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Aptavani-5 111 sahaj (natural and spontaneous)? Dadashri: Sahaj means that even if someone were to do something to your body, You would not have attachment or abhorrence (raag or dwesh). Just look at ‘us’ and understand what sahaj is. Sahaj means to be in one’s own state, to be natural, to not be in the state of the non-Self. It is to have no sense of ‘I am’ in the relative. Questioner: When does one become sahaj (natural and spontaneous)? Dadashri: When this Gnan advances with producing results and karmas become few, one progressively becomes sahaj. At the moment you are becoming natural a little at a time and then you will become completely sahaj (natural and spontaneous). As you become free of the dehadhyas, meaning free from the belief, ‘I am this body’, you move towards naturalness (sahajata). However natural You become, that is how much You become one with the Self. Are you convinced that you have attained this path? Questioner: Yes. Dadashri: Whoever is convinced about this will attain liberation. Everything will come to an end; thoughts will end, knowledge will end. Everything has an end, but ignorance has no end. The one who says that the drashti (vision) has fallen upon the One ‘seeing’ (drashta); is very far from the Drashta (the Self). It will take them a very long time to attain that state. We have attained the Drashta state (the Self). What the world is searching for, we have in our hands. Now our job is to see how to make use of the pure applied awareness (shuddha upayog) as the Self. That is called real spiritual endeavour (purusharth). When you leave home and You apply shuddha upayog