Editor : DADAVANI January 2013 Dimple Mehta Year : 8, Issue : 3 Price : Rs. 10 Awareness on food for Conti. Issue No.: 87 attainment of brahmacharya

EDITORIAL A living being (jiva), after coming into human life-form continues to dwell in five sense pleasures as per its understanding. Amongst the vishaya (sensory pleasures) of the five senses, the tongue is the only correct and acceptable one. The rest of them are deluding and made up. By believing them to be true, people become trapped in the puzzles of this worldly life. But when a person gains the true understanding and begins to walk towards the spiritual path, his sensory pleasures begin to become insipid and start to leave. In the kramic path (step-by-step path to Self-realization), very harsh penance and self- control is required if a person wishes to progress spiritually. The practice of brahmacharya (freedom from any sexual impulse within the mind, words and actions) becomes extremely crucial in that. After attaining Gnan (Self-realization) through the direct Akram path (step-less Self- realization experience), it becomes necessary to become free from sexual impulses (abrahmacharya), to experience the Self in a true sense. For these enlightened beings of Akram Vignan, whoever desires to have a clear and distinct experience of the Self through further entry into exclusive devotion towards brahmacharya, will solidly receive all guidance through the understanding that arises in absolutely revered Dadashri’s book called ‘Brahmacharya-Celibacy attained with understanding’. A discipline in diet also becomes a very important part in practicing brahmacharya. To provide an extra understanding on this subject, Dadashri explains that the brahmacharya is obstructed because of the food, and that one should always have awareness over his food intake. One has to eat to live and not live to eat. One should eat only as much as required to sustain one’s ‘candle light’ (life). One should eat only as much as required for the basic nourishment of the body; and that too only simple food, and not rich food (with plentiful oil and butter). The one who wants to practice brahmacharya should not eat ghee (processed butter), milk and oil-rich sweets. Yet, if one has to eat it, he should eat very little, only so much that his own ‘hunger eats it out.’ Sexual impulses do not arise when one’s hunger (for food) eats this out, and when it does not it eat out, it gives rise to spiritual laziness (pramad). This laziness in turn gives rise to sexual impulses. Pudgal (the physical body) is such that it will harass and torment. If the pudgal is viryavan (with proper energy) or if one eats very less, then his body will not harass him. Brahmacharya is the essence of the body complex. If this is gone then the basis of the Self will be lost, and this is not affordable for those practicing brahmacharya. Therefore one should ... continue on next page

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{ Please note that ‘S’ Self denotes the awakened Self, separate from the ‘s’ worldly self. The Self is the Soul within all living beings. The term pure Soul is used by the Gnani Purush for the awakened Self, after the Gnan Vidhi. The absolute Soul is the fully enlightened Self. The worldly soul is the self. In the same manner, ‘Y’ You refers to the awakened Soul or Self, and the ‘y’ you refers to the worldly self. This differentiation is unique to critical understanding of the separation of the Self from the self a/k/a the non-Self complex that is accomplished in the Gnan Vidhi of Akram Vignan.} What is the goal of life? Should we not have some goal in life? You go to work, earn money and yet all this If a person just keeps putting oil in an money brings only worries for the whole day, engine and keeps it running aimlessly for and bad thoughts keep coming. Thoughts like, years, what will people tell him? They will tell whose can I enjoy, whose can I take away. him, ‘Hey! Why don’t you attach a belt to this Thus by taking away and suffering the pleasures running engine and get some benefit out of it, of that which is not rightfully his, one invites a get some work done?’ That is how people eat life in hell, where horrible pains have to be food to live life, but then they do not make suffered. All this pleasures (sukha) are use of the life energy by passing it on to a considered borrowed pleasures (a loan which ‘belt’. Should one not extract some work out will have to be paid off); so how long can of this ‘machine’? What have you decided to borrowed pleasures last? You will have to pay extract from it? For a higher state in the next off that ‘loan’, with interest, with a lifetime in life, or for moksha, you have to give it a hell. Instead we do not want any borrowed ‘work-extracting-belt’; living the life, the work pleasure, nor do we want that pain either. has to be accomplished. If someone asks me “May I