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UNDERSTANDING SAMAYIK
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the nature of the non-Self complex (pudgal)? It is naïve. So You
can catch him with this technique. Jiva and Shiva are both
separate, are they not? When he comes into jiva bhaav, he will
eat potato fritters and everything, and when he comes into shiva
bhaav, he will do darshan.
Questioner: But is the mind of a jiva (that which lives
and dies), independent?
Dadashri: Absolutely independent. Have you or have
you not seen the mind confront and oppose you? Hey, you!
How can it confront or oppose you if it were ‘your’ mind? You
will realize whether it is independent or not when it confronts
you.
Questioner: Because I do not have control over my
speech and that is why I have no control over the mind.
Dadashri: You do not have control over anything that
confronts or opposes you. Before, you believed that ‘I am jiva’
(I am living). Now that belief has been destroyed and You have
the realization of ‘I am Shiva’ (I am eternal), but the jiva part
will not let go of his bhaav, he will not let go of his claim or his
rights. But he will let go if you coax him gently. Just as when bad
company (kusang) touches him, he becomes a kusangi (tainted
by bad habits of the company); when satsang touches him, he
becomes a satsangi; and when you explain things to him, he will
listen and leave the bad habits; he is good in that way.
Now what you have to do is to sit down with ‘Chandubhai’
and talk to him, ‘You have been coming to satsang every day
even at the age of sixty-seven years; you are doing a good job
of making sure of that.’ But, at the same time, you have to make
him understand and give him advice, ‘Why are you taking so
much care of this body? If this occurs to the body, let it occur.
Why don’t you come and sit here at the table with ‘me.’ There
lies infinite bliss with ‘me.’ That is what you should tell