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Aptavani-5
second floor to cave in. The Gnani knows all that.
The world exists and is sustained, because of support of
the belief that ‘I am Chandubhai’. Now that You are a
Shuddhatma; because of, ‘I am Shuddhatma’, the support for,
‘I am Chandubhai’, is no longer there; hence everything will
collapse or leave. This thing in my hand is held up because of
the support of the hand; if I move the hand away, it will fall.
Otherwise, it will not leave even if you tried.
Questioner: How can one become free from the
tendencies (vruttis) that are attached to the support?
Dadashri: Does the awareness (laksha) of ‘I am
Shuddhatma’ remain with you?
Questioner: Yes.
Dadashri: Then there is no support (adhaar). No
tendencies remain. Whatever tendencies there are, they are of
the one without support (‘Chandubhai’), not the one with
support (the Self). From the moment the support, by the one
giving support, leaves; all those tendencies (vruttis) are with the
one who has become supportless (niradhaar). You should have
this in Your awareness, that those tendencies are not Yours.
There is no such thing as tendency in You. After becoming the
Self, Your tendencies are that of the Self (nijvrutti), and they
remain in the Self.
The Non-Doer and the Mind
When the self becomes the Self (Shuddhatma), You
become the non-doer (akarta). Then the tubers of the mind
will continue to be destroyed. As the tubers of the mind
sprout, it will give rise to another mind, if one becomes the
doer (karta). The tubers of the mind will continue to sprout
even when You are the non-doer. Even when the mind is
restless, it continues to discharge but You should remain in
your upayog (applied awareness as the Self), and ‘see’ what