Aptavani 06

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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If you want to improve someone, then no matter how much pain he inflicts upon you, if you do not let a single negative thought about him cross your mind, he will be improved for sure. This is the only way; improve the self and as a result the other person improves!
If you tell someone, 'This is your fault,' directly to him, he will not accept it and, on the contrary, he will cover up his fault. If you tell someone, 'You should do it this way,' he will do just the opposite. Instead, if you say it in the following manner, 'What benefit will you gain in doing it that way?' he will stop.
Who will accompany you on the funeral pyre? Which bubble in the flowing water do you hold onto? Who stays with whom?
One is not even aware whether the thing over which he clashes is his own or another's. Am I the one doing all this or is someone else making me do it? There should be no clash whatsoever, even at the cost of the physical body! The moment the inner intent spoils, the moment there is dislike within or the slightest rising of the eyebrow, conflict will start. Others may clash with us but when we decide not to clash with anyone, then despite circumstances of potential clash, we can avoid clash and, in addition, our 'common sense' will develop; otherwise, because of the lack of awareness, the infinite energy of the Self will be smothered and covered up during that clash. How can anyone who wants 'safety' in the world, and also wants to complete the path to ultimate liberation, give any 'scope' to clash?
If, at some point in time, one has heard the Gnan through which the Gnanis have won over the world, then that knowledge will be helpful. In the end, one has to win over the world!
Only when everyone in this world likes us will success be attained. Whose fault is it if the world does not like us? If others
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feel disconnected (aloof) due to difference of opinion with us, it is only because of our own mistake. There, the Gnani, through his art of intellect and Gnan art, will quell the disconnection due to difference of opinions even before it happens.
After one attains the awareness of the Self, the duality of 'favorable/adverse' will cease to exist. As long as there is the dwelling in the temporary state and in the relative-self, there will be 'favorable/adverse,' which is totally the worldly life. As long as 'sweet' is felt as 'sweet,' 'bitter' will be felt as 'bitter.' If one does not experience 'sweet' as sweet, there is nothing to be suffered in the 'bitter.' If the 'knower' state prevails in 'sweet,' the knower state will naturally be there in the 'bitter' also. Instead, what happens is that due to the old habit of enjoying the 'sweet,' the bitter comes around to hurt.
The inner weaknesses of passion, anger, pride, illusion, greed, etc. (kashays) that are created in favorable circumstances are easy and sweet. They are the passions of attachment and they contain greed and deceit and their bondage cannot be broken. These passions will drown one in the comfort of pleasures and will cause one to miss out the path to liberation for a period of infinite lifetimes.
People can't help but give out a feast of applause to the person who does charity and gives donations. If that person is hungry for recognition and self-validation (maan), he will even pick from mud, pieces of applause that people throw in and feed on them. Gnanis never 'accept' even a feast of thirty-two varieties offered to them, so where is the danger of any 'sickness' setting in?
Whatever work you do, the work itself has no real value. But if there is attachment-abhorrence while doing it, it will create another life for you after this life, and if there is no attachmentabhorrence, there is no liability for another life.
There will be freedom when one does not see a single
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