Aptavani-5
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Chandubhai’) that binds karmas.
Nirant and Nirakudata
Where the ego is at zero (shunyata), there nirakudata
(the bliss of the Self) is attained. Not even for a second does the
state of nirakudata arise until the ego comes to zero. One may
attain nirant (a state free from botheration and uneasiness;
relative peace). There is a great difference between nirant and
nirakudata.
Questioner: Please explain the difference.
Dadashri: Nirakudata arises after the ego goes away
and nirant occurs when bothersome circumstances are absent.
People look for nirant. Nirakudata is one eighth of the
attribute of the Siddha Lords (the absolute Self).
Questioner: In the complex of the mind-intellect-chit;
the chit has the most shakti (energy and power), does it not?
Dadashri: The chit is mishrachetan (mixture of the Self
and the non-Self) and the others are matter (pudgal) by nature.
The chit is a mixture of knowledge and vision (gnan and
darshan). When it becomes pure one becomes Shuddhatma.
As long as one likes the worldly life, when the chit is wandering
in the worldly life, then the Shuddhatma is not there. The chit
becomes steady when it becomes pure through the splendor of
this Gnan.
The Support of the Ego and the Egoless State
You can demolish a palace that you had built yourself, but
this ‘palace’ (the body complex) has been built by the prakruti
(the non-Self complex). Therefore You need to do everything
after careful and systematic understanding.
The Gnani Purush knows how this ‘palace’ was built;
where the core foundation that supports the entire structure is;
what will cause the first floor to collapse and what will cause the