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exactly true. The Jains insist that the Self is the doer and the
sufferer but that is not a fact either. In reality, there should be no
insistence of any viewpoint. Atma is dwaitadwaita i.e. it is
neither dwaita nor adwaita. You say there is moksha through
adwaita, but you cannot get rid of even a single vikalp (original
wrong belief is, ‘I am Chandulal,’ and everything that follows are
vikalps) because you have not gone beyond dwaita. Those who
believe in adwaita will have to go beyond dwaita and those who
believe in dwaita will have to go beyond adwaita; that is when
one becomes dwaita-adwaita. One will have to have both the
wings; dwaita as well as adwaita, only then will he be able to fly.
You cannot fly with just one wing. The Lord’s speech is
syadvad (acceptable to all, and absolutely non-violent); it hurts
no living being in the slightest. What is the state where
dwaitadwaita can be together? In the home department, as the
Self, ‘we’ are adwaita and in the matters of the foreign
department, the non-Self, ‘we’ are dwaita, and that is how ‘we’
are dwaitadwaita. As long as this body exists, as long as there
is some worldly expectation, there is a state of dwaitadwaita. If
there were no worldly expectations, then there would be no
need even for the state of dwaitadwaita.
You will not get rid of a single vikalp (wrong belief) by
believing that moksha is attainable only through dwaita or only
through adwaita. People have been wandering around life after
life because of this adwaita; no one has been able to go beyond
this vikalp of adwaita. People have started all kinds of ‘shops’
(religious sects and beliefs) such as adwaita, dwaita,
Vishishtadwaita, Shuddhadwaita etc. Their gurus and the gurus
of their gurus are all wandering around. Only a Gnani Purush
would not start a shop because he is dwaitadwaita. As long as
the Soul has not gone to moksha, what is it like? It is
dwaitadwaita. If you ask an adwaita person, “Who are you?”
He will say, “I am such and such Acharya.” These are just
people who call themselves Acharyas and have opened up