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Svacchand is to act only according to your own will. If
svacchand is halted, liberation is at hand. You have practiced
religion and meditation as per your own intellectual understanding
and it has and it will be all in vain. To carry on wantonly self-
guided by your own whim in spiritual matters is to become
bound to the worldly life for infinite life cycles. In fact it is better
that you do not come to this level of svachhand. It is better that
you remain where you are. If you do svachhand after meeting
The Gnani, you will fall into endless cycles of births and deaths.
You can liberate yourself if you get rid of your svacchand,
however svachhand is not something that you will be able to get
rid of on your own. You will have to recognize svacchand.
Whatever you do is nothing but svacchand. Krupalu Dev
(Shrimad Rajchandra) has said :
“Whatever is done without awareness of the living embodiment
of Omniscience, is all binding. This is what I utter from the core
of my heart.”
Whatever you do and no matter how little, it is bondage
and that is verily svacchand itself. Whether you go to a religious
discourse or become a monk, whether you practice penance or
renunciation and read scriptures, it is all svacchand. Before you
do anything, you should consult the Gnani Purush, otherwise it
is considered svacchand and it will cause bondage.
To believe, ‘I am Chandubhai’, is svacchand. Once this
belief is removed, there is no need for penance, renunciation or
scriptures. It is because this svacchand has been kept alive that
you have not achieved liberation. Once you get rid of it, you
can achieve liberation within an hour.
Svacchand means blind passion. Believing your relative
self to be your real Self is itself svacchand. And this svachaand
will not let you achieve liberation for endless births. Once it is