Book Title: Aptavani 09
Author(s): Gnani Purush Dadashri
Publisher: Gnani Purush Dadashri

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________________ Currently everyone is in mithyatva mohaniya and mishra mohaniya, both the states of being deluded by the illusion that this world is real. A man in whom samyaktva mohaniya arises, the Lord would call him a great soul. But here man considers himself something great if he has a house and some land; he considers himself so fortunate that he rubs his stomach with contentment, belches with satisfaction and falls asleep. Hey you foolish one! How can you sleep? You have slept for countless past lives, rubbing your belly in this way. Are you not ashamed? You rub your big belly this way and belch with contentment. How can you fall asleep? Is this world for sleeping away your life like this? How can you sleep when you have attaind this precious human life? You have attaind a human life form, you have all the conveniences, you have conveniences of reading all the great scriptures, you have attaind a high level devotion bhakti, you have had darshan of the vitarag Lords in derasars and and you go off to sleep feeling content like this? And these people have created the 'bedrooms'. You foolish ones, you cannot have bedrooms. Everyone should sleep together in one room. Bedrooms create worldly troubles! Bedrooms have caused people to be preoccupied with that which perpetuates worldly troubles the whole nightlong. So how can they even think about the Self? Can one have thoughts about the Self in his private bedroom? I asked one person, 'What is your meditation dhyan before you go to sleep?' He replied, 'It is ten thirty now so should I not go to sleep?' hey you!! You are going to sleep without earning anything? Tell me what you earned today?' I asked him and he replied, 'At least I do something, she does not do anything.' I asked her and she proceeded to tell me, 'He does not do anything either. This is how people talk. Questioner: Yes, that is how people look at things rather than looking at themselves. Dadashri: All this is nothing but deceit! The entire world lives is suspicion without exceptions. Their suspicions never ventures into 'what is the Soul? They have uncertanties about, I wonder if the Soul is like this? Or maybe it is like that? Uncertainty always remains and that gives rise to all kinds of suspicions and more suspicions.

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