Aptavani-9
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Questioner: Are you referring to the tastes of food?
Dadashri: Yes, the taste; all those are called ras-
garavata. Some people like certain foods a lot. If he is going
to get his favorite food for dinner, his chit will be in it from the
morning till it is cooked. His chit will be in it even after he
finishes eating. That is called ras-garavata.
The buffalo sitting in the mud is ras-garavata. Humans
have garavata in the taste of the five senses. One will not budge
from there; that is the ras-garavata of sense organs.
Then there is riddhi-garavata. ‘I have a mill…I have five
children…I have a bungalow…’ it is all riddhi-garavata.
Riddhi means anything related to money; worldly possession is
riddhi.
Questioner: What comes under siddhi?
Dadashri: Siddhi is spiritual.
Questioner: Give us an example of siddhi.
Dadashri: There is no problem for a tiger and a lamb
to come together in the presence of an ahimsak human being
– a person who is non-violent through the mind, body and
speech. Or if an angry person comes here (in this satsang), he
will forget everything when he sees ‘us’. It will make him forget
his nature.
The saints, ascetics and spiritual leaders have siddhi-
garavata. When someone comes to them saying, ‘I have such
and such an ailment’, they cash in their siddhi, they use their
special spiritual energy and then they remain in its garavata.
They feel happy when people give them respect and recognition.
People will bring them good food as a token of their
appreciation and they will eat and enjoy it. This is the kind of
garavata they enjoy. If they happen to attain certain siddhis,
they will live in the garavata of that siddhi. They do not think
of advancing themselves further.