Aptavani 05

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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comforts). Parigraha means a load on the head; I never experience a load of any kind. I do not even feel a load of my body. Yet Dada lives a normal life; he eats, drinks, he goes to weddings and funerals!
The only thing the Vitarags take into consideration is whether a person is free of kashays or not. They do not look at whether he is a tyaagi (one who renounces the worldly life) or a grahasthi (one who lives a family life). Is there a kashayfree state or have their kashay become weak in intensity? The two to five percent of ascetics who have a mild or a good disposition by nature have weak kashays.
Questioner: Is that considered a weakness of understanding?
Dadashri: Not in their understanding, there is natural goodness in them. Nevertheless the Lord still did not call them kashay-free. 'I am' (ego) is kashay.
the path to moksha?
Dadashri: Yes, that is true but where do we get to see such punya in people? There is no stability anywhere. Because, what do people desire? They say they will bind merit karmas so that no demerit karmic effects, in the form of pain and suffering, come their way. However, what does the Lord say? If you bind merit karmas worth one hundred rupees, that is how much will be credited to your karmic account. But if someone comes along and you tell him contemptuously, 'Hey! Move out of my way!' it creates demerit karmas worth two rupees, but it will not be cancelled out by the merit karmas of hundred rupees. You will have to experience the effect of both demerit karmas (paap) and merit karmas (punya). God is not so naïve. If credit-debit were possible, then there would never be any misery in the homes of the Vaniks (mostly Jain faith). But here you have to experience both, happiness as well as misery. See how precise the Lord is! One can never do subtraction in karmas. Kashay Is the Critical Root Cause of Life
After Life After Self-realization, nothing remains to be done and that is why I have told you not to do anything. Whatever is being done is done by a completely different energy but people needlessly take credit and blame for it. In doing so, they increase their number of future lives.
Wherever there is kashay, there is nothing but baggage of parigraha (takes one away from the Self) regardless of whether it is someone living a worldly life (grahasthi), someone who has renounced the worldly life (tyaagi), or someone who lives in the Himalayas. Where there is absence of kashays there is absence of parigraha, even if one is living in a palace. Where do I have any parigraha? It may seem that Dada is a parigrahi (living a worldly life with all the worldly
It is possible for kashays to weaken and decrease in intensity by reading books of Krupadudev Shrimad Rajchandra But people have not realized this. What do we mean by mund kashays? It is when kashays arise, one is aware of them but he will not let anyone else know about them. It is a state such that one is able to turn kashays around. Kashay is the nature of worldly life and a kashay-free state is moksha. The main thing is kashay. If one's kashays are gone, then his work is done; otherwise even if he is a sadhu (monk) or a sanyasi (renunciate), he has not attained anything. As compared to these, those with controllable (mund) kashays living a married worldly life are better.
The plight of the Ignorant Old Man
This man here can be considered a man with low intensity kashay. But without Gnan, where would his chit go? The whole day long it remains in his work, his home, his children, his guests,