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Aptavani-9
Nothing can be achieved without realizing the Self. Until
then one has to keep wandering. This is because the Self cannot
be found in books. Where can you find it? The Soul can be
attained only from a Gnani but Gnanis are very rarely around.
That is why Krupadudev has said, ‘it (to find a Gnani) is rare,
rare, rare, rare.’ Gnani is never to be found. Where will you
find one?
The seer and the knower is not involved in
tasting garvaras
Questioner: What is a compliment (swaprashansa) and
what is garva? And what is the cause behind tasting garva?
What is the solution for avoiding it?
Dadashri: Compliment is when someone says, ‘you are
a very nice and likable person. It is hard to find a man like you.’
When someone says this to him, he will forget everything and all
day long he will do everything that person asks him.
And garva means to claim ‘I did such a great job! I did
it so well’. He enjoys the sweetness from saying, ‘how
wonderful a job’ about a task he accomplishes.
What is the reason behind wanting to enjoy garvaras? It
is the ego. There is ego behind it; the ego of ‘I am something’.
And what is the solution for avoiding and overcoming it?
After attaining this Gnan, all that has been done away with. Now
whatever remains is in the form of discharge. ‘You’ have to
remain separate from all ‘that’.
Questioner: Dada how can we maintain awareness; how
can we remain jagrut during the discharge (discharging effects
of karma)?
Dadashri: ‘You’ just have to ‘see’ whatever ‘Chandulal’
does. You have to ‘see’ even when ‘Chandulal’ is taking
garvaras and also continue ‘seeing’ him when he feels pleased
when someone gives him a compliment.