Aptavani 05

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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anukud (favorable, pleasant) kashays; raag kashays. You can let go of the pleasant and favorable (anukud) ones whenever you want, but great awareness (jagruti) is required under such a circumstance. The unfavorable circumstance (pratikud) is bitter and therefore awareness arises instantly. Favorable circumstances are sweet.
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When I did not have Gnan, I used to remain very cautious, alert during favorable (anukud) circumstances. In unfavorable (pratikud) circumstances you will be made aware without fail; it is the favorable circumstances that make us wander life after life. If a person sees a snake enter his home, you will not have to remind him about the snake; he will remain aware and alert. Therefore, it is very critical to remain awake and alert in this world. It is favorable circumstances that cause you to doze off and make mistakes.
Charge of Karmas and Discharge of Karmas
When discharge (of karmas) happens, some events are very sweet and some are very bitter. In both the circumstances, the bitter and the sweet, You have to separate, and simply 'see' them just like a neighbor. Sweetness and bitterness is the constant nature of the pudgal (the non-Self complex).
Questioner: Let the discharge take place in the body; nothing is worth preserving or looking after in it.
Dadashri: There can never be anything worth looking after, can there? And what you try to take care of cannot be preserved either! What You need to preserve is Your Self.
Whatever the intent (bhaav) was, at the time of binding the karmas, is the intent (bhaav) with which those karmas will discharge. That is its nature (swabhav). That bondage (binding of karmas) took place in 'our' presence, ('I am the doer, I am Chandubhai') but the discharge can take place in our absence too. Discharge can occur even if there is samvar (no new
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karmas are charged). However, charging of karmas cannot occur in 'our' (the self) absence. So with whatever intent the binding of karmas occurred, it occurred in 'our' presence.
Now when it discharges with that same intent, just 'see' it and 'know' that this is how it was bound.
Questioner: Can they discharge with the same inner intent that created the bondage in the first place?
Dadashri: Not with that same intent (bhaav). Intent will never lead to release from karmic bondage. A karma that was bound with a cruel intent, will appear cruel when it discharges. But, today those results are not Yours. They are just discharging. You simply have to 'see' what is discharging. From that You can tell what kind of karma was bound, what the intent was with which it was bound, and what the root cause of the current discharge (nirjara) was.
Movement of the Celestials
Questioner: Do the celestial beings move around in the seven locations (kshetras) that have been described?
Dadashri: Devas (celestial beings) can go wherever there is presence of humans. Actually Devas go more to where the Tirthankars are. They come less to our world. They would not come here as long as our world is dirty and smelly. Devas will go where there is a Gnani Purush. They will go wherever these vidhis (rituals of worship), and worshipping is being taught, even if Gnan is not present.
Moving Beyond the Right and the Wrong
What are these religions (dharmas) for? Is the definition of religion to push away adharma? Is it to hang on to dharma and get rid of adharma? Is it appropriate to push away someone?
Questioner: Adharma (that which hurts others) should