dadavani - Self Realization In 2 Hours

you for the need of the body like daal (lentil
soup), bhaat (steamed rice), shaak (prepared
vegetables), kadhee (soup made with chickpea
flour, yogurt and spices), and rotli (very thin
flatbread). That is not vishaya (object of
pleasure). When is it considered vishaya?
When you get greedily absorbed
(lubdhamaan), then it is considered vishaya.
Otherwise, it is not vishaya; it is nirvishaya
vishaya (engagement without the absorption
of pleasure). Therefore, everything that you
see through your eyes is not vishaya. It is a
vishaya when you get greedily absorbed.
What is bhoga upbhoga?
Wherever the inner tendencies (vruttis)
get seized, that is called bhoga (suffering of
pleasure). Wherever the inner tendencies do
not get seized, that is considered udaseen
bhaav (view-outlook-intent of disinterest).
No matter how much is renounced, if the
tendencies get stuck in just one athana (spicy
pickle), then the pleasure (bhoga) of all the
eleven senses (five gnanendriya, five
karmendriya and mind) are there in it. That
which is destroyed (ends) after suffering the
pleasure (bhogavavoo) is called bhoga. As
we have eaten the food, it is gone, and
therefore it is called bhoga. Some things may
be utilized repeatedly, just like this shirt. If I
utilize it again and again, it is considered as
upbhoga. Therefore, people living the worldly
life (sansari) are called bhoga and upbhoga.
For the ones who have renounced life, the
only upbhoga they have, are their clothes and
the begging utensils. Other than that, they do
not have any upbhoga. If gaanthiya (snacks
made out of chickpeas) for snacks come in
the memory on a morning, then there is no
problem. That is called bhoga. Upbhoga is
very troublesome.
DADAVANI
It is because of inadequate maturation
of development
Just as the eater eats (aahaari does
aahaar), the one inclined towards sexual
pleasures does sexual interaction (vishayi
does vishaya). But one should understand
this first. And that should remain in awareness.
He may be eating good food daily, but if
starving for four days, he will even eat a piece
of dirty bread lying in snot. Such food is
tolerated, but the food of sexuality is even
dirtier than that. One eats dirty bread because
of the burning hunger pangs. Similarly one
suffers sexuality because of the burning hunger
for it within. But when eating the dirty bread,
he thinks it is fine to do so. But does he have
the desire to do it again? No! No one will
have a desire to eat that again. That is not the
case in sexuality, is it? But that should also be
the case in sexuality.
Food is evidence, a nimit
Questioner: Does vishaya-vikar
(sexuality and its impulses) depend on food?
Dadashri: For the one who has
dispassion (vairagya), the food is merely an
evidence (nimit). Otherwise, where the mind
is clear and clean, there is nothing. Food
intake (aahaar) is a display of gross intent
(sthool bhaav); nothing else is being
demonstrated here.
Hence, ‘we,’ who are descendants of
the great sages, do not even know what
vairagya is! You do not know what vairagya
is. If you were to exactly understand what
vairagya is, then you would not get any
sexual (vikari) thoughts at all!
Vairaag will not last without thought
process
Vairaag or Vairagya (dispassion) is
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