Aptavani-6
73
Dadashri: The moment your belief awareness (bhaan)
of ‘I am the doer’ breaks, causes cease to be created. Then
new causes will not arise and the old karmic stock within will
continue to discharge. Now I will explain how the old stock
discharges.
For example, there is an irrigation tank with a forty-mile
long pipe which fills a large pond here in Ahmedabad. When the
pond fills up, you make a phone call to tell them to shut the valve
off to stop the water. They shut off the water, but the water
continues flowing through the pipe into the pond for awhile. This
is because there is still water in the forty mile long pipe that you
need to let drain out, do you not? What is that called? ‘We’ call
that ‘discharge.’ This is how charging of new karma stops for
those who attain Gnan from ‘us.’ In this Gnan, your belief and
awareness of ‘I am doing’ is destroyed; you attain the knowledge
that vyavasthit does everything and that the pure Soul
(Shuddhatma), the Self, is the ‘knower-seer’ (gnata-drashta)
of everything. Whatever happens after that, You simply have to
keep ‘seeing’ everything. Therefore, the entire doer-ship, which
is the cause and the basis for charging new karma, is completely
gone. Thereafter, whatever discharge remains needs to be dealt
with, with equanimity.
Destiny and Vyavasthit
Questioner: Do you consider the force, power or energy
of scientific circumstantial evidences (vyavasthit shakti) an energy
of God, fate or destiny (prarabdha)?
Dadashri: No, scientific circumstantial evidences
(vyavasthit) and fate (prarabdha) have nothing to do with each
other. If a person believes in destiny (prarabdha), then what
will people say to him? They will tell him, ‘Make some effort
(purusharth); do not rely uselessly on prarabdha.’ Therefore,
prarabdha as a support is invalid and lame, whereas vyavasthit
is exactly as it is.