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Aptavani-1
‘Chandulal’. He has an ingrained belief that he is also the body
and that is why the poor fellow keeps gawking in the mirror.
But this body does not belong to you; it has taken possession
over you. It is really an unnecessary baggage that has latched
on to you. If a boy is loafing around with a girl, his father will
ask him. ‘How come you found this baggage?’ The son will
retort ‘what do you mean by baggage? She is not a baggage?
What do you know about such matters?’ It is only after some
time when his girlfriend quarrels with him and jilts him for another
boy that he will realize what his father meant by baggage. In the
same way this body has latched on to you. Once you know that
You are not the body, it’s possession and attachment over you
will be broken. Such baggage can never be without betrayal.
What kind of entrapment does this mind, speech and body have
over us and what do we mean by entrapment? It means that
you cannot free yourself from it, even when you want to.
Entrapment is the same thing as a baggage. A person will look
for a way out when he realizes that he is trapped by such a
baggage, but what if he happens to love it? Then it will cling to
him even more and trap him even deeper. Such entrapments are
based on attachment and abhorrence (raag-dwesh). I free you
from your attachment and abhorrence and then this entrapment
(of the body) will gradually disappear. Do you think you need
to get rid of this baggage by hitting it or punishing it? No, you
have to get rid of it through vitaragata (non-attachment) and
ahimsa (non-violence). Your mind, speech and body are an
entrapment. If you become the knower and observer of this
baggage, it will loosen its grip and fall away on its own.
Aspire For Only Liberation
Insist only on liberation. In all other circumstances and
situations maintain complacency. Nothing is poisonous, only your
insistence is poison. I am stating this very candidly : Any path
that requires you to make any effort is a worldly path and will