Aptavani 09

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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One can be an expert in one subject at the most. Instead to be 'ignorant in everything' is best. When one becomes ignorant in everything his life will run smoothly. Because you can hire experts in everything; you can hire a lawyer, a doctor, an accountant, a solicitor, even a manager to run the factory is available for hire!
Once you say, 'I don't have any skills'; you are freed from the race-course. Instead of others calling us unskilled, why not say it ourselves and become free from this world?
What is the outcome of running in a horse race? Today you may be first, but at some time or other you may also be last. So you should refuse even if God were to tempt you to run in a horse race!
Your personality will shine once you have moved away from the horse race. Horse race (competitiveness) and personality cannot exist side by side.
Once the short and sweet course of Akram Vignan is completed, your debt of infinite lifetimes is paid off in one lifetime. Then, there is fearlessness (nirbhayta), non-association (asangata) and non-attachment (vitaragata).
7. Insistence (khench): deceit (kapat) : point-man (the one who leads you astray)
Akram Vignan is the science of Gnani Purush's experiences that is capable of solving all kinds of worldly or spiritual puzzles.
How should life be for the one who has attained Akram Vignan? Life should be without any insistence. When you make a true statement but no one accepts it, there should not be a need to prove it. And if insistence arises, on account of the effect of your baggage of previous karma, then by simply 'seeing' it. You will become free from it.
In the path of liberation, there is no law. Whatever
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happens naturally is correct! No law-law! Otherwise, while making a law, a whole mountain of laws will have to be created. Where there is law, there is no naturalness. Liberation is for the one who becomes natural (sahaj).
To start rivalry is like falling from your own position. If you are true but hold on to the truth; that too is considered as ego. The world's truth is not the absolute truth; it is a relative truth. Why should you hold on to it? The Gnani Purush is completely without insistence.
Know that you are on the correct path if you become the one without any separation due to differences of opinion (matbhed); there should be no hold or insistence anywhere. He who bends to any shape is called straightforward (sarad).
Of all the kashayas of anger, greed, pride, and deceit that obstruct right knowledge and behavior, deceit (kapat) is the toughest. This is because deceit has a sweet face and can't be seen. All kinds of accounts of karma are created due to deceit (kapat). Deceit verily means that the owner (the one having deceit) is unaware of its existence and its operation and for that reason it is difficult to remove it.
To gain advantage in worldly life by pulling others towards your opinion and taking them into your confidence is called deceit (kapat). The person being deceitful does not know or is not aware of his deceitfulness. The constant awareness of 'Except for liberation, I don't want anything at all,' will make deceit leave. Saying this five times every morning will let the awareness arise to defeat deceit.
Due to deceit (kapat) that exists and to finish the game of deceit, a person will win over others by employing craftiness (chaturai). The one who understands what is good for him and what is bad will not enter into this trap of craftiness.
By repeatedly and deeply keeping the intention 'I want to
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