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Aptavani-2
Dadashri : What is the point of taking a bath everyday
if you cannot clean the dirt off your body? What is the point of
attending spiritual discourse everyday when one cannot get rid
of the filth of the mind, speech and intellect? If his miserable
condition is not alleviated, then what good is all that? No matter
how much the priest knows, what good is it to you if your
misery is not reduced? That darshan which removes our misery
is a worthy darshan, none else. If he has fifty bungalows and you
do his darshan every day and you do not get even a hut to live
in, what is the use of doing his darshan daily? If doing the
Maharaj’s darshan does not reduce your misery, then imagine
how miserable he must be himself!
Have you seen a bull working in an oil mill? The bull has
blinders over his eyes and as it walks round and round turning
the wheel of the oil mill, it thinks, “I have walked a lot,” but
when the mill owner removes the blinders, the bull realizes that
it is exactly where it started. That is exactly what happens to
people in their religious efforts; they simply waste their effort.
Until you attain exact Gnan, all your efforts go to waste. If I did
not know my way to the railway station, I would get lost and
even if I walk four times the distance, I would not get anywhere.
Here one makes a mistake in simply going to the railway station,
but how many such mistakes does one make in the search of the
real path? So should you not inquire? You should look for
another path if your current path does not satisfy you. There is
only one path to moksha and, it is complicated like a maze. All
other paths are countless in numbers and they are ‘ornamental’;
they simply look attractive. The path to moksha however, can
only be attained from a person who has attained it himself. One
should only inquire about moksha from such a person. Such a
person must be absolutely selfless.
There should never be business in religion
Those who practice renunciation and teach others to do