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Aptavani-6
Questioner: What about the pain (peeda, dukh)
experienced by the ‘packaging,’ the relative-self?
Dadashri: No one experiences pain. The donkey does
not experience pain whether you put a sack on its back or not.
I know donkeys very well. In our cement and construction
business, we have two hundred or so donkeys that come to
work for us. They droop their ears like this and so ‘we’
understand that, despite carrying a lot of weight, they are in their
own enjoyment (masti)! They know their own masti; how would
you know about that!
Focused Awareness is Upayog
Questioner: The silk worm works hard to produce a
cocoon and then it traps itself in it. Then in order to come out,
it has to shed its attachment to the cocoon; so how many ‘layers’
are there? All these…
Dadashri: There are no layers or anything like that; there
is just the false fear! Now that I have given you this Gnan, You
have become a pure Soul (Shuddhatma). Therefore, this mind,
speech, body of ‘Chandubhai’ and all illusion (maya) associated
with that name, fall under the control of the energy of scientific
circumstantial evidences (vyavasthit shakti). Vyavasthit will
give the inspiration from within. Therefore, You have to remain
as, ‘I am Shuddhatma,’ and just ‘continue seeing’ (joyaa karo)
whatever is happening to ‘Chandubhai’ and whatever
‘Chandubhai’ is doing. That is all; and if You ‘do’ just this, then
‘You’ become absolute (purna). Each entity does its own work;
‘Chandubhai’ does ‘Chandubhai’s’ work. Now, if You do not
interfere in that, then you are out of the cocoon, the web of life
after life. Even if ‘You’ do not interfere for just one day, then
You will realize, ‘Wow! I have come out of the cocoon!’
At least, try this one Sunday. Let go of the ‘reins of the
five horses,’ the five senses that you are holding on to, and let
‘Me-the Self’ (Dada, in the form of knowledge within us) take