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accepted all view-points. To be partial means to be insistent. The path to liberation belongs to those who are void of insistence.
I asked a believer of adwaita whether he was married. He said,“ I am married but we do not live together.” Dadashri,“ You ruined a woman’ s life? What kind of a guru do you have? Did you become adwaita after getting married? How did you become so?” What is a true adwaita? When your conduct does not hurt your wife, your children or anyone else, even in the slightest degree, then you are considered to have the character of dwaita-adwaita. How did one end up in the‘ cave’ of adwaita only? You will pay a heavy price if you got into these paths of namarmunda( shaving of the head when one takes a vow of ascetic. i. e. paths of rituals). You will never find anyone who will tell you the truth in this manner because I do not have any selfinterest. Only he who has no self-interest can tell you things as they are; only he can tell you the absolute truth. All others will flatter you out of their own self-interest and selfishness.
In the worldly adwaita path one tries to purify the ego through renunciation and penance and thus brings it from duality to the level of adwaita( non-duality). In this state the‘ I’ remains as the adwaita state but in fact it is still as,‘ I am Chandulal.’ Or‘ I have renounced this.’ This false belief of‘ I’ never leaves. Therefore, all the assertions are illusionary( mayavi), albeit attractive to those who listen about states of non-duality. These are all stepping stones. These are necessary, until one attains the Self. Ultimately, Self-realization can only occur when one meets the Gnani Purush and he graces the receiver with the experience of the Self.
Moksha through anekant – acceptance of every perspective
What does Vedanta say? They say,“ Self is pure. We are adwaita.” They say and insist that the Self is Adwaita; that is not