Aptavani 05

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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which is beyond the limit of these tools (sadhans), you need the nimit of a Gnani Purush. When you meet the Gnani Purush, you have to tell him, 'Grace me with the same state that You have attained.' You just have to ask for His grace and in that too, the Gnani Purush is not the doer. He is just a nimit (instrumental in the process). It will be done only because he is a nimit, otherwise it will not happen.
Questioner: The gurus who are in the path of spiritual quest (sadhanas) do not believe in such a thing as a nimit.
Dadashri: That is true. They believe that they have to do so much themselves and that their disciples, for sure, have to do so much. They bind karmas and so do their disciples. However, as they bind karmas they make progress, whereas this is a Gnani Purush: He does not become bound and He liberates others. The inner intent-of being a doer (kartabhaav) binds karmas and the inner intent of being a nimit (nimitbhaav) liberates.
The Absolute Self and the Pudgal
Questioner: The Shuddhatma (the pure Self) is simply the Knower-Seer (Gnata-Drashta), so then who is the one bothering with doing the grace or non-grace? Through whom does it get done?
Dadashri: No one does anything. All this is just the pudgal (the non-Self complex, the mind, speech, and body are referred to as the pudgal, which is a compound word of the words puran: to charge or inflow and galan: to discharge or flow outward).
Questioner: Does all the inspiration (prerana) come from the pudgal?
Dadashri: It is all the pudgal (the non-Self). The ego is also included in the pudgal. Anger-pride-deceit-greed; they all come into the pudgal. The entire pudgal goes through puran
galan influx-output)
Even the ego is subject to the puran-galan phenomenon. When a person attends a wedding, as a guest his ego is fed (puran) when he is greeted with a lot of attention; however, when he does not get any attention, the ego will discharge (galan). When anger suddenly erupts, it will be at 500° and then it will gradually drop down to 400°, to 300°, to 200°, to 100°, and finally to 0°
Even greed is subject to puran-galan. Everything continues to be puran-galan.
Questioner: What is the difference between the Self (the Arma) and the non-Self complex (the pudgal)?
Dadashri: The Self is a single element (vastu). Element means that it does not increase or decrease; it has its own exclusive natural (swabhavik) state. This is not the case with the pudgal. The pudgal is not a natural thing.
What do we call a pudgal? Putting food into this body, the non-Self complex, is puran, and emptying the bowels or bladder is galan. Inhaling is puran and exhaling is galan. The word 'pudgal' is derived from the word "purgal', short form of pur-an-gal-an.
There is pudgal and there is Arma (the Self) in this body. The one who can know how to separate the two has found the Self. But human beings do not have that capability; the Self is beyond the senses, it is beyond the mind and intellect. The Lord resides within the Gnani Purush, so what can a person not attain, through the grace of the Gnani Purush?
The Grace of the Gnani
Questioner: Will the grace (krupa) of 'Dada Bhagwan flow equally on to everyone sitting here?