Aptavani-5
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Dadashri: Right conduct (samyak charitra) is visible to
others whereas absolute conduct (keval charitra) is not. It
cannot be experienced through the senses; it is only experienced
through Gnan.
Questioner: What is the difference between faith
(shraddha), and vision (darshan) or understanding?
Dadashri: Darshan is a higher state than faith (shraddha).
Faith can even turn into non-faith (ashraddha). If you have faith
in someone, that faith may turn; you can even lose faith in that
same person, but the darshan will not turn or change. You need
someone (a Gnani) to change the darshan. Does anyone’s
deluded vision (mithya darshan) change? If a person has faith
in his guru for six months, that faith may vanish. Actually that is
not even faith; it is trust (vishvas).
Questioner: What is the difference between faith
(shraddha) and trust (vishvas)?
Dadashri: Faith (shraddha) is a state lower than vision
(darshan), but it is a steady state; it will not shake. But people
have taken its meaning to a very low level. A guru maharaj
may ask you to have faith in him for six months, but how can
you if you do not have faith in him to begin with? ‘Sir, I am
trying to make the “stamp” stick, but it will not stick! Tell me
something that will help establish my faith in you.’ Faith is not
something you keep or establish. Faith has to come on its own.
Sooj (intuition, insight) that occurs within is darshan.
Some people have more sooj and some do not have any at all.
Sooj is a natural gift. It is not mediated through the ego. Each
person has sooj according to his or her own capacity. Even a
small child has sooj.
Shops of Religion
Questioner: Religion and religious pursuits of many kinds
exist and all of them claim that their religion is right, so whom