Dadavani March 2014 dadashri.org/dvMarch2014.pdf Invisible Inner Penance Brings Forth Solution Questioner: If someone insults me and I endure it, is that also considered as tapa? Dadashri: That too, is considered prapta tapa (present penance). Why did your penance come soon? It is because you are going to find a resolution sooner; you are going to become pure quicker; speedily! The tapa (penance) happens within at the time of uprooting it, does it not? Is there pain in the chit (subtle inner component of knowledge and vision)? That is called tapa. ‘You’ have to keep ‘seeing’ that tapa. Do not believe that as pain (dukha). If you believe it as pain, then that penance will cease instantly. Since we have been separated as pure Soul (Shuddhatma), Chandubhai has to tolerate and suffer, but his suffering (vedakata) subsequently ‘touches’ the Self. This is because until the complete experience of the Self happens, the suffering of pain (vedakata) remains. If that experience becomes complete, then it is called the state of the Knower (jaanavapanu). And if the state of ‘knowing’ is not complete; it is incomplete, then it (the suffering) remains stuck and therefore it stings and burns. But to keep it separate there is called penance. Penance is that which becomes red hot from within. Would it not become red hot? It does arise sometimes, does it not? Penance does come, does it not? Questioner: Yes, it heats up and there is the suffering of pain (vedan). Dadashri: Now to remain separate in that suffering (vedan) is called tapa (penance)! Then it is called the state of the ‘knowing’ (jaanavapanu). If one cannot remain separate in that suffering, then it is called vedakata (suffering) or vedavapanu (the state of suffering)! In the kramik path, there is only vedakata. Suffering only; no ‘knowing’. Here, we are in the state of the ‘knowing’, but because of the old unfolding stock of karma and its stickiness, a little vedakata, (suffering of pain) may happen. Nonetheless, if he sits with the setting that, ‘No, I am ‘knowing’ only’, then that will remain. What else is there? It’s religion verily is of gnayakpanu; to continue ‘knowing’ only. Questioner: Would the suffering (vedavoo) remain for Chandubhai right up to the end? Dadashri: But You are to ‘see’ that. It may remain, but for You it remains as that to be known, and You are the Knower. Questioner: Yes, but Chandubhai has to suffer, does he not? Dadashri: There is no other way out! He suffers on a rare day, does he not? So then, lead him up to a mirror and say to him, ‘I am there for you’. But such cases do not come a hundred times a day, do they? Only two or three cases, right! Chandubhai has a lot to suffer. The pleasant and the good. There is lot of cold (pleasant) and then the hot (unpleasant) comes once in awhile. When it is cold the entire night one gets sleep, no? And when the hot arrives, be done with it. Will you settle and be done with it?
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