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Aptavani-8
This is how it is: There is a businessman (sheth), who is a very content man. He owns a mill. Whenever he talks about anything, he makes all his two thousand employees, delighted. That is the way he speaks, and that is how behaves. He possesses a beautiful respect. But what would he be like, when he is tired at the end of the day, and has a drink? He starts feeling intoxication from the brandy, so he becomes oblivious to his own condition. His own awareness grows dim, until he is enclosed in darkness.
Questioner: In the intoxication from the alcohol, he loses all awareness, so how do people lose their spiritual awareness?
Dadashri: In spirituality (adhyatma) it is intoxication from illusion (moha) that does not come down. It is in this state of intoxication, that people talk. All that you are talking about right now, is after you have had a swig of the alcohol; that is moha, intoxication due to illusion. I have removed the intoxication in all these mahatmas. But yours has not been lifted, so you are in a perpetual state of intoxication when you talk. So when this intoxication is lifted, you will understand what this life's purpose is; you will immediately realize it.
Just like the businessman who, after his state of intoxication has lifted, is just the same as he was before! Then he resumes talking nicely! So with him, it is the intoxication from the alcohol; whereas the world is intoxicated with infatuation due to illusion (moha); but a person's alcoholic stupor, can be lifted by dousing a couple of bowls of cold water on him. Here, however, the intoxication of illusion (moha) can never be lifted. Then even if you went to the Himalayas, or anywhere else, wherever you look, you will only come across drunks. They leave their homes, their wives and children, but they do not renounce the hum (I; the ego); their I (hum) never leaves. They are perpetually in, I, I, I. When the I (ego) goes, that is when he becomes the Absolute Soul (Parmatma). 'You' yourself are the Absolute Soul (Parmatma). However, you are not aware of this, because you do not have the awareness (jagruti).
