Aptavani-9
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Dadashri: Oh, leave alone all talks of lowering infatuation
(aasakti), this goes way beyond aasakti and it destroys people.
All the ascetics (bavas) have been destroyed by their attitude of
‘What is it to me?’ ‘What do I care?’ ‘What is it to me?’ You
can never say this.
‘What do I care?’ means nispruha – to be without
inclination. You either become spruhi (with inclination) or
become like the Gnani Purush, who is nispruhi – free from
inclination where the body is concerned - but has spruha -
complete inclination for the Self. So become saspruhi-nispruhi,
meaning inclined towards the Self and disinclined towards the
non-Self. So remain as one or the other. But do not become
completely disinclined (nispruha) without realizing the Self,
otherwise you will become like a stone. You cannot say, ‘What
do I care?’
To say ‘what do I care?’ is the entrapment o