Aptavani-6
105
Then this lady asks me why her mind will not remain
concentrated and attentive. How does the concentration with
purpose (ekagrata) remain when she is buying vegetables? This
is about experience. This is not baseless; there is no interest in
God and that is why the ekagrata does not remain. When love
for God occurs, that is when concentration will come.
As long as there is interest in money, one will be attracted
and caught up with money, and when he gets interested in God,
then interest in money will leave. Therefore, the interest should
change.
Now, it is not your mistake that you do not have interest
in God. How can you develop interest in something you have
never seen? You have seen this sari and its beautiful colors, so
interest will naturally develop in it. But God cannot be seen, can
He? That is why it is said that you should form an interest in a
representative of God, such as a Gnani Purush. Interest will be
formed there and when you form an interest in the Gnani Purush,
recognize that it will reach God.
If interest is formed wherever there is anger, pride, deceit
and greed (kashays), then that interest is kashayik – it, too, is
laden with anger, pride, deceit and greed. That conviction
(kashayik pratiti) is such that it will break. The interest formed
through attachment (raag) is broken through abhorrence (dwesh),
whereas interest on the representative of the Lord is not formed
through raag. There is nothing in Him for which you can have
raag.
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