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Aptavani-2
Raag - Dwesh : Attachment - Abhorrence
Questioner : What is attachment (raag)?
Dadashri : To believe and claim to be that, which you
are not, is the biggest attachment of all. That verily is the origin
of attachment; attachment that gives rise to all other attachments.
To say, ‘I am Chandulal’ is verily the attachment (raag), and
once this attachment breaks, all others will too. The one who
attains the awareness (laksha), ‘I am a pure Soul’ has broken
all worldly attachments. The one who has the beliefs, ‘I am an
acharya (master priest), I am a collector, I am a father’, etc., for
him all attachments remain. These attachments (raag) and their
consequences are so alive that even the slightest unpleasant
words provoke a severe inner reaction of repulsion (dwesh).
One has not understood the message of the vitarag Lord. The
awareness ‘I am Chandulal’ leads to all kinds of attachments
and the arising of the awareness of, ‘I am Shuddhatma’ is not
attachment. It is the awareness that the vitarag Lord too has.
The Self, Shuddhatma is vitarag (without attachment) and with
this awareness, all the external relative (the non-self) gets
washed off (dissolves). Who is vitarag? ‘I am pure Soul’ or
remembering ‘Dada’ are both awareness of the vitarag. Who is
vitarag? One who has manifested within the Gnani is the
absolute vitarag, and the awareness (laksha) that the Gnani has
given, is the awareness of the absolute vitarag Lord. This most
extraordinary state has been given to you!
Questioner : I experience a lot of feelings of attachment
(raag) towards my son, what is that?
Dadashri : Attachment is not at all an attribute of the Self