Aptavani-2 467
‘ brain-tonics’, are very detrimental( they increase the negative intellect). In a trade that is pure like the trade of diamonds, what have people started to do? Instead of pure diamonds they substitute them with fake ones. How can anyone measure up to such deceit? Better than these merchants are the grocers who sell adulterated goods, at least they sell the good and the bad mixed together. But here instead of having just one pure article of trade, they have so many fake alternatives. How can we deal with such people? We are not talking about anyone specifically. But if someone has the insight and a capacity to understand, then you can tell them that the Gnani Purush has said for us to be cautious in such matters. It is beneficial if you exercise caution in the right use of the intellect( buddhi), because otherwise it is nothing but hard raudradhyan. We have different varieties of wood. Some woods are soft and some are so hard that they even break the planer used to smooth the wood. If the wood is soft, we can even make matchsticks. But the hard wood is like hard raudradhyan; there is simply no solution.
What is sankalp and vikalp?
Whenever one says,‘ my’ or‘ mine’ it is sankalp. Whenever one says,‘ I’( with the belief of‘ I am Chandulal’) it is vikalp. These two are false projections of the self( aropit bhaav), the non-Self. The Self has no connection with them. This is how the Lord has defined sankalp and vikalp in the language of the vitarags; however the Lord also accepts the worldly definition. The worldly language also needs to exist, does it not? People will become confused if we negate the worldly language. Do you want to know the definitions in the vitarag language or the worldly language?
Questioner: The vitarag language.
Dadashri: This is vitarag language; according to the vitarag language when the belief of‘ I am Chandulal’ goes away, so does everything else. The vikalp of‘ I-ness’ goes away and