Aptavani-2
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just like the stench of the sewers in Bombay. Nowadays there
is no limit to the perfumes and oils people use. The worldly
people today have become such that they consume rotten
mangos after spraying them with scents. The Lord has called
this, ‘abhogya bhogata’ (enjoying that which is not meant for
enjoyment); it means people are enjoying the very things that are
not appropriate for the Self. There is one’s own eternal bliss to
be enjoyed, which one does not. How can he? Everywhere you
look, all you hear are the crows and the cockerels, screech and
crowing!
Critical thinkers will consider whether this worldly path is
worthy of pursuing devotedly. If it is not, they would search for
a Gnani Purush and attain the path of liberation from him. There
are as many paths of religion as there are hairs on the head! Out
of these, there is only one path that leads to liberation, and only
a Gnani can show you this path. The path of liberation is not
ornamental and glamorous as all others are; all other paths are
like dream palaces in the sky.
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