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Aptavani-8
This is how it is: There is a businessman (sheth), who is a very
content man. He owns a mill. Whenever he talks about anything,
he makes all his two thousand employees, delighted. That is the
way he speaks, and that is how behaves. He possesses a beautiful
respect. But what would he be like, when he is tired at the end
of the day, and has a drink? He starts feeling intoxication from
the brandy, so he becomes oblivious to his own condition. His
own awareness grows dim, until he is enclosed in darkness.
Questioner: In the intoxication from the alcohol, he loses
all awareness, so how do people lose their spiritual awareness?
Dadashri: In spirituality (adhyatma) it is intoxication from
illusion (moha) that does not come down. It is in this state of
intoxication, that people talk. All that you are talking about right
now, is after you have had a swig of the alcohol; that is moha,
intoxication due to illusion. I have removed the intoxication in all
these mahatmas. But yours has not been lifted, so you are in
a perpetual state of intoxication when you talk. So when this
intoxication is lifted, you will understand what this life’s purpose
is; you will immediately realize it.
Just like the businessman who, after his state of intoxication
has lifted, is just the same as he was before! Then he resumes
talking nicely! So with him, it is the intoxication from the alcohol;
whereas the world is intoxicated with infatuation due to illusion
(moha); but a person’s alcoholic stupor, can be lifted by dousing
a couple of bowls of cold water on him. Here, however, the
intoxication of illusion (moha) can never be lifted. Then even if
you went to the Himalayas, or anywhere else, wherever you
look, you will only come across drunks. They leave their homes,
their wives and children, but they do not renounce the hum (I;
the ego); their I (hum) never leaves. They are perpetually in, I,
I, I. When the I (ego) goes, that is when he becomes the Absolute
Soul (Parmatma). ‘You’ yourself are the Absolute Soul
(Parmatma). However, you are not aware of this, because you
do not have the awareness (jagruti).