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Aptavani-9
Sometimes even a brand new engine will not run, does that
happen or not?
So repenting is all that is needed and You are not the one
repenting. You have to make the non-self (Chandulal) do the
repenting. Tell him, ‘You must repent. You are like this and like
that.’ That is what You have to tell ‘Chandulal’. Is anyone likely
to complain about You if You scold Chandulal in this manner?
The non-Self was and is separate from the
Self
So suspicion will make everything cling to you, to your
relative self. The internal enemies of anger, pride, attachment and
greed within will surround you and imprison you. All those
internal enemies are inanimate (achetan bhaav, jada bhaav).
What can the inanimate, the non-Self, do to the animate
(chetan, the Self)?
Unnecessary thoughts, which carry you away, will not
come now that You have become the Self, and if they do, You
do not have to listen to them. They are all related to the body
complex (pudgal), they are the intent (bhaav) of the non-Self
(pudgal bhaav). So do not submit to them. Nobody will bother
You. It is just like a barking dog. An elephant will not turn
around if a dog barks at it; it will realize that it is just a dog. If
there are two hundred dogs barking behind an elephant, will the
elephant turn around to see who is barking? That is how these
pudgal bhaavs are. They will bother an agnani (those who do
not have Self-realization) because he has not become an
‘elephant’ (the Self) yet. An agnani will get involved (affected)
with them, immediately.
‘No body has the power to do anything’ to have this
bhaav is fearlessness (shoorvirata). Everything else is matter
(jada) and You are chetan, the Self. You are the one with
infinite energy!