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Aptavani-6
are those kashays that give you happiness (sukh)?
Questioner: It is only now that you have said so that I
do realize that they bring great pain; otherwise, I never knew
that there are kashays in favorable circumstances.
Dadashri: Without the Gnani Purush showing them, human
beings cannot see their mistakes; there are infinite such mistakes.
This is not the only mistake. One has been surrounded with
infinite such mistakes.
Questioner: Mistakes occur with every step.
Dadashri: Have you understood exactly that favorable
circumstances are also called kashays?
Questioner: Yes.
Dadashri: That which constantly keeps you entrenched
in the ‘sweetness of the cool feeling,’ which you will enjoy a lot,
are the very kashays that make you wander endlessly.
The Foundation of Kashay is Ignorance
Questioner: What is the basis on which these kashays
exist?
Dadashri: It is based on ignorance of the Self (agnan).
Ignorance of the Self is the base of all these. All puzzles are
solved when that ignorance goes away. Ignorance goes away
when ‘we’ make you understand the Self. Kashays begin to
shed as ignorance leaves, and thus attachment-abhorrence (raag-
dwesh) leave. Then the non-Self complex of thoughts, speech
and actions (prakruti) begins to fall off. Is this not an easy path?
The Unique Beauty of Akram Vignan
Questioner: Dada, it is hard to accept and believe one
can attain this Gnan without doing anything.
Dadashri: Akram Vignan (Science of Dadashri’s step-