Aptavani-5 49
Questioner: What if they want to attain the knowledge of the Self?
Dadashri: They will gradually come across such a circumstance, but then something else may get into their heart for which they will suffer. Then the‘ invention’ will start again. Why did this‘ invention’ start for Me? It started because I took a lot of beating. I have climbed out of such deep ravines; I have climbed over such mountaintops, life after life. I do not want any worldly thing at all. You too have climbed high in this world. Others too have climbed high but they do not have the ability to remain as the Knower-Seer; they do not have the ability of closely‘ seeing’( nirikshan) the self. They are all engrossed in eating and drinking, in physical and mental fun. That is why they forget that other spiritual experience.‘ Our’ nirikshan is of many lifetimes!
So where do all the energies of the mind, body and speech go? They continue to get used up in the gross( sthool, that which is interacting in worldly things). They get used up in things a laborer can do. Now, what will‘ My’ value be if‘ my’ energies were to get used up in things like gardening? Just imagine how much more work can be accomplished in an hour? When energy is used in the gross, then‘ invention’ in the subtle stops. When one becomes altruistic and serves others, his interest will continue to develop in that direction. Wherever he goes he will be welcomed with respect. So his inner‘ invention’ halts. When does‘ invention’ occur? It will go on the whole night when someone whacks you on the head a few times!
Questioner: Dada, why is it that the spiritual development of the good, straightforward, simple and benevolent people is not as fast as that of the bad people?
Dadashri: Bad people can never develop. The badness in bad people increases and as a result they take a lot of beating and that is when their‘ invention’ starts. When that happens a