eat a jalebi If you ask people why they eat, they (Indian sweet delicacy)?” I would tell him will tell you they do so in order to live. Then these jalebis are good and go ahead and eat if you ask them what they live for, they will tell them with relish. Eat dahivada (lentil fritters you they do not know the reason. Hey! What soaked in yogurt); eat everything. They are all kind of living is that? What is it that life is for? tasteful things. The Gnani Purush understands 2 January 2013 DADAVANI taste, but for Him, there is no such thing as If we think deeper into this topic, repulsion good taste or bad taste, or that only certain will not arise, but if we were to think deeply tastes are acceptable. If the food has taste in on the topics of other objects of pleasure it, there is no problem in enjoying that taste. (vishaya) repulsion and distaste will arise. But what is the main thing here? Just as food This is a fool’s paradise! is taken to sustain the body, in the same way life is to be lived to attain the Self, to attain You eat jalebi, you eat mango, you eat moksha. So the main thing to be known is everything; but all that is not called filth. If the what is my goal? eyes like it, if the tongue likes it, how can it be The awareness of impurity does not called filthy? But sexuality (vishaya) is a remain garbage collection, in all manners. It is a thing that even a stupid person would not like. Say if you ate some delicious doodhapaak (milk cooked with rice, saffron, There is no bhoga (pleasure) in vishays cardamom), how would it look if it were (objects that promise pleasure), but one vomited? Would it look appetizing enough for believes that there is. In pleasure (bhoga), all you to hold in your hand? You just ingested it the five sense organs are happy and content. a moment ago and if it comes up again, why This mango is called bhoga. It has fragrance, can you not hold it in your hand? Therefore it feels good to touch, it is flavorful and the this is a storehouse of impurities, within. It eyes like to look at it, whereas in sexuality, becomes impure the moment you put it in there is nothing at all. It is a “fool’s paradise”. your body. Even if the bowl is nice and clean Need to understand it thoroughly and the doodhapaak is good, but if someone gives you back the doodhapaak you vomited None of the senses are pleased in and asks you to eat it again, you will not eat sexuality. Even the eyes are looking for a dark it no matter what. Therefore all this awareness place in sexuality. Do the eyes look for does not remain. darkness to see a mango? Will the nose ask you to block out its fragrance? Do people The only pure object of pleasure smell? What happens if she does not take a Amongst the vishaya (object of bath for two days? Will she smell like a pleasure) of the five senses, the tongue is the mango? So the nose does not like the smell of only correct and acceptable one. All the sex and the eyes do not like it. Do not even others tend to delude. The only pure object of mention what the tongue thinks of it! It will pleasure is this one of the tongue. How make one vomit. Do you like the smell of a wonderful is the taste that comes from a first mango when it rots? Would you like to touch class Alphanso mango? Within the illusion a rotten mango? So what is there to take (worldly awareness), if there is anything pure pleasure (bhoga) in that? Is it not a wonder as an object of pleasure, then this one of that one enjoys sexuality (abrahmacharya) taste; is the only one. If one gets clean food despite the fact that none of the senses accept the taste of which has not become bland, then it? Think about it at length. I have not come that vishaya is acceptable. It too is kalpit here to turn you into an ascetic. One simply (imagined), but it is the highest of the imagined. has to get rid of all these wrong beliefs that January 2013 3 DADAVANI have taken hold within. When one understands absorption (ramanata) because of this! All sexuality in detail, then it will not remain. this suffering is because of the veda. If a jalebi has been eaten at night, you Otherwise, the human being would not have are not aware of what its condition will be like any pain or inner burning. It is due to these the next morning, right? Its condition completely three vedas that the whole world is decaying changes the next morning, does it not? If a and falling. jalebi is lying in dirt, would you eat it if If sexuality were never considered as a someone gave it to you? No. Why? Even veda (suffering of pleasure-pain) but as an act when it tastes sweet in your mouth? Just only, like eating, then there would have been looking at it, you will say ‘no’ to it, will you no problem. But it is kept as a process of not? What if a nice looking mango turns out to suffering (vedavoo- ‘I am enjoying it’); it has be sour? One will say ‘no’, I do not want to been kept as a