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Atkan: Major Blockade in the Path of Liberation
Dadashri: Do you ever experience excitement with the
temptation of pleasure (galgalia)?
Questioner: When Sunday comes and it is time for betting
on the horses, galgalia occur inside me.
Dadashri: Yes, why does that happen on a Sunday and
not on a Saturday? Only when matter (dravya), place (kshetra),
time (kaad) and intent (bhaav) come together do you experience
this excitement (galgalia).
Each person has been left dangling and stranded from
infinite past lives; each has been stranded in his own major inner
obstruction (atkan) which inevitably blocks spiritual progress.
One gets stuck in it. Why has one been stranded since time
immemorial? Why is there still no solution for it? It is because
one has some kind of atkan. Everyone has a different atkan.
Do you understand this atkan? A smart, care-free horse
pulling a carriage comes across a grave of a Muslim person
covered with a green cloth. The horse will stop as soon as it
sees the green cloth. Why is that? It sees the green cloth on the
grave and sees it as something new and gets startled. Then, no
matter how much the owner strikes it, it will not move forward.
Then he may have to strike, coax or put blinders on him and
take him across. But the next day, the horse will get stuck at the
same place. That is because there is an atkan (major blockade
of inner obstruction) within him. At that time he forgets everything;
he forgets who he is; he forgets his knowledge (gnan). If the