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Aptavani-8
Dadashri: Who told you that?
Questioner: I have read that every Atma merges into the
Absolute (Brahma). When the Atma attains its absolute state,
it merges into the Absolute (Brahma).
Dadashri: So then what is there left for you?
Questioner: We become one with the Absolute (Brahma)!
Dadashri: But what is there in it for you?
Questioner: I want to be rid of the state of I and my, that
pertains to the ego (apnapanu), and attain the state of God
(Ishwarpanu).
Dadashri: Yes, but how will you benefit from becoming
an integrated part of God (Ishwar)? Instead of that, you do
have your own independent identity, and right now you get
your sweets and fritters (laadva and bhajiya) and everything.
Is it not just a matter of putting up with a few insults?! What
other problems do you have? Besides, what do these people
say over here? They say, ‘We only want to go to moksha
(final liberation), if there is more happiness (sukh) over there
than there is over here, but if we have to merge over there, we
do not want to go!’
If Light Merges With Light, What Is Left of
You?
Questioner: But those who say, ‘I am the Absolute’
(Aham Brahmasmi), talk about merging into the light, saying
that moksha means merging into the light, are they both the
same thing?
Dadashri: What they consider as final liberation (moksha);
that final liberation means merging into the light, is not the proper
moksha. The moksha that those who no longer have attachment
and abhorrence (the Vitarag), have spoken of: that there in the
realm of the Liberated Souls (Siddha gati), one experiences