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charge of them. Then, sit comfortably in the chariot and say,‘ Dada( anything you tell Dada, bounces back to the Soul within), make them run the way you desire. I am going to sit here in peace!’ Then you will see that your chariot will not go into a ditch. The problem is that you do not know how to guide it, yet you try to steer it. When it is going down the slope, you relax the reins, and when you have to go uphill, you keep pulling on them. So all this is contradictory. However, in the Self that I have given You, you have definitely come out of the cocoon!
But now you will have to set the upayog – focus the awareness. You have been given the Self, but the awareness of the self( old upayog of‘ I am Chandubhai’) is such a thing that by nature it slips in and you automatically become the self. Therefore, You have to set this upayog, the focus of the awareness, as the Self. You have to maintain the awareness; You have to‘ do’ the purusharth, being the Self, because now You have become the Soul, or the Self( purush).
Now what is the‘ slipping’ of the upayog? There was a wealthy mill owner. He sat down with me to have a meal. His wife came and sat across from us. I asked her,‘ Why are you sitting in front of us?’ So the lady says,‘ He never eats in peace, only today he is eating peacefully just because you are here. That is why I am sitting here.’
So the man told his wife,‘ Get up from here, you have no sense at all.’ I understood what the mill owner was like. I told him,‘ Your wife is saying that for your own good. Your health will be much better if you ate your meals peacefully. Instead, why are you scolding her by calling her senseless?’ He admitted that she was right and said,‘ Whenever I sit down to eat; my chit would be at the office. I would talk on the phone with my secretary while this physical bundle would be eating here.’
This is called slipping of upayog. I then told the mill owner,