Aptavani 06

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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Aptavani-6
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Dadashri: There is no need to pull back the energy. Energies are already there. They arise now. The conflicts that had occurred in the past caused a loss of energy, and that loss is presenting now as conflicts. From here onwards, if you react to the conflict, then the energy that has arisen will leave again. If one does not enter into the conflict, no matter what, the energies will keep increasing.
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Seeing the Circumstances as They Are Questioner: Why is it that everyone wants favorable circumstances?
Dadashri: Favorable circumstances (anukud) means pleasure (sukh); favorable is that in which one experiences comfort and pleasure (shata). When it becomes uncomfortable and painful (dukh, ashata), that is unfavorable circumstances (pratikud). The Self is blissful by nature; therefore, it does not want unfavorable circumstances. That is why even the smallest living organism will move away from unfavorable circumstances (pratikud).
Therefore, understand the ultimate point: make favorable and unfavorable as one and the same. As such, there is no worth in anything. Everything is like those old coins with a picture of the Queen on one side and writing on the other. Similarly, there is nothing to this; favorable and unfavorable are nothing but a figment of the imagination.
Now that you are pure Soul (Shuddhatma), there is no such thing as favorable and unfavorable. This worldly life is here as long as there is false attribution (aropit bhaav) of the belief 'I am Chandulal,' and until then, there is interference of favorable and unfavorable circumstances. Now whatever appears as unfavorable to the world is favorable to us.' It is only during unfavorable circumstances that we can tell whether the inner 'temperature' of the thermometer has decreased or increased; unfavorable circumstances gives us an opportunity to check how we have advanced in Gnan.