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Aptavani-5
Dadashri: Yes, but nowhere in the religious books do
they show you a way to become free from worldly entanglements.
They are there for you to do good deeds and be helpful to
others; with them bad deeds and hurtful action will not
overcome you. So they teach you something good. With them
you get worldly happiness, you get food and sustenance; you
will not encounter any obstacles. They keep teaching you to be
good and to be helpful to others. Very rarely is there a Gnani
Purush around. What I am saying, you will not find anywhere,
not even in books, because it (knowledge of the Self) is
indescribable. Only the Gnani Purush has all that. Whatever he
explains, you will grasp through the intellect and if your Self
accepts it; then only believe it.
You will have to shape up in front of the Gnani. There
obstinacy (aadayee) will not do at all and if your worries go
away, if the divisiveness due to differences of opinions
(matbhed) go away, then realize that it is something worth
listening to. But ordinarily not a single matbhed has gone, one’s
meditation (dhyan) has not improved at all, he continues to have
artadhyan (that which hurts the self) and raudradhyan (that
which hurts the self and others), which means that one has not
attained even a word of dharma (religion) and yet he believes
he has been practicing dharma for forty years. For forty years
he has been going to the temples and he remains in upashrayas
(place of worship). But it is all meaningless. He is wasting his
time.
One is full of mistakes and yet he cannot see a single
mistake of his own. After Self-realization your partiality towards
‘Chandubhai’ does not remain; You will begin to ‘see’ his
mistakes. Now tell Me; would you see any mistakes of yours
when you are ‘Chandubhai’? As ‘Chandubhai’, you are the
judge, you are the lawyer and you are also the accused! When
will you ever find a solution to this? How long are you going to
wander around like this? A peculiar and difficult era of this time