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Aptavani-2
Moksha is only a quarter mile away
Dadashri : Is there moksha or not?
Questioner : Yes, I have complete faith in that there is
moksha and therefore there has to be a path to it and someone
who knows that path.
Dadashri : Yes, ‘we’ are the knower of that path. You
will find someone to show you the way to Santa Cruz, but the
path to moksha is very narrow and like a maze, and it is very
rare to find someone to show you that path. If you find such a
person, a bestower of moksha, should you not ask him to show
you the way? ‘This’ is the only cash bank in the world.
I give you moksha; I give you ‘cash’ (the direct
experience of the Self) in your ‘hand’, within an hour. Am I
asking you to keep faith for a month? To those who keep telling
you, “Have faith, have faith,” you can scold them and tell them,
“What if I can’t have faith. Why don’t you say something that
would awaken faith in me?” But what can they do? They can
only give to you what they have in stock. What would you get
if you ask for peace in a shop that only sells anger?
Questioner : Anger. Nothing else.
Dadashri : The Lord has said, “Moksha is only a quarter
of a mile away and Devgati is millions of miles away, but you
have to have a nimit; someone instrumental in taking you there.
Otherwise there is no moksha for you. Only he who has attained
moksha can give you moksha.” Men abandon their wives and
children believing they will be thus free of attachments (maya-
mamata). No, no matter where one goes, he will become