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Aptavani-6
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This is Worth Knowing and Worshipping
Questioner: Now, when I ‘see’ the real, the kind of love
that should arise towards it does not arise, and the relative has
become a form of a cure. What is that called?
Dadashri: If love (here it means attachment/raag) arises,
then abhorrence (dwesh) will be there on the other side. There
is no need to ‘do’ raag. The Self is the only thing worth going
for with total devotion (aradhana), and that is the place to dwell
(ramanata). Dwelling in the pure Soul (Shuddhatma) means a
constant awareness, constant dhyan of Shuddhatma as the Self.
From now on, you have to dwell in the Self, be the Self (swa
is Self, ramanata is to dwell in). There is nothing else to be
done.
Questioner: We have to ‘know’ the ‘relative,’ the non-
Self, and we also have to ‘know’ the real, the Self?
Dadashri: No. You have to have total devotion
(aradhana) for the real, and You have to ‘know’ the relative.
Only the relative is worth ‘knowing.’ This ‘real,’ I have already
made you realize.
The whole world is that which is to be known (gneya),
and You are the knower (gnata). Your ‘knower-ship’ (gnayak
swabhav) has arisen. So what more remains now? Having
attained knower-ship, all You have to do is keep ‘seeing’ the
gneya.
There is no need for You to maintain love for Shuddhatma
because you have become that. Now who will you love? Gnan,