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Aptavani-6
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The Secret of the Bliss of the Self
Questioner: There is constant awareness of Shuddhatma,
yet many times the mind becomes depressed. Why is that?
Dadashri: Our Gnan says just keep ‘seeing’ what is
happening to ‘Chandubhai.’ There is no other solution. Would
you not recognize that he has brought more garbage with him
from the past life?
Questioner: At that time, the relationship of that which is
to be known and the knower (gneya-gnata) does not remain.
The awareness, ‘I am separate from this mind, speech and body,’
does not remain.
Dadashri: If that gneya-gnata relationship did not prevail,
then You would not be able to know that this is happening to
Chandubhai. Who comes to know about this? Therefore, the
gneya-gnata relationship remains completely for You. The
knower knows that which is to be known every minute.
Questioner: But it should stop after the knowing takes
place, should it not? Should it, the non-Self, not turn towards the
Self again?
Dadashri: It will not turn even if you try. How are you
going to turn it around?
Questioner: So, Dada, when the machinery is going on
the wrong path, am ‘I’ to just keep ‘seeing’ it?
Dadashri: What else are You going to do? The wrong