such fatigue? Many great teachers, priests, saints, ascetics and
men of glory have not been without this feeling of tedium. Only
the Gnani Purush does not have to experience tedium! One
should deal with situations of mental and physical fatigue with
equanimity, instead people try to look for ways to remove it or
escape it. Arey! Going to the cinema, drama or doing other
things makes one regress spiritually and in fact, the tedium is not
removed, it is merely pushed aside for a little while only to return
with double the force. This is because karma that has come into
existence to give result will not spare anyone; one has no choice
but experience its effects.
The difference between people’s understanding of
raag-dwesh (attachment-abhorrence) and the Vitarag’s
understanding of the same is comparable to the difference
between milk and buttermilk. ‘I am Chandulal’ is attachment
(raag). To falsely project one’s self where one is not, is raag.
The one who realizes ‘I am Shuddhatma (I am a pure Soul)’ has
broken all attachments.
In their common understanding when people say ‘I have
a lot of attachment towards this person or that person’, it is not
correct. In fact, the Soul does not have the attribute of
attachment. What appears to be attachment is really attraction of
the parmanus (sub-atomic particles that cannot be further
divided) and what appears to be dwesh (abhorrence), is in fact
repulsion between the sub-atomic particles. This is all the
ingenuity of the pudgal, the non-self complex, but one believes
that attachment and abhorrence are occurring to ‘me’ and hence
one inadvertently declares the Soul as having the attributes of
attachment and abhorrence. The Soul is always vitaragi (without
attachment) and will always remain as one.
‘Love for agnan (ignorance) is raag and love for Gnan
(enlightenment) is Vitarag.”
- Dadashri
The foundation of this world is based on vengeance
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