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Questioner: Are you referring to the tastes of food?
Dadashri: Yes, the taste; all those are called rasgaravata. Some people like certain foods a lot. If he is going to get his favorite food for dinner, his chit will be in it from the morning till it is cooked. His chit will be in it even after he finishes eating. That is called ras-garavata.
The buffalo sitting in the mud is ras-garavata. Humans have garavata in the taste of the five senses. One will not budge from there; that is the ras-garavata of sense organs.
Then there is riddhi-garavata. 'I have a mill... I have five children...I have a bungalow...' it is all riddhi-garavata. Riddhi means anything related to money, worldly possession is riddhi.
Questioner: What comes under siddhi? Dadashri: Siddhi is spiritual. Questioner: Give us an example of siddhi.
Dadashri: There is no problem for a tiger and a lamb to come together in the presence of an ahimsak human being - a person who is non-violent through the mind, body and speech. Or if an angry person comes here (in this satsang), he will forget everything when he sees 'us'. It will make him forget his nature.
The saints, ascetics and spiritual leaders have siddhigaravata. When someone comes to them saying, 'I have such and such an ailment', they cash in their siddhi, they use their special spiritual energy and then they remain in its garavata. They feel happy when people give them respect and recognition People will bring them good food as a token of their appreciation and they will eat and enjoy it. This is the kind of garavata they enjoy. If they happen to attain certain siddhis, they will live in the garavata of that siddhi. They do not think of advancing themselves further.
Questioner: So does garavata halt progress?
Dadashri: Yes, because he becomes happy when people start respecting him.
Therefore there is garavata of spiritual energy, wealth and sense pleasures. There are many such garavata. There is garavata even in scriptures.
Questioner: Is there garavata of scriptures too?
Dadashri: Simply put, garavata is anywhere where one does not feel like moving away from; it is all garavata. Otherwise, progress must be made everyday.
Questioner: Therefore, on the way to the final destination, one should not stop anywhere, no matter what the location is like
Dadashri: You should not get stuck in any kind of pleasures or happiness that comes along the way. A person will feel good when he reads scriptures. He will feel at peace because the words he reads are the words of a Gnani Purush. If someone acquires a kingdom and becomes stuck in enjoying it; it is all garavata.
People do not understand garavata; they do not understand what it is.
Questioner: We understood very clearly from the example you gave us of the buffalo.
Dadashri: Having heard this example, when people see a water-buffalo sitting in a ditch, they will say, 'Hey, there comes garavata. Dada look at that garavata.' I tell them, 'Yes, you do remember!
No one has defined garavata. The meaning of garavata is not in any books and that is why I have exposed its meaning with an example.
