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Aptavani-5
do it with open eyes and there is bondage of karmas if you do
it with closed eyes. You are not to do dhyan of kundalini; you
have to do dhyan of the Self. Kundalini is just a tool. You have
to make use of that tool. When one keeps coming back to the
bliss of the Self, it is called mukti (liberation).
Questioner: How can one attain Sankhya Yoga (one of
the six Vedic systems of philosophy)?
Dadashri: Sankhya on its own is like having just one
wing. You cannot fly with that. Therefore, Sankhya and yoga
(to join with) are the two wings that you can fly with. How can
anyone progress without yoga, without mental worship? All
these things have been put in place; how wonderful an
arrangement is it!
Sankhya means that one should know this knowledge:
Knowledge of the body’s dharma, the mind’s dharma, the
intellect’s dharma, and the Self’s dharma. That is called
Sankhya and one cannot attain Sankhya without yoga.
Therefore you need to take the yoga of the one (the guru)
with whose support you can progress. You need to take his
support; you have to depend on him; only then will you
progress.
Questioner: Who is Shiva? Where is He?
Dadashri: Any one that has become the embodiment of
that which helps others attain the ultimate kalyan swaroop, such
a Purush can be called Shiva.
Questioner: What is the difference between nirvichaar
and nirvikalp ?
Dadashri: There is a tremendous difference between the
two. Nirvichaar means a state without any thoughts and
nirvikalp means a state without vikalp (the belief, ‘I am
Chandubhai’). When thoughts end one becomes shunya (zero).
Some mendicants become vichaar shunya (they do not have