Aptavani 09

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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pamper them and take them to moksha. What compassion you must have at the time!
Dadashri: They all look like children. It is exactly like when a child is upset and non-communicative (risavu) but I have to pamper them and make them progress.
Questioner: I have even seen you asking them for forgiveness as you pamper them.
Dadashri: I have to take them to moksha so do I not have to proceed with vigilance? What do they stand to lose? There was a man who said, 'Dadaji, here is your Gnan and here are your books. I am giving them back to you. 'I told him, 'Yes, you did a good thing. I am obliged to you.' He could have thrown the books away. Should I not appreciate the fact that he came to our home to return the books? Is that not a virtuous quality? I am giving you back your Gnan!' he said. Only I would take it back calmly!
Questioner: With calm, and that too with a sense of obligation!
Dadashri: Yes. He is a wise man because he did not throw them away. He did a good thing.
Questioner: It is because you are a Gnani Purush that the other person's obstinacy leaves.
Dadashri: It goes away quickly. Otherwise, it leaves after he takes a lot of beating and through bitter realization. As one suffers bitter experiences, he learns from them and the obstinacy begins to leave. Otherwise, it takes many, many lifetimes.
It should not be so Questioner: For the mahatmas who have taken Gnan, what hinders them more; their obstinacy (aadayee) or their insurmountable inner obstacle (atkan)?
Dadashri: Insurmountable inner obstacle (atkan)! The
obstinacies do not trouble much. As far as obstinacy is concerned, he understands that it is wrong. After attaining this Gnan, the obstinacy gives 'him'a beating. This obstinacy is a karmic stock that was gathered and charged in the past life. That stock is now giving its effect in this life in the form of a beating Therefore, no one likes obstinacy (aadayee). But insurmountable inner obstacle (atkan) leads to more suffering. These faults still give you trouble in spite of having this Gnan. You should not have this stock but once you have brought the stock with you from the market', you cannot deny or avoid it, can you? Whatever stock you have, it is there because you accumulated (puran - created a cause) it in your past life, and now it will discharge (galan - the effect of the cause created). No one is going to accumulate any new stock after Gnan. You have to *purify your old stock through the process of just 'seeing it as it unfolds and let go of it, regardless of what that stock is. Nevertheless from now on, should your internal state not be that of 'how can all the worldly interactions (vyavahar) become cleansed?
'You' are not the obstinate 'one'
I have straightened you out! Have I not? Who was the obstinate one? It was 'Chandulal', your relative-self. 'You' are not Chandulal. Therefore, 'You just have to say, 'I am not this. I am this Shuddhatma.' Then, does your obstinacy not go away? What do you think?
That is why this Akram Vignan (Science) has straightened out all the householders (gruhasthis - married people). In the traditional Kramic path, one has to become a sadhu (ascetic) in order to become straight. The householder who becomes straight has the solution at hand whereas otherwise in order to become straight, he has to become a sadhu. You become aware that this Chandulal' is obstinate and T am straight. Therefore, you have become straight without becoming a sadhu, have you not? Is this Akram Vignan not wonderful!