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the Atma. A state of detachment (vitaragata) should arise within you; attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh) should not occur at all. Attachment and abhorrence will not stop through practice. Even if you keep practicing to stop them, it is never possible to stop them from occurring. The state of the detached one (the Vitarag) who is free from attachment and abhorrence (raag and dwesh) is a vision (drashti)! At present, your vision is filled with attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh); whereas ‘ours' is a detached vision (vitarag drashti). Therefore, the difference is only a matter of vision. And the Gnani Purush can change that vision in no time. After that, you will experience freedom (mukti). Without a Change in Vision, Everything Is
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Questioner: So I was asking that the vision of attachmentabhorrence goes away, but what about the tendencies (vrutti) that still remain?
Dadashri: How can the vision (drashti) go away? No, there is no way that the vision can go away. The tendencies and inclinations (vrutti) may go away, but the vision will not. It is on account of the vision (drashti) that the entire world has become suppressed. What vision? And the answer is: the wrong vision. It cannot see things as they are. Therefore, one becomes engulfed (tanmayakar), because he cannot see it the way it is. The tendencies all break and new ones come up. But as long as the vision (drashti) does not change, the tendencies (vrutti) will keep changing. You do not benefit from that. Alas! You become a hermit; you do not even remember the sweet and sour food you eat. Those tendencies are broken, and even then, without changing the vision, nothing is accomplished.
Over here, there are so many of these saints and holy men (sant) who, if we sit next to them, ah! We feel such a sense of joy (anand)! You feel, gosh! Imagine what this holy person must be like! That is because the nature of ice, is that it always gives
