EDITORIAL
Aptavani Series Number Six has one distinguished splendor. On the one hand there are‘ problems’ at every moment in worldly interactions, and on the other hand, one is enmeshed in internal struggles and single-handedly has to solve them. In the contest between these two, how can one get solutions for conflicts that arise day and night? Who can help with it? This very conflict carves away at one’ s insides and his train never leaves the yard of the station( life passes away).
Whoever comes before Dadashri with a list of all the conflicts in his life, Dadashri shows him such a proper solution that he moves out of the conflicts!
Gnan( knowledge of eternal truth) cannot be attained through words, discourses or service; it can be attained with help of the developed vision to understand the meaning of what lies in the Gnani’ s heart, and this is the exclusive right of every individual’ s expression.
How is it possible to know this Vitarag Purush( one free from all worldly attachments) as He is? Until today, there was no such vision, no measure of any kind available to identify Him. That vision can be obtained as a result of one’ s previous life’ s earnings of merit karma( punya) which can remove some of the infinite veils covering the Self. This removal grants one the vision that can identify the Gnani and his state! Do we possess that clear vision? How can the vision be clarified? Only if there was the intention formed life after life, to this point in time, that,‘ I must meet a Gnani Purush who imparts the state of being devoid of all attachments( vitarag state); except for this, I have no desire for anything else.’ Then, as a result of the Gnani’ s grace, there will open up in his vision the knowledge seed of the‘ second day of the moon’( Dadashri uses the simile of a waxing moon for the state of one who has just acquired Self-realization and who will eventually arrive at the‘ Full moon’ state, the absolute knowledge— Keval Gnan state).
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