Aptavani-9
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Questioner: It is wrong to take garva, is it not?
Dadashri: The worldly life is based on garva (doer-
ship). The seed for the worldly life is garva, not ego.
Questioner: How is garva a seed?
Dadashri: There is no sweetness in the ego (ahamkar).
The ego offers no enjoyment but garvaras (doer-ship), is very
sweet! Pride and abhimaan have some sweetness also but not
as much as garvaras. There is nothing as tasteful as garvaras.
Only ‘Science’ will liberate you from garva
So we are not the real doers, some other entity is the
doer. One makes false claims of doer-ship (arop); he makes the
aropit bhaav of ‘I am doing this.’ Then he gets to taste the juice
of doer-ship (garvaras), which tastes very sweet, and that
binds karma. You bind karma the moment you take false pride
and taste the sweetness of doing something,
However, one can be liberated if he knows the reality
exactly as it is; that is if he knows that he is not the doer but
vyavasthit is. One should have such a science (Vignan) within.
Then there will be absolutely no attachment (raag) or abhorrence
(dwesh), will there? He will be able to realize through this
Vignan ‘I am not this (the body).’ All this knowledge that I am
talking of is not my Vignan (science); it is the Vignan of the
Vitarags, the Vignan of the twenty-four tirthankaras. How can
one attain the Self without this Vitarag Vignan and see it as it is?
Questioner: According to your ‘theory’, it is vyavasthit
that runs everything nevertheless garvaras continues to occur
within, does it not?
Dadashri: No, garva will not occur. Garva only occurs,
as long as you have decided, ‘I am Chandulal’. There is garva
as long as this wrong belief exists. Once this wrong belief leaves,
garva will not remain.