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of non-dualism (adwaita). This worldly life (sansar) is dualistic by nature. After you have had the experience of it, you can then have the experience of the non-dualism. When you no longer have disagreements with your wife, when you do not have disagreements with your father, and you do not have quarrels with anyone; if you have such an experience, then you will have the experience of non-dualism (adwaita). Only he that has the experience of dualism (dwaita), can have the experience of non-dualism (adwaita).
What does adwaita mean? That is what one needs to know! All of this, is for the purpose of knowing the Atma. If you do not know the Atma, then you will just carry on wandering! And those who exist in duality (dwandva), are all in limbo (wandering about)! Those who are in duality, cannot be considered non-dualistic (adwaita). What does duality mean? It means that those who have good-bad, advantage-disadvantage, and that kind of duality, cannot be considered non-dualistic. Become Non-Dualistic: Rise Above Duality!
Non-dualism (adwaita) is the name for someone that has become dwandvatita (transcended duality). Non-dualism is not something fake. It is because dualism exists, that non-dualism is able to exist. On what basis does it exist?
Questioner: It exists on the basis of dualism.
Dadashri: Yes, so therefore it is a relative thing, and a relative thing can never become real. It is because of dualism, that it remains non-dualism, it is however, a relative thing. And a relative thing can never become real. And the Atma is something that is real. So when one talks about non-dualism (adwaita), he is just talking big, but there is no substance in what he says. If he is non-dualistic (adwaita), then we should verify it by asking him, 'Sir, tell us whether or not you are beyond duality (dwandvatita)', and if he says, 'We are beyond duality', you should believe it as correct.