vedaniya (something that is eat it. Therefore people check and look so suffered by the ego). All the interference is much before they eat. They will throw away because of the three vedas. Eating is there for food even if the tongue says ‘no’ to it. He will the purpose of calming the hunger. Calm say ‘no’ even if the eyes alone reject it. He down the hunger that arises. Where anything will say ‘no’ even if the nose alone were to needs filling (puran) it is all called hunger reject it. Therefore, a person eats when it (bhookha). Similarly all vishays (objects of satisfies all the five sense organs. But sexuality sense pleasure) are solutions for the purpose is the only thing that pains all the senses. of pacifying suffering (vedana). But people And yet it is a wonder that one derives have become fond of sex. Hey! Do not pleasure in sex! become enamored with it. Determine its limit The one who has won veda has won the and then stay within that normality. world Questioner: What do you mean when What is worth gaining victory over in you say not to take it as a veda? this world? It is veda (the spectrum of Dadashri: When people take it as a ‘suffering to knowing’). The three vedas are: veda, it means they take the taste of it. To eat purush veda (attraction towards female, the for the taste is not considered hunger. suffering of the male), stri veda (attraction Vegetables and bread are to be eaten to towards male, the suffering of the female), and pacify hunger, not for gratifying the taste. If napunsak veda (attraction towards both you try to eat bread and vegetables for the genders, the suffering of the bisexual). Whoever sake of taste then you will not like them at all. has won these vedas, has accomplished the One went for the taste, and that is why it ‘work’ (become liberated). became a veda (suffering). Become wise to Therefore, if these three vedas are the point that you ‘eat’ only for the ‘hunger’. absent, in the play of nature (of one’s life), the Then I will not have to tell you anything, worldly life (sansar) can be won. Would will I? anything be ruined if these vedas are not Where there is greed there is vishaya there? But there are so many things because of this, O ho ho!!! There is so much You can eat whatever comes in front of 4 January 2013 DADAVANI you for the need of the body like daal (lentil It is because of inadequate maturation soup), bhaat (steamed rice), shaak (prepared of development vegetables), kadhee (soup made with chickpea Just as the eater eats (aahaari does flour, yogurt and spices), and rotli (very thin aahaar), the one inclined towards sexual flatbread). That is not vishaya (object of pleasures does sexual interaction (vishayi pleasure). When is it considered vishaya? does vishaya). But one should understand When you get greedily absorbed this first. And that should remain in awareness. (lubdhamaan), then it is considered vishaya. He may be eating good food daily, but if Otherwise, it is not vishaya; it is nirvishaya starving for four days, he will even eat a piece vishaya (engagement without the absorption of dirty bread lying in snot. Such food is of pleasure). Therefore, everything that you tolerated, but the food of sexuality is even see through your eyes is not vishaya. It is a dirtier than that. One eats dirty bread because vishaya when you get greedily absorbed. of the burning hunger pangs. Similarly one What is bhoga upbhoga? suffers sexuality because of the burning hunger for it within. But when eating the dirty bread, Wherever the inner tendencies (vruttis) he thinks it is fine to do so. But does he have get seized, that is called bhoga (suffering of the desire to do it again? No! No one will pleasure). Wherever the inner tendencies do have a desire to eat that again. That is not the not get seized, that is considered udaseen case in sexuality, is it? But that should also be bhaav (view-outlook-intent of disinterest). the case in sexuality. No matter how much is renounced, if the Food is evidence, a nimit tendencies get stuck in just one athana (spicy pickle), then the pleasure (bhoga) of all the Questioner: Does vishaya-vikar eleven senses (five gnanendriya, five (sexuality and its impulses) depend on food? karmendriya and mind) are there in it. That Dadashri: For the one who has which is destroyed (ends) after suffering the dispassion (vairagya), the food is merely an pleasure (bhogavavoo) is called bhoga. As evidence (nimit). Otherwise, where the mind we have eaten the food, it is gone, and is clear and clean, there is nothing. Food therefore it is called bhoga. Some things may intake (aahaar) is a display of gross intent be utilized repeatedly, just like this shirt. If I (sthool bhaav); nothing else is being utilize it again and again, it is considered as demonstrated here. upbhoga. Therefore, people living the worldly Hence, ‘we,’ who are descendants of life (sansari) are called