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Aptavani-1
The Gnani does not look at anything except the Pure
Soul, enjoyment of fruits of past karma and dissipation of past
karmas having enjoyed its fruits. Input and output and the Pure
Soul - these encompass everything.
Some people eat all the time and then have diarrhea.
What would happen if their intake were not allowed to be
excreted? They would become restless from distended bellies.
People are not aware that the same (principle) applies to wealth.
Show me one person who has not undergone output. The rivers
too have streams that flow into them and away. I have asked
many doctors why nails grow. They gave me all kinds of
explanations such as too much calcium etc. That is not so. It is
actually output of body’s waste. Food that is used by the body
for building bones is intake and output is taking place through
the growth of nails. As a rule what ever is of no use, is discarded.
Similarly there is a continuous inflow-outflow or charging-
discharging of atoms that takes place in this body. The atoms
that were present in the body at age five would no longer be
there at age twenty-five. There is a constant inflow of new
atoms and outflow of the old ones.
People charge demerit (paap) karmas, but when those
karmas come forth to give effect, they will be very sorry; they
will feel like they are on fire. And when they charge merit
karmas (punya), they will realize how sweet the rewards are
when those karmas give their effect. So think very hard and be
judicious before creating any kind of karma and beware of the
kind of effects your actions will render. Be very careful when
you are charging demerit karma, such as when you try to increase
your wealth by cheating others. Bear in mind that the
consequences of your actions are inevitable. Even if you put
your money in the bank, that money too will eventually go.
Whatever demerit karmas you create while trying to be rich, the
adverse negative meditation (raudra dhyan) that occurs in the