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Aptavani-5
Questioner: There is some farming in our path too, is
there not? Do we not do the arati (singing hymns with lit lamps)
also?
Dadashri: How can there be any farming in our path?
One himself (khud, the self) has become God (Khuda, the
Self)! The arati You do is the arati of the (your own) Self; here
every person is doing the arati of the Self within. The spiritual
songs (pados) you sing here, is really Your own bhakti
(devotional singing) offered to your own Self. Besides the Self
there is nothing relative here.
Questioner: Who is doing the kirtan bhakti (devotional
singing) of the Self?
Dadashri: One himself.
Questioner: What part is that?
Dadashri: It is the pragnya shakti (the liberating energy
of the Self) that is doing it.
Questioner: It is not agnya (ignorance), is it?
Dadashri: No, agnya can never remain. As long as
ignorance (agnya) is there, the worldly life will arise. That which
gives advice related to the worldly life is the agnya shakti (the
energy of ignorance).
Those who are not aware that we do kirtan bhakti
(devotional chanting of our own Self), will miss out, will they
not? You will not miss once You know this. The worship people
do here is not A. M. Patel’s worship; it is of ‘Dada Bhagwan.’
And that ‘Dada Bhagwan’ is sitting within everyone, not just in
me. He is within you too and this is His worship. The arati and
everything else is only His, and that is verily why everyone
experiences bliss (anand). Along with you, I too bow down to
‘Dada’ withi