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become enamored. Instead, what we see is if a person is involved in renouncing, he keeps cleaning the corner of renunciation and those that practice penance keep cleaning only the corner of penance and nothing else. Moksha is only attained when one cleans all the corners.
Moksha is where there is no obstinacy or insistence Kaviraj sings:
‘ Kyaya na hojo mamat lagare’‘ Let me not be attached to anything anywhere.’
In how many places does insistence( mamat) prevail? In how many places or incidents can you be insistent? If someone is taking away this cup from you, do you not have to insist that he leaves it? You would tell the man,“ Brother, you are taking away this cup but it is mine, it has my name on it.” He would read the name and realize it and would give it back to you. It is good if he gives it back to you, but if he refuses to give it back to you even after reading your name, then you should not become insistent. You can say it as you would say in a drama( a play),“ Brother, my name is on the cup!” and then if he gives it back to you, it is fine, otherwise let go. Do not be insistent there. Vitarags are not such that they will remain silent if someone is taking something away. Vitarag is the one who speaks dramatically( without inner attachment). If someone is kidnapping one’ s daughter, he has to tell him,“ She is my daughter. I have to get her married in a good family.” While saying all that if he remains completely detached then he is a vitarag. But do they not say,“ This person is being stubborn and insistent”( mamatey chadhya)? There is no insistency in the vitarag path as there is in all the other paths. If‘ we’ say dramatically,“ It is dark outside” and you say,“ No, it is light out side”‘ we’ would again tell you,“ Brother, look again. It is still dark outside.”‘ We’ would make a request and if you still do not believe‘ us’,‘ we’ would let go. Indeed if the real world were