Aptavani-9
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What does our Gnan (Self-knowledge) say? What is in
this world worth enjoying? You are needlessly struggling in
pursuit of these pleasures. The bliss of the Self is the only
experience worth pursuing.
Questioner: The bliss that exists in the Self does not exist
anywhere else.
Dadashri: Where else can bliss exist? All those pleasures
are imaginary. If you imagine happiness (project happiness in
something), you feel happy. One person says, ‘I like jalebee
(crisp fried sweet soaked in sugar syrup) very much,’ and
another person says, ‘when I see jalebee I feel like throwing
up.’ So these pleasures are imagined, not real.
The whole world accepts gold as something precious and
pleasing but the Gnani Purush does not. Even the Jain saints
reject it. The world has imagined pleasure to exist in sex. Sexual
interaction is nothing but sheer filth. How can bliss exist there?
Lalacha for sex; what a demeaning state
Questioner: Are all conflicts and quarrels results of one
taking pleasure from sex?
Dadashri: All this has arisen from sex and there is no
pleasure in it. In the morning, these people’s faces look like they
just took some castor oil!
Questioner: It sends shivers through my body to see
people go through so much suffering just for such a momentary
pleasure.
Dadashri: That is lalacha; intense greed (lalacha) of
enjoying sex. Then when he experiences the miseries of a life in
hell, he comes to the realization of ‘what is there to enjoy in it?’
You can call a man having lalacha for sex, an animal. Sex will
stop only when one shudders with horror at the thought of it.
How can it stop otherwise? That is why Krupadudev has said
that one would not like to even spit at it.