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anukud (favorable, pleasant) kashays; raag kashays. You can
let go of the pleasant and favorable (anukud) ones whenever
you want, but great awareness (jagruti) is required under such
a circumstance. The unfavorable circumstance (pratikud) is
bitter and therefore awareness arises instantly. Favorable
circumstances are sweet.
When I did not have Gnan, I used to remain very
cautious, alert during favorable (anukud) circumstances. In
unfavorable (pratikud) circumstances you will be made aware
without fail; it is the favorable circumstances that make us
wander life after life. If a person sees a snake enter his home,
you will not have to remind him about the snake; he will remain
aware and alert. Therefore, it is very critical to remain awake
and alert in this world. It is favorable circumstances that cause
you to doze off and make mistakes.
Charge of Karmas and Discharge of Karmas
When discharge (of karmas) happens, some events are
very sweet and some are very bitter. In both the circumstances,
the bitter and the sweet, You have to separate, and simply ‘see’
them just like a neighbor. Sweetness and bitterness is the
constant nature of the pudgal (the non-Self complex).
Questioner: Let the discharge take place in the body;
nothing is worth preserving or looking after in it.
Dadashri: There can never be anything worth looking
after, can there? And what you try to take care of cannot be
preserved either! What You need to preserve is Your Self.
Whatever the intent (bhaav) was, at the time of binding
the karmas, is the intent (bhaav) with which those karmas will
discharge. That is its nature (swabhav). That bondage (binding
of karmas) took place in ‘our’ presence, (‘I am the doer, I am
Chandubhai’) but the discharge can take place in our absence
too. Discharge can occur even if there is samvar (no new