Aptavani Shreni 08

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

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Absolute Soul (Parmatma)', you will no longer have that separation and you will have become free from all passions of attachment and abhorrence (vitarag). Free from fear (nirbhaya)! And Greatly Liberated (Mahamukta)!
God (Ishwar) and Absolute God (Parmeshwar) - Ishwar is the one with attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh), he has the ego of doership and it is he who becomes entranced (murchhit) with temporary things; whereas the Parmeshwar is devoid of attachment (vitarag); a non-doer, that only worships its own eternal state. Nevertheless the state of Ishwar is a sacred state (vibhuti-swaroop). The end of adverse internal meditation that hurts oneself (artadhyan), and adverse internal meditation that hurts oneself and others (raudradhyan), is the first link to the state of detachment from attachment and abhorrence (vitaragata).
There is nothing wrong in saying, “I am Chandubhai”, but it should not be so in your belief.
The identification of the milestones on the way to attaining the state of the Absolute Soul (Parmatma), gives the traveler a complete security (reassurance) about the path.
As long as there is the desire for worldly pleasures and the propensity of the tendencies (vruttis) is to wander around in search of worldly pleasures, it is considered an outwardlysoul (bahirmukhi-atma) or ignorant soul (mudhatma). In the ignorant state, the embodied self (jivatma) only has the awareness of its existence (astitva). It believes that all of the attachments of the non-Self body complex (pudgal) are its own, which is the first sign. The second sign is where, from the state of ignorance, one comes into the state of the inner awakened Soul (antaratma dasha), when all the tendencies that were roaming around outwardly, turn inward towards one's home (the Self). When the Gnani Purush, through an instrumental intent (nimit bhaav), gives the ignorant soul (mudhatma) the conviction that the
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