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Aptavani-9
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Mamata (Attachment – my-ness) : Lalacha
(Covetousness)
Better to stay away from sticky wet mud
Everyone is a guest in this ‘home’; the world. One is a
guest as long as he stays and then one day he will leave. Have
you not seen them leave? Those with attachment (mamata) and
those without attachment eventually leave, do they not?
Therefore, do not waste even a minute. Why would you
want to waste even a minute of the five or fifty years you are
going to stay? You will pick up ‘stains’ (bind karma). The
clothes (body) will remain here and the stain (karma) will stick
to you and go with you to the next life. So why would you allow
yourself to pick up any stain? Now (after Gnan) you do not pick
up stain everywhere. All you have to do is to be careful while
walking close to ‘sticky wet mud’ (grave circumstances or
incidents that pull you away from Gnan). We are not concerned
about all the ‘flying dust’ (trivial incidents) that dust will fall off
on its own but the mud will stick to you. You can easily shake
the dust off your clothes but you cannot remove the mud so
easily and it will stain your cloth. Therefore, stay away from wet
sticky mud.
The Gnani is without any expectations
Absolute purity (shuddhata) is rare in this world because
the lives of agnanis (worldly people) are relative and are filled
with expectations (sapeksha). Even the lives of the Gnanis of
the Kramic path (traditional religious path) are filled with