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Aptavani-2
The speech of the Gnani Purush is the live presence of
Goddess Saraswati (Goddess of speech), and so one will learn
by listening to it continuously. Whoever comes to you as your
nimit, will bring to you the consequences of your mistakes,
which you will have to suffer. All pleasure that you enjoy is
through a nimit and so is the pain that you suffer.
The Gnani Purush has not created any entanglements in
the past life and that is why He continues to receive worldly
comforts and luxuries. You have met a Gnani Purush in this life,
so settle your old mistakes with equanimity and do not create
any new ones, and thereafter you will not have to face them
again and everything will be solved.
The multilayered nature of the faults
You should be able to see all your mistakes; the mistakes
will then say, “We have to leave this home.” Once You see a
mistake, it has no choice but leave. Some mistakes are like
layers of an onion. Onions have eight to ten or so layers, so do
some mistakes. Some mistakes have two to five layers whereas
some have hundreds of layers. That is why ‘we’ have said:
“Mun, vachan, kaaya ni tevo aney tena swabhav ne hu
janu chhoon, ney mara swa-swabhav ne pun ‘hoon’ janu
chhoon.”
“‘I’ am the knower of the habits of the mind, body and
speech and their nature and ‘I’ also know ‘my’ own nature.”
Now, what do we mean by swabhav? It means some
people may have an ‘onion’ with ten layers, some with one
hundred layers and some with a hundred-thousand layers. The
habits of the mind, body and speech can never be changed. We
do not have any objection against habits, because prakruti
cannot be changed but its swabhav (nature) can vanish (a
hundred layered fault to zero layers where the fault is washed).
The more pratikraman one does, the more layers get destroyed.
The layers have no choice but to leave as one ‘does’