Aptavani-1
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A healthy person is more stable.
Vishayas do not cause diseases. But only when greed
enters into vishayas, does it invite disease.. People blame vishaya.
Why condemn vishaya? Blame the greed for it. Vishaya is not
harmful but the greed for it is. It is considered greed when
people insist that their meal be cooked a certain way and that
they cannot do without certain ingredients in their food. Because
there is greed, it is a vishaya and that is the very disease. Anger,
pride, attachment and greed are the very things that cause
disease.
When you drink tea after eating something sweet, do you
not find it tasteless? Do you not do injustice to the tea? Tea is
sweet but why do you not taste the sweetness? It is because
you ate something sweet before drinking tea. Similarly, I give
you Gnan, which has the sweetest taste. Thereafter all sensual
pleasures of the world, despite being sweet, will taste bitter.
There is a saying that even rice pudding tastes bitter when one
has malaria. It tastes bitter because the mouth becomes bitter,
so how can one blame the rice pudding? Similarly, through my
Akram Gnan, as your ‘temperature’ of the temptations falls,
you will find that the vishayas of the whole world will gradually
become tasteless. Loss of taste in vishayas is a gauge that
measures one’s fever for vishayas.
Remove the above linear line
Vishayas gradually lose their interest and appeal even in
the Kramic Path, but they are rendered tasteless through the
ego and therefore they will confront the seeker again. But this
is not so in my Akram Path. In the midst of the ocean of
vishayas, I remain nirvishayee. Nirvishayee is a state like that of
the lotus growing in the lake and yet it remains untouched by the
water. I have given up ownership of this body, so nothing touches
me or troubles me. I have taken away the sense of ownership