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Aptavani-8
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Even if some day, he spoke just two words, you would know instantly. And he would even have calmed five of his disciples; his difference of opinion (matbhed) would be gone.
The fact is that the Atma cannot be easily found. Man does not have the tools (sadhan) to know chetan!
Questioner: So should a person not make an effort to know it?
Dadashri: The one trying, has no power whatsoever in his hands! To you, it seems that 'I am running everything. I am the one who goes to sleep. I am the one who gets up'. You feel, 'I am the one who makes these efforts’, when all of it is controlled by something else (par-satta). And you believe that it is in your control (satta).
You can only find chetan through divine vision (divya chakshu), and divine vision can only be attained through the grace of the Gnani Purush!
The fact is that right now you have a deluded vision (mithya drashti). A deluded vision (mithya darshan) means that it only shows you the things that are impermanent (vinashi), and not the things that are permanent (avinashi). So you would not be able to see the chetan at all! Do you understand that?
Questioner: Is the experience (anubhav) of the Atma, the enlightened view (samyak darshan) itself?
Dadashri: Kashays (anger, pride, deceit and greed) become suppressed (upsham). There are absolutely no kashays, and for forty-eight minutes, you see (experience) bliss (anand), and that is called the enlightened vision (samyak darshan). Angerpride-deceit-greed (kashays) will be suppressed, and that too, for forty-eight minutes, and not for forty-nine minutes.
Questioner: What is the suppression (upsham) of angerpride-deceit-greed (kashays) dependent on?
