Aptavani 06

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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(raudradhyan). And with the total dissolution of the ego, and the resultant tension-free state, his constant liberating laughter (mukta hasya) is clearly evident to all. Such a one, who is a storehouse of infinite attributes, is a Gnani Purush.
The Gnani's Pratikraman If you are sleeping on the ground and there are pebbles poking and bothering you from under the rug, would you not remove them? Pratikraman only needs to be done wherever something bothers and upsets you. You remove whatever bothers you and another removes whatever bothers him. Every person's pratikraman is different.
There are cases where a person keeps obliging others but at home, his conduct is improper, so he has to do pratikraman there. One has to do pratikraman whenever anything bothers him from within. Each individual's pratikraman is different.
"We' too have to do pratikraman; 'ours' is different and yours is different. You will not be able to see 'our' mistakes through your intellect. Therefore, they are subtlest (sookshmatam) and subtler (sookshmatar). 'We have to do pratikraman for them. 'We have to do pratikraman for not remaining in focused awareness as the Self (upayog).
We can never afford to forego our focused awareness as the Self (upayog), can we? 'We have to talk with all these people: 'we' have to answer their questions but nevertheless, 'we' have to remain in our' upayog.
We' do not have to do pratikraman as long as spontaneity and naturalness (sahajikata) are there. In the state of naturalness, even 'You do not have to do pratikraman. Any deviation from naturalness requires pratikraman. Whenever you see 'us, you will see 'us' as spontaneous and natural (sahaj). You will see 'us' the same whenever you see 'us.' There will be no change in 'our spontaneity and naturalness.
The Effect of Hurting Someone Creates Echoes
When you hurt someone, and you can see the pain you are causing that person, you have the awareness that you are hurting them. That is the attribute of the ego called sensitiveness. Sensitiveness is egoism of a kind. As that egoism begins to dissolve, the other person will not experience any hurt. The other person will get hurt as long as you have egoism.
Questioner: This statement is applicable to your state. Should something not arise for us too?
Dadashri: Yes, it must arise.
Questioner: But this solution is only for one's own self, is it not?
Dadashri: Not just for one's own self, but slowly and surely the liberating solution (ukel) must occur for everyone. It is such that only after attaining the liberating solution for one's own self will there be the same for the other person. Others will find a solution only when you have the solution. But as long as the self, the worldly self, i.e., "Chandulal,' has the egoism, the other person will, by rule, experience a reaction. Such egoism must dissolve, for sure.
All this is nothing but effects! There is no such thing as misery (dukh) in this world. It is only and simply a wrong belief. One believes it to be the truth. Now according to one's vision (drashti), that is how it really is, is it not? Therefore, what do you have to do in order to remain unaffected? You have to become pure. Everything becomes pure when you become pure.