; that is samyak (enlightened) buddhi. What is the enlightened intellect like? It has no opinions, no sectarianism, no differences, and no problems. The intellect with opinions of segregation is considered wrong intellect (mithya buddhi). It will say, 'this is mine and this is yours, hence it will create separation.