Aptavani-2
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Narsinh Mehta that his wife had passed away and so he began
to sing,
‘Bhalu thayu bhangi janjada, sookhe bhajishu Shree Gopal’
‘Indeed it is a blessing that this worldly burden is broken.
Now I can worship the Lord peacefully!’
Is one not obligated to carry out the worldly responsibilities?
But instead people do crazy things, whereas the Gnani Purush
does not fall short in his worldly obligations. Even in ‘our’
worldly dealings, ‘we’ play ‘our’ worldly role very precisely. In
the performance of drama (duties; obligations) such precise
exactness of playing the role defines the Gnani. Whenever and
whatever role ‘we’ have to play, ‘we’ play that role completely
and exactly. When ‘we’ go to work, everyone says, “Here
comes the boss.” So ‘we’ act like a boss. When I go to visit my
mother’s hometown, they call me a nephew and so ‘we’ play
the role of a nephew. In the train if someone asks me, “Who are
you?” I tell them I am a passenger. When ‘we’ come here to
satsang, ‘we’ play the role of a Gnani Purush. ‘We’ play the role
of a wedding guest at a wedding and that of a mourner at a
funeral. These roles are played very precisely. If they fall short,
then ‘we’ are not a Gnani. If a ticket collector on a train comes
to check my ticket, I cannot say, “I am a Gnani Purush, I am
Dada Bhagwan,” can I? There I am a passenger. If I lose the
ticket, I have to tell the ticket master, “I had bought a ticket but
I dropped it somewhere. So fine me if you have to.”
Worshippers are whimsical and absent-minded (dhuni).
The word dhun (repetitive chanting) is derived from the word
dhyani (the meditator). The word dhyani came to be abbreviated
as dhuni. Dhuni is one-sided dhyan i.e. one-sided attention.
When the attention becomes one-sided, it is said that a dhun has
begun and one becomes a dhuni. One becomes engrossed in a
circumstance that arises and keeps going round and round in
that very circumstance and hence he is considered a dhuni. He