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Aptavani-1
The taste of excitement and joy always comes prior to
the event or coming together of agreeable circumstances. As
long as there is a balance, there will be a taste or sensation of
joy. As you start using up the balance, the taste starts to diminish.
If a pilgrimage was scheduled to start at seven thirty on Sunday
morning, the excitement for it will begin and the balance of joy
will gradually go down from the moment the train leaves on
Sunday morning until there is none left.
The moment circumstances come together, they begin to
move towards dissociation and as soon as they dissociate, there
begins another association of other circumstances. As the
evidences of one set of circumstances arise and begin to
dissociate, the next set of circumstances begin to associate.
Circumstances are for the purpose of arriving at a final
conclusion (about the puzzle of life); they come so that one may
analyze and experience them, but instead people get sidetracked
or become stuck in a corner. They get married and then look
for happiness. Is happiness to be found in a wife? Does it lie
in having a baby, or a father-in-law or a mother-in-law? Where
is it? Why don’t you try to analyze this? People harbor hatred
and abhorrence but they do not bother to analyze the reason
behind them. All worldly relations are relative relations; they are
not real. They exist in order for you to be able to arrive at the
final conclusion. Those who do so experience less raag-dwesh
and become seekers on the path of liberation.
Besides the human life form there is no other life form that
has the privilege of liberation. If one is fortunate enough to
acquire a human life form, fortunate enough to meet with
circumstances for liberation and find the right vehicle, then
liberation is attainable. Liberation is only attainable when such
circumstances come together.
The only pure circumstance is a meeting with a Gnani.