Aptavani-2
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‘This’ is the station that you have arrived at, where you
can get your work (for moksha) done. Therefore eat, drink and
enjoy the circumstances that are directly in front of you and do
not be concerned about the circumstances that are not.
Bliss will arise from within. Instead people are searching
for it externally.
Why does one have thoughts about becoming an ascetic?
It is because he remembers the beatings he has taken in endless
past lives from having a mother-in-law, a father-in-law, other
worldly miseries, a husband, a wife, children etc. That person
will even find a nimit, someone who will tell him there is no
happiness in the worldly life. And that is why he thinks about
taking dixa (diksha; renounce worldly life) and he ends up
doing so.
All your pains will go away in the presence of the Gnani
Purush. All your pains can disappear in front of this Gnani,
provided you do not have any desires. If you have a dressing on
your wounded leg and the Gnani tells you not to remove it and
you still do, then what can anyone do? How can you ignore the
instructions of the Gnani?
Every morning when you get up, recall Dada and make a
firm decision and recite five times, “Let there not be any hurt to
any living being in the world through my mind, speech and body,
even in the slightest degree.” When you make such a firm
decision (nischay) the inner ‘police department’ is thus alerted.
There is a huge army of enemies within. You attain tremendous
energies by reciting this in the presence of the Gnani Purush and
those energies will not ever leave you. Make this decision by
keeping Dada as your witness. Then you should not give any
nourishment to the army of inner kashays even if they arise.
Kantado : displeasure of boredom and fatigue
Dadashri : What is the meaning of kantado (physical