Aptavani-2
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However, there is no purusharth (real inner effort) on his part.
Purusharth begins only after one attains the Self. After Gnan one
comes to the state of the Self and then all clash and conflict
begin to leave. Otherwise, when you get rid of one inner conflict
(kashaya), four more take its place. If you do not guard against
this, their whole army will move in. When are you able to guard
against them? It is when you become the Self. An entire army
that causes clash is present within you. If you do not have a
‘security guard’, all the ‘thieves’ will take over within.
If clash within (kalushit bhaav) does not decrease day by
day, beastliness will prevail, not humanity.
What is the definition of worthiness of worldly worship
and reverence (lokpujya)? In this era of the current time cycle,
a status which people do not condemn (loknindya), the Lord
calls this worthy of worship (lokpujya). The Lord was very wise
about this, His disciples however are not; they do not have the
awareness that they should not let anything tarnish their praise
worthy status which the Lord has thus defined. Otherwise
persons truly worthy of worship and reverence are very rare;
there may be hardly two or three in the whole world. The
disciples today worship and respect their gurus the way they do
a policeman. They talk behind the guru’s back and say their guru
is not even worth talking about! Krupaludev, Shrimad Rajchandra
was truly worthy of worship by the world (lokpujya). Lokpujya
status (gotra) is the highest of all status. The Lord was lokpujya.
Ask for forgiveness and cleanse away whatever traits you have
that beget criticism (loknindya).
What is the definition of God? It is people around him
with similar viewpoint as his, who see only him as God. People
with similar viewpoint as Jesus will see Jesus as God; if we were
to show them Lord Mahavir; they would not accept Mahavir as
God.
Even a ‘Gnani Purush’ is accepted as God by people.