Aptavani 06

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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like a celibate but on his way somewhere, a circumstance may arise which will make him think about sex.
Questioner: Thoughts arise from the entirety of environment, do they not? It is because of circumstantial evidences that one's moral values and friends come together for him, is it not?
Dadashri: Yes, the external evidences have to arise and, based on that, the tubers of the mind sprout. They would not sprout otherwise.
Questioner: Who is the one that leads one to catch on to those thoughts?
Dadashri: It is all natural. But at the same time, you should understand that 'This intellect (buddhi) is wrong': from there on the tubers get destroyed. Gnan is the only light in this world. One can destroy those tubers if he attains the Gnan, through which he gains the understanding of what is harmful to him.
one who is without mistakes as an improver.
Now there are some people who wonder why the mistake keeps occurring even though they have repented for it very heavily. Actually, if the repenting is done heartily, the mistake will definitely go away.
Clearing the Mistake To see the mistakes of the self is the Self, the Soul (Atma). To become impartial for the self is being the Self. No karma will touch You if You are the Self-if You are being the Self, remaining as the Self, seeing the self (You are in shuddha upayog). Many people tell me, 'Your Gnan is true, but when you travel in cars, is it not considered violence to a living being (jiva himsa) because a lot of insects die when they hit the car?' I told them, "We' are shuddha upayogi.' The scriptures say that, "The one who is the Self, remains as the Self, and is in equanimity, Holds the knowledge and the state of meditation as the Self,
Wins the minds of others; Removing the mistakes thus, the embodied being becomes
liberated.' Shuddha upayog ne samatadhari, gnandhyan manohari re;
Kalank ko door nivari, jiva vare shivnari
From the moment one begins to see the mistakes of the self, one attains the key to liberation. 'You' can see whatever mistake there is in 'Chandubhai,' the self. What good is this Gnan if one cannot see the mistakes of the self? That is why Krupadudev Shrimad Rajchandra (a Gnani Purush who became enlightened via the Kramic path) had said:
Questioner: But everyone believes and knows that it is wrong to tell lies, it is wrong to smoke, to eat meat, to act wrong, etc., and yet they continue to do so. Why is that?
Dadashri: Everyone says, "This is all wrong, I should not do that, but they say it superficially. They say it superfluously, not heartily and sincerely. If they say it heartily, then it (the wrongdoing) has no choice but leave after a certain time. No matter how bad the mistake may be, if you regret it heartily, then that mistake will not occur again. And if the mistake occurs again, there is no problem; the important thing is to continue repenting heartily.
Questioner: So is there a possibility for one to improve?
Dadashri: Yes, a great possibility. But there has to be someone who can improve him. An M.D. or F.R.C.S. doctor will not do here. One with mistakes will not do here. You need
I am a receptacle of infinite faults, oh compassionate One, What solution is there if I cannot see my own faults?' 'Hoon toh dosh anant nu, bhajan chhoo karunaad,
Dithaan nahi nij dosh to tariye kaun upaya?"