Aptavani Shreni 08

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Aradhana Trust

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satisfaction from the statue. The scientific significance is forgotten altogether, and grossly misunderstood.
The statues of Brahmaa, Vishnu and Mahesh were installed as symbols to represent the three qualities (gunas) of, pious virtue (sattva), energy-filled worldly activities or passions (rajas), and darkness or sloth (tamas). Instead of getting lost in the alleys of metaphors about Truth, it is best to return home. The Gnani turns those who travel in the wrong direction, with great speed, in the right direction. He does this with the intent (bhaav) of being instrumental (a nimit) in the process and not with the intent of doership (karta bhaav). Truth can only be discovered through non-insistence (niragrahata). Insistence (aagraha) is ego. I am Chandubhai, I am his paternal uncle, I am her maternal uncle... etc. These relative truths prove to be non-truths in the real realm.
The Gnani always opens up the truth of the matter. If a person does not agree with him, the Gnani does not remain sitting on the step with him to convince him. He would say, 'You are correct by your view point', and would let it go. Where there is no insistence about one's absolute truth, there is the fully illuminated state of vitaragata (a state free from attachment and abhorrence) there.
If ignorance is known, then Knowledge (Gnan) is found on the other shoreline. When the Atma is known; the non-Self body complex (pudgal) is also known. And when the pudgal is known; the Atma can be understood. Those who study Vedanta (Hindu scriptures) are preoccupied with bringing the pudgal to a close, and have stopped at 'Neti (na-iti), Neti...' (This is not That...this is not That)! The Absolute (Keval) Gnanis, after first attaining their own Self-form (Atma swaroop), and having said that what remains behind, is the non-Self body complex (pudgal), have attained their liberation. In truth, you do not have to know Self-realization (Atmagnan). You have to have the awareness of
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