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Aptavani-4
Questioner: To digest my food, I have to move about,
and walk around.
Dadashri: Those actions are simply instrumental (nimit)
for digestion. And when you are asleep, your breathing
continues well, so that you wake up feeling refreshed. Although
you are sleeping, the right amounts of digestive juices, bile, etc.,
are being released for digestion. Who goes in there to regulate
them? Just as everything runs automatically within the body,
everything on the outside also runs automatically. All you have to
do is to make a naimitik (instrumental; as one of the evidences)
effort. As it is, everything is arranged according to scientific
circumstantial evidence (vyavasthit).
From birth, one brings all of one’s suffering, accolades
and insults, repute, ill-repute, etc., but it is the ego that is the
problem. A person believes himself to be the ‘doer’ of any
activity that is being done. Is there anything in all of this that has
to be done? One only has to know the Atma (the Self) in all
this. When you eat something, the internal activities take place
naturally. In the same way, that which occurs externally, also
happens naturally. How much food, how many steps, how to
walk, how much to walk, all happens by itself. When a person
does the egoism; he is simply being too smart when he believes
that he is doing the purusharth. Without first becoming the
Purush (the Self), the purusharth cannot be done. The Gnani
Purush must first instill in you, the awareness of the alakh (the
unknowable; imperceptible): the Self.
In Mumbai, people’s purusharth is their determination to
do this and to do that! Mumbai is still the same. So many
businessmen have died there as a result of their arrogance. As
long as Mumbai prospers, no one can do anything. No one has
the power to stop Mumbai’s prosperity; nor to prevent its
destruction. While you people have set out to do the purusharth!!
You are nothing but a small fish in a big pond.