Aptavani 06

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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If you are not able to make the decision of whether to stay or leave, then just leave. Yes, if you were meant to stay back, then scientific circumstantial evidences (vyavasthit) will bring you back. This is how you should take decisions.
Questioner: What should we do if we feel we do not want to leave under any circumstances and yet at the same time it keeps telling us, 'You should go, should you not?'
Dadashri: You have to see which side is stronger.
antahkaran). When the antahkaran comes to end, that is, when it dissolves, everything will come to its natural place. If you do not become a partner with all that is within the antahkaran, and instead simply keep 'seeing them, then You are separate. For as long as you continue to see it, the chit will continue to purify. If just the chit becomes pure, everything else will become pure too. One wanders life after life because of impure chit. Therefore, this "yoga' of seeing the antahkaran is to be employed to the point where the chit becomes pure.
Questioner: What should be done when deceit (kapat) and deceitful thoughts arise within?
Dadashri: All of that is the non-Self complex (pudgal). The one doing the thinking is also the pudgal. The Soul, the Self, is nothing of the sort. There is absolutely no garbage in it. The 'puzzle that arises is also the pudgal, and the one that creates it is the pudgal too. Who knows that puzzle? It is the Self. The Self is the knower of straight-forwardness (saradata) and deceit (kapat). The Problem of Wavering in Decision-making
Questioner: Until a decision is reached, the mind wavers continuously.
Dadashri: Just because you cannot come to a decision, does that mean you have to remain sitting on the platform? If the wavering of, 'Should I go now, or should I go later?' happens, just get on the train that comes along.
The inability to arrive at a decision is due to the lack of action on the part of the intellect (buddhi). People with intellect can make quick decisions on anything; they make decisions on the moment. It does not take them even five minutes. That is why we have called it common sense. Common sense means 'everywhere applicable.' It is applicable everywhere. This 'key' of common sense is such that every lock,' i.e., every problem,
Questioner: The stronger one tells us that we have to stay here. Dadashri: Then stay here if the one for staying is stronger.
Raag and Niraag Questioner: What comes first, worldly duties (vyavahar) or the Self and its realm (nischay)?
Dadashri: Duties of the worldly life (vyavahar) come first but that does not mean You should get attached to worldly duties.
Questioner: So should one become averse to attachment (niraagi) in the worldly life?
Dadashri: Having attachment (raag) is a single mistake and becoming without attachment (niraagi) is double the mistake. One cannot remain niraagi.
Questioner: Niraagi in what way? Please explain further.
Dadashri: It is when one becomes abhorrent towards worldly life (nispruha) here. By nispruha with worldly life we mean that when a mother tells her son, 'Why do you not listen to me?' the son says, 'I have become Atma'; that is not acceptable. There should be humility (vinaya) and discrimination