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method (Vidhi).
Now there are not many such ‘shops’ that attract you.
There are only a few such ‘shops,’ but the one who is faced
with many such ‘shops’ must make an increased and greater
intense spiritual effort (purusharth). But whoever has only a few
such shops should clear the account and make it exact – ‘see’
it, as it is, the relative and the real. There is nothing wrong in
eating and drinking, but the problem is with sexual interaction
through thoughts, speech and acts (vishay). Male vishay and
female vishay (male and female sexual interactions) are both
factories that give rise to enmity and revenge (veyr), life after
life. Therefore, bring an end to it in whichever way You can.
Questioner: Is that what you mean when you tell us,
‘Get your work done’?
Dadashri: What else? Get rid of all these diseases that
are within! I am not telling you to do anything. I am just telling
you to know (janavoo) it. This gnan (knowledge) is worth
knowing, it is not worth doing. (Dadashri uses the word gnan
for three types of knowledge: Gnan with capitalized ‘G’ is the
knowledge of the Self. The second gnan is the knowledge of
cause and effects, life after life, and the third gnan is the worldly
knowledge of human beings). The gnan that one knows (jaanyu)
as an experience cannot refrain from producing the desired results,
for sure. Therefore, You do not have to do anything. Lord
Mahavir had said that in the ‘religion’ of the ones who are on
the path of liberation (vitarag dharma), there is no ‘I am doing,
he is doing and they are doing (karomi, karosi and karoti),’
respectively.
Can you or can you not know what your atkan is?
Questioner: I will know it immediately.
Dadashri: When you come to ‘know’ a lafru as a lafru,
then it will fall away (lafru – a file or an event related to a file;