bhoga and upbhoga. the great sages, do not even know what For the ones who have renounced life, the vairagya is! You do not know what vairagya only upbhoga they have, are their clothes and is. If you were to exactly understand what the begging utensils. Other than that, they do vairagya is, then you would not get any not have any upbhoga. If gaanthiya (snacks sexual (vikari) thoughts at all! made out of chickpeas) for snacks come in the memory on a morning, then there is no Vairaag will not last without thought problem. That is called bhoga. Upbhoga is process very troublesome. Vairaag or Vairagya (dispassion) is January 2013 5 DADAVANI like when a person who loves bhajiya (fried the medicine, so that the ‘fever’ does not potatoes) sees the sweat dripping from the recur. hands of the cook into the oil pan will become Questioner: There are the sexual a little disinterested (vairaag). But that impulses (vikar) of the body, does the vairaag is like the dispassion that is emotional energy arise in that or not? experienced at a funeral, it will not last long. Dadashri: Sexual impulses of the body Questioner: Is it a rule that vairaag are a different matter. The sexual impulses of should last? the body arise because of the emotional Dadashri: The vairaag which is energy. The body itself is such that no sexual sustained, accomplishes the work of liberation. impulses can arise in it, no matter what type of Vairaag is not sustained without critical food is placed in it. A ten-year-old boy does thinking. It will be sustained only for the not care about sexuality at all. Why is that? critical thinker. Questioner: Because he is not Science of sexual impulses developed physically or mentally. Questioner: There are yogis (those Dadashri: And after sexual maturity, if who strive to unite with God) in the jungle one is hospitalized for ten years, the sexual who would eat roots from some tree that impulses do not awaken. So then, investigate would destroy their sexual tendencies (vikar). what causes the sexual impulses to arise? If a Can this happen? person has an illness or if there is some Dadashri: Yes, it can. There are always weakness in the body, the sexual impulses rules for this as well. Can sexual tendencies decrease. increase by eating some type of food? Questioner: So those who do not get Questioner: Yes. sexual impulses, are all sick patients? Dadashri: So there will also be a Dadashri: Those, to whom sexual solution to decrease that. Just as there are impulses do not happen, are in their nischaya means to increase sexual tendencies; there are (the Self). means and tools that can completely dissolve Questioner: What does it mean if a them as well. But there is no benefit in person is without nischaya (determination) dissolving the sexual impulses (vikar) in this and does not have any sexual impulses at all? way. The sexual tendency within the mind will not go away; it will not be free from it. Dadashri: Even then he is some sort of a patient. Nonetheless, all are patients, are Questioner: Can the sexual impulses they not? This one is a patient of sexual dissolve from the mind? impulses (vikari) and that one is a patient of Dadashri: No, no. It is only possible if no sexual impulses (navikari). the mind has been developed (ghadatar) The sticking of the chit is vishaya here (in satsang). It is possible if the Gnan (Self-knowledge) has been received here. All that shakes and moves the chit are Then there will not be a problem if you take all verily vishaya (object of pleasure). All this 6 January 2013 DADAVANI that is happening outside is all vishaya. In (knowledge of brahmacharya). When the whatever matter the chit goes out; all of that mind does not falter even the slightest, then are indeed vishays. Eating bhajiya (fried that brahmacharya will enter the mind, and fritters) is not a problem, but if the chit gets thereafter his speech-conduct and all will take stuck there and if it comes again and again in a change. Otherwise, pudgalsaar (essence of the mind, then it is vishaya. All that goes out the physical complex self) will continue to be of Gnan is indeed vishaya. wasted away until then. The essence of the If a man is very hungry, is he likely to be food one eats then goes away. looking at a clothes shop? No, he will look at The one who wants to follow a store that sells sweets. A hungry person brahmacharya must be aware of the fact that leaving his house will look for bhajiya. Where sexual passion increases with certain foods. there is no physical hunger, there will be These types of foods should be decreased. mental hunger. When either of these hungers is Fatty foods, such as those with fats and oils, absent, then hunger through speech arises. Do should not be consumed. You should also people not say, ‘I could not refrain from telling decrease the amount of milk intake. You can him?’ That is hunger of speech. Old folks eat curries, rice, vegetables, and chapattis, used to say to be careful if a beggar comes to just reduce the amount you consume. Do not your home and you are eating, because he overeat. The amount of food you eat should would cast a ‘nazar’ (cast a spell with his be such that you do not feel lethargic. Eat only eyes) with his eyes. What does casting a enough to make you sleep three to four hours nazar mean? It means that one’s chit gets at night. stuck in whatever he has hunger for. If a Food intake should not be reduced too woman is hungry for a man, her chit will get much either, because gnanras (vital energy) stuck in a man. If a man is hungry for a gives light and energy to the eyes, but when woman, his chit will go into a woman when you eat less food, gnanras which flows he sees a woman. This is how everything has through the nerves and gives light to the eyes, been ruined by people’s casting nazar (casting will stop flowing and dry up those nerves. one’s gaze) over things. Due to your youth, you should not get scared And if you wish to practice brahmacharya! and stop eating altogether. You can eat rice- The one who wants to have continence, lentil soup etc., because those foods are easily by continence (saiyam) we mean that if one digestible. Blood formed from such food is wants to follow brahmacharya (become free used by the body. Eating this way will from sexual impulses through mind-speech produce just enough blood necessary for and body), then if he eats in excess, it will work of a day. Hence, further excessive have an adverse effect. Then the result of the production continues to be reduced. adverse effect has to be suffered. Questioner: So there is no need to If one wants to follow brahmacharya, think that because this body is well (healthy), then he should understand it from a Gnani it will cause adverse effects (in Purush. He has to first know that gnan and brahmacharya), and therefore make this then he should understand that gnan body lean? January 2013 7 DADAVANI Dadashri: You do not need to take it excessive magas and other sweets to young so extremely. You will hurt your body if you children. Their blood would increase so much tremendously reduce your intake by becoming by merely eating daal bhaat (lentil soup and so scared. This does not mean that you rice), then imagine what would happen if they should misuse it, thinking that Dada has given were given sweets? They would start making freedom for our diet. sexual mistakes when they are just fifteen years old. Then everything gets ruined, right? Questioner: That means we should You should give them food that does not use normality? provoke sexual impulses. Dadashri: Normality means you should All such rich foods are fine for those definitely reduce the intake of ghee (clarified worldly people who do not care about butter) and oil, because that will affect you. brahmacharya. But the one who wants to What is the harm in eating rich food? practice brahmacharya cannot eat rich foods. Questioner: What is wrong with eating And if you have to eat that, then eat only small ghee if it is pure? amount so that hunger will consume it completely. But when you eat that, you also Dadashri: Ghee always increases flesh need rice-lentil soup, vegetables and so hunger and flesh increases semen. That is not in line is not the eater here. This is the very cause of with brahmacharya, is it? So that type of bad sexual impulses; it incites sexual intents. food like sweets should be avoided. Do not As long as hunger consumes the food, it will consume food that increases the flesh. not give rise to sexual intents. Pramad occurs Eat rice, lentil soup-kadhee (gravy when hunger does not consume the food, made from yogurt). The nature of this food is which in turn increases sexual impulses. such that it can make blood even without Pramad does not mean laziness; it means ghee and so that helps. Nature has created sexual impulses. this rule knowing well that how can an Is the life for eating or living? impoverished person be able to eat this way? Don’t people brush their teeth all their Even a poor man derives energies from lives? Then, would it not be okay if you whatever he eats, does he not? Similarly, we stopped brushing your teeth when you turn too can derive all the energy we need from sixty? Why were the monks told not to? the simple foods we eat. But you should not Why do people clean their tongue? Why do eat food that increases sexuality (vikari). our people do this? They do it so that the People feed young children magas and tongue can get the taste from the food, and gundarpak (rich Indian sweets made from not just for the purpose of cleaning it. The ghee, sugar and nuts and certain tree glues), tongue finds it tasteful. If it is necessary to which have a very detrimental effect on them. clean it, then the dogs and cats would go on It causes them to have sexual