Aptavani-2 473
You hold most of the world’ s gold and money and yet you need pills to fall asleep. What is going on with you? I once met a foreigner scientist with whom I had a conversation. He asked me,“ Where are we at fault in all this?” I told him,“ Your physical science is above normal and so it has become poisonous. Below normality is poison and above normality is poison too. Normality is the real life.”
The path of vitarag says that whatever is happening is really a cause for support for the vitarag path. It gives support to the vitarag path.
Questioner: When we think of it that way, then our thoughts and intentions for the vitarag path multiply by many folds.
Dadashri: Raag-dwesh does not occur to‘ us’.‘ We’ immediately understand what they are doing. What are they doing in the Jain monasteries? They are supporting the vitarag!! What is a vitarag path? It is a path where restlessness is destroyed. The result of satvikta( a guna of prakruti which is encouraged) is absence of restlessness. There should be normality to satvikta. If there is restlessness, then the practice of satvikta has gone beyond limits. That needs to be eradicated. No spiritual effort should lead to any kashays; it should not make one emotional. A person whose restlessness is relatively lesser does not become emotional; he remains in motion. Compared to the total number of karmas such a person will bind over his entire lifetime, a restless person will bind significantly more within just a quarter of an hour. So all this nourishes the vitarag path. Every negative thing that you see, everything that appears negative, is actually maintaining and nourishing the vitarag dharma.
A question arose within me in 1928 when I had gone to watch a movie,“ My goodness! What will these movies do to our culture? What will become of all these people?” Then