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to you (savvam tiviheyn vosariyami)?’ So, these are all
cultured pearls.
Such cultured diksha causes bondage, not liberation.
When ‘we’ give you diksha (the Self), it completely cures all
worldly diseases. ‘We’ give you the Self directly in the palm of
your hands; ‘we’ give you diksha and make you dikshit- a
Gnani. People understand diksha in their own language, but that
is not diksha. However, people will not believe you if you tell
them this because whatever the language they use, their
meanings are based on that particular language. That is the
prevalent language. We have to let it be.
Nowadays the goods you buy are adulterated with other
things. For every 8 pennies worth of wheat, you will get 8
pennies worth of grit and dirt. The betel nut you buy nowadays,
not the whole ones but the ones cut into small pieces are coated
with flavoring and sugar. Well they soak the good betel nuts and
the rotten ones together. People have no sense whether they
want to eat the betel nut or some flavoring. If you want
sweetness, eat sweets. One eats the betel nut for its original
taste. But they would not let you have the real thing. Foolish
people get to eat adulterated things and smart people get the
good things. That is why ‘we’ have said that you should be
thankful to the fools; because of them you get the real thing.
Why do I call them fools? It is because they pay for adulterated
goods.
Subtle talks of the vitarags
Today neither diksha nor mahavrats exist. Even anuvrats
are non-existent. The real have been replaced by cultured ones.
What is a vow (vrat)? A vow is that which becomes natural in
one’s conduct (varte aene vrat kahevay). It is where there is
no memory of, ‘What has been renounced and what is to be
renounced.’ If ‘This has been renounced, and that has been
renounced,’ remains in one’s memory, it is a great danger.