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unginned cotton and jaggery? Is the buffalo likely to ever come out? Such a pleasure is called garavata.
Questioner: Which entity in the antahkaran inner mechanism of mind, intellect, chit and ego, indulges in the garavata?
Dadashri: Who can it be? It is the ego, it is not anyone else. The intellect will explain this is garavata and that it is pleasant.
Questioner: But the main involvement in garavata is of the chitvruti - the tendencies of chit, is it not?
Dadashri: The chit will have a tendency to rove around there.
Questioner: In the places of garavata?
Dadashri: Yes, just like a fly, it roves around there.
The mind mun is born out of opinions abhipraya ; a lot of importance is given to the mind. Now how does an opinion arise? Vishesh-bhaav the sense of 'I am Chandulal' as opposed to 'I am Shuddhatma - gives rise to the ego and the ego gives rise to opinions. Opinions give rise to the mind, which in turn begins to make the chit impure. And as the chit begins to become impure one starts to sink in the mud. Now, who would pull him out of that mud? And in addition to that, there is the issue of garavata! There is ras-garavta which is garavata of taste, riddhi-garavta which is garavata of wealth and siddhi-garavta which is garavata of special energy! A person is trapped in these three kinds of garavata, so who will pull him out of these garavata?
All this is garavata too ...
Questioner: Can you explain this ras garavata?
Dadashri: The juice of mangos, other types of juices, the taste of basoondi milk delicacy etc.
Questioner: Are you referring to the tastes of food?
