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Aptavani-5
anyone.
Your humility ‘here’ (in front of the Gnani Purush) will
bring you both reward of worldly benefits (abhyudaya) and
aanushangik (related to the Self, moksha). If one shows
humility to his guru when he is in front of him, but starts
criticizing him after he leaves, then everything goes to waste.
Do not criticize or slander the one to whom you express
humility and if you want to criticize him then do not express
humility towards him. There is no meaning in doing that, is
there?
Here there is nothing left for you to do, is there? The
reason I tell you all not to stand up here is because nowadays
people have so much trouble with their legs and knees. They are
constantly on the run, the whole day long. They are exhausted
going up and down the stairs of the railway bridges! So on top
of that, if ‘we’ were to tell you to stand up and sit down, what
can we attain? Instead, why don’t you sit comfortably and at
ease? You are all free to sit in any manner you choose.
Everything, your reverence for Dada, has reached Dada. This
Dada only sees your inner intent and not your external conduct
or actions.
Progression of Understanding
Questioner: In order not to see the other person at fault,
deal with him with the understanding that his prakruti (non-Self
complex) is the doer.
Dadashri: That is the understanding and talk of the first
stage but in the ultimate understanding, none of this happens.
The Self is merely the Knower of this and nothing else. But
instead one takes it as, ‘he did this, he is the doer for sure.’ It
is just a wrong belief.
Questioner: His only child, his son, was killed…
Dadashri: He never dies. The main ‘thing’ the Self, the