Aptavani-5
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record player, which also ‘speaks’.
Questioner: Explain that to me, please.
Dadashri: The one who is speaking is not ‘Dada
Bhagwan’. It is the original taped record that is doing the talking.
This is the Science of Akram; the stepless, short cut path to the
knowledge of the Self. This is something that has never been
heard before.
Hearing is a dharma (intrinsic function, nature) of the ear.
Therefore you can say that a deaf person’s ears are not in their
dharma.
Now what is the dharma of the eyes?
Questioner: It is to see.
Dadashri: Yes, it is not the Soul’s dharma to see all this.
What is the dharma of the nose?
Questioner: To smell.
Dadashri: What is the dharma of the tongue?
Questioner: To taste.
Dadashri: It will know immediately when you put
something bitter on it. Therefore these five sense organs are in
their dharma. These are the sense organs that convey information;
knowledge (gnanendriya) and they are all in their dharma.
They are dravyendriya (external, visible sense organs) and
bhavendriya (inner invisible sense organs). The bhavendriya
will remain even after the dravyendriya have been exhausted.
Therefore both the five gnanendriyas, and bhavendriya are in
their own dharma.
Is the mind (mun) in its own dharma, or not?
Questioner: I do not understand that.
Dadashri: The mind is always thinking. When a whole