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Aptavani-8
Karmas are discharging (nirjara) anyway, but you are giving
the support with, ‘I am doing it.’ The karmas that come into
effect; will play out their part, but in this, we say, ‘I did it’.
Questioner: So we are to suffer our karmas without any
expectation of reward (nishkaam bhaav), and since we do not
suffer them, the tendencies (vruttis) enter into them, is that not
what happens?
Dadashri: Without Gnan, it is very difficult to get rid of
the intent of doership (karta bhaav). If there is Gnan, there
would not be the intent of doership (karta bhaav). When no
more intent (bhaav) of doership remains, it means that there is
a blockage of influx of karmic matter (samvar), and where
there is a blockage of karmic matter (samvar), there is the state
of being unaffected by all external turmoil (samadhi).
Questioner: I can reach the state of samvar, but I cannot
stay still and steady (sthir).
Dadashri: No, if you have blockage of influx of karma
(samvar), you would definitely have a state that is unaffected by
external turmoil (samadhi). Where there is samadhi, know that
a man has samvar.
Questioner: But if for some reason there is binding of
karmic matter (bandh), then what do we do?
Dadashri: Nothing needs to be done. You need to become
the Atma.
Questioner: Do we not have to mentally figure out what
the solution to this would be?
Dadashri: Once you have become the Atma, you do not
have to think about anything. How far does the thinking go? You
can carry on thinking for as long as you have doubts like, ‘Is this
Atma, or is this Atma?’ You have to keep on thinking, as long
as there is uncertainty about the Atma.