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to deliberately lose that path, it only happens unknowingly. No one will deliberately lose the path of liberation. The deception that deludes and throws one
off the track of liberation If you get into an argument with someone in the presence of a third person, when you meet that third person again, would you not ask him what the other person you argued with was saying about you after you left?
Questioner: Yes, that happens. What is it called?
Dadashri: Such a thing will completely throw you off the path of liberation. 'What was he saying about me?' if such need to know remains within, it can ruin your path of liberation.
Questioner: How come? Why is that so? Dadashri: It is a very treacherous and an awfully wrong
Dadashri: Oh, leave alone all talks of lowering infatuation (aasakti), this goes way beyond aasakti and it destroys people. All the ascetics (bavas) have been destroyed by their attitude of 'What is it to me?' 'What do I care?' 'What is it to me?' You can never say this.
'What do I care?' means nispruha - to be without inclination. You either become spruhi (with inclination) or become like the Gnani Purush, who is nispruhi - free from inclination where the body is concerned - but has spruha - complete inclination for the Self. So become saspruhi-nispruhi, meaning inclined towards the Self and disinclined towards the non-Self. So remain as one or the other. But do not become completely disinclined (nispruha) without realizing the Self, otherwise you will become like a stone. You cannot say, 'What do I care?
To say 'what do I care?' is the entrapment of the intellect (buddhi) What will the intellect not trap one in? And when one says, 'what do I care?'. it is the intellect that traps him into taking that approach. Nevertheless, for some people, this attitude has become natural and a spontaneous (sahaj) trait and when they say 'what do I care?' they speak without their intellect, without thinking. If they speak through the medium of their intellect, then it is not a spontaneous, (sahaj) statement.
So what should the person for whom this has become a spontaneous trait do? He still has to get out of it. That is why 'we' change the main line here. Thereafter 'we' show him which line he should remain on. The other line is useless; it was completely wrong and so you have to get rid of it. 'We put in another 'railway line' for you so you can keep your train on that line
Questioner: We have to remain very clear and sure from within, that we do not miss this path of liberation
Dadashri: Do not lose your path. And it is not possible
path.
Questioner: But in that situation which element (tattva) is playing a role?
Dadashri: Why do you have to ask such a question? Is one a thief (did something wrong) that he needs to ask, 'what he was talking about me?' He has no faith in himself that is why he has to ask someone, 'what was he saying about me, after I left?'
Do I ever keep a watch behind me asking, 'what was he saying behind my back?' I do not have any problems regardless of what he says about me. I am unaffected even if he were to say it right to my face. A person asks this because there is kapat (deceit) within.
Questioner: Is that also called kapat (deceit)?
Dadashri: Yes, That is why he is asking the third person, 'what was he saying after I left?'
