Aptavani-2
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The Law of ‘no laws’
Many people ask me, “Dada, why don’t you open an
ashram?” However a Gnani Purush would not take on the
tedious task of starting an ashram. He would do satsang
wherever he finds a room. He would even do satsang under a
tree. In an ashram, one need rules, kitchen, toilets etc. and then
the worldly complications return. So why would ‘we’ take on
such a problem?
People eat and sleep in an ashram just as they do in their
own homes. Some stay in the ashram to do just that. ‘We’ do
not have an ashram. ‘We’ are the owners of the whole universe
and so all the towns are ours wherever ‘we’ go, are they not?
There are no laws in ‘our’ satsangs. Here there is a ‘no-
law law’. Akram means there are no laws. If there is a group
of people with no laws in this world, it is the group of Dada’s
followers. They do not have any laws. The rest of the people in
the world cannot live without laws. The one living without laws
goes to moksha. In the absence of laws, one becomes sahaj
(natural and spontaneous) and in the presence of laws, he
becomes asahaj (unnatural).
An excess or abundance of anything makes one lose
interest in it. Also where there is a control or restriction of
something, when it is rare one’s chit will go there repeatedly. The
chit will be preoccupied with sugar and when and how to get it,
if it were to be rationed. Control is such a thing that it makes the
mind restless. That is why ‘we’ say to decontrol everything, take
away all laws that control. Elsewhere people are preoccupied
with trying to control their mind, which is precisely why the mind