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Aptavani-4
Questioner: I am Shuddhatma.
Dadashri: Just know, that if ‘I am Shuddhatma’
happens by itself, the awareness (laksha) has been established.
You do not have to make the effort to remember it. And if you
tried to remember, you might not be able to if your memory was
not all that good. Laksha is awakened awareness (jagruti).
And You also have the anubhav. Experience (anubhav),
awareness (laksha) and conviction (pratiti) – You have all these
three. Only after you experience the Self (Atma), can you
perform your actions with equanimity and make progress
(towards absolute Self-realization).
Agiyaras According to Dada
Doing agiyaras (fasting on the eleventh day of the lunar
fortnight) is also ‘scientific’. If a person does Dada’s agiyaras
just once in his life, he can attain salvation. Just once, in Dada’s
name, it should be done.
Questioner: How should I do Dada’s agiyaras?
Dadashri: Do not give any nourishment to the five
gnanendriya (sense organs of knowledge), five karmendriya
(organs of action) and the mind, which makes up the eleventh
component. The eyes (see), ears (hear), mouth (taste), nose
(smell) and touch are sense organs of knowledge (gnanendriya);
the karmendriya are the hands, feet, excretory, etc., and the
eleventh is the mind. Just for one day, You deprive them of their
‘food’. Of course, the ears will hear, but You should not listen
out. You will see with your eyes, but do not get up to look. You
should not do anything the whole day; just starve the mind.
Questioner: Can we move about?
Dadashri: No. You cannot do anything.
Questioner: Can we go to sleep?
Dadashri: You can lie down.