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me.” The rock has always been there and the rock would say,
“You foolish man, you bumped into me. I have always been in
this place. You are blind for running into me.” The rock is
correct! Such is the nature of this world so how can anyone find
liberation even if he is looking for it? The moksha that vitarags
have shown us is the easiest and the most straightforward of all.
One would attain moksha if he were to know the vitarag with
a pure heart. But people have no understanding of the vitarags
and they go to the Lord pleading, “We do not have son.” Then
they go and get a cradle for the Lord! The fools! You ask
vitarag Lords for a son? Would they even meddle in such things?
If they did, how could we call them vitarags? If you have to ask
vitarag Lords for anything, ask for moksha. Ask for moksha and
you will receive it, but are you likely to receive anything worldly
from them?
Here you will get to hear many new things. Elsewhere in
the relative world, whatever you hear refers to the path which
requires sadhan (tools- rituals, scriptures and guides) to attain
the ultimate path. This is the sadhya path, which means that one
already attains what he was seeking, namely the Self first. In this
path one does not have to perform any rituals or undergo
penance to realize the Self. The Self is realized first and then the
rest. For endless lives one has protected the tools (sadhan) and
have proceeded to meditate (dhyan) without even deciding upon
the goal (dhyeya). One is able to do true dhyan only when he
becomes the dhyata (the observer, the Self). If ‘we’ ask you,
“Who are you?” you will reply, “I am a magistrate.” Hey you!
Were you not the meditator (dhyata) while you were meditating
(in dhyan)? Were you the magistrate at that time? One can only
become a dhyata, meditator, when the entire world is forgotten.
Here his dhyan is, ‘I am a magistrate,’ so how can he ever
decide on the goal (the Self)? Here one has the dhyeya of going
to Vadodara, and then he decides to become the dhyata, the
meditator. How can this help? This is all a sense oriented