impulses. cleaning their tongues as well. But no, these Therefore, you should not give children too people have researched it so that their much of such foods. You have to set some tongue can find it tasteful. Now if the people norms. That is why you should not give were to keep their mouth a little clean and if 8 January 2013 DADAVANI they eat simple food like the monks do, then The force of the pudgal takes one into they would not even need to brush their sex teeth. On the contrary, we eat fried and If you are ill, and cannot get out of bed ‘burned’ food, and we eat varieties of for two months, would brahmacharya sweets. Do we leave anything out? That is (absence of sexual impulses) be easy? why the monks were told not to have such type of diet. The monks are to eat simple Now, if you have a daily fever for food only, and are supposed to bring fifteen days, would brahmacharya remain or whatever they receive as alms and eat that. not? So what is the relationship of fever They are supposed to eat to fill their empty coming or not coming for the purpose of stomach, and to stay alive. Both of their brahmacharya? ways are different. Is it not? Those monks Questioner: That of understanding. eat to stay alive, and the worldly people live Dadashri: No. Something else makes to eat. Do you see this happening? the difference. What is the reason behind it? It Questioner: Sometimes I see that and is because the energy has been drained out. sometimes I do not. When I see ascetics, I As the food intake is reduced, there is lack of feel that they also live to eat. energy. Dadashri: Yes, it is because of this All these vishays (sensual seeking out, Kaliyug (current era of the time cycle sexuality) become awakened after taking a characterized by lack of unity in thought, bath. What is bathing for? Bathing is for those speech and acts). These thoughts have who are by nature sexual and sensually changed because of the current era of the time inclined (vishayi). Otherwise a quick wash cycle. But their main purpose was that the with a wet cloth is good enough. The one who monks were supposed to eat to live. And we does not eat other kind of food, his body will have to live to eat? not smell whatsoever. You should be careful about your food intake, so no harm will come How does food help in this? to your vow of brahmacharya. Questioner: Does our diet help us in Brahmacharya is the ultimate extract of this matter? Is it helpful if we do not eat the pudgal certain type of food? What kind of food do you eat? Dadashri: Of course, it does, but even that is for the one who is on the kramic path. Questioner: Rice, chapatti, vegetables, For the mahatmas, whose Self verily has lentil soup etc. become separated, what remains to be done? Dadashri: What does it become when Nonetheless, eating less, leads to lesser it is excreted (galan)? problems. Questioner: It turns into excreta. Questioner: So it does help, does it Dadashri: Why does that happen? The not? essence of the food we eat is extracted from Dadashri: It helps a lot. it and is converted into blood and other things January 2013 9 DADAVANI and keeps the body alive. And the rest that is price? Virya (semen) is the ultimate essence without lifeblood is removed. This all within is of all the essence of the food we eat. It is an machinery. When the blood is flowing, the extract. If this ‘extract’ remains properly eyes can function. All the ‘wiring’ is in preserved, one can attain the Self easily, and working order. Food that is placed in produces the pains of the world, all bodily pains will not electricity within. With electricity, breathing come, no other pains will come either. (inhalation and exhalation of air) happens. What is brahmacharya (freedom of What happens, in the stomach, of all sexual impulses)? It is the essence of the body that you eat and drink? complex (non-Self complex). What is the Questioner: It forms into blood. ultimate essence of the food we eat and drink? Brahmacharya! If this Dadashri: And excreta are formed (brahmacharya) essence disappears, then also? the foundation, on which the self rests, becomes Questioner: Yes, of course! Some is weak and loose. Therefore, brahmacharya is converted into blood and some is discarded the main thing. There is no end to bliss if there as waste in the form of excreta. is Gnan on one side and brahmacharya on Dadashri: Yes, and some is discarded the other. It brings about an unbelievable as water. What happens to that blood? change; this is because, brahmacharya is the essence of the body complex (pudgalsaar). Questioner: The blood is converted into semen. The essence of the worldly life is moksha and the essence of the body is Dadashri: Really! Do you understand semen. All the things in the world, by nature, what semen is? The blood is converted into go down (adhogami). Semen is the only one semen and then what happens to that semen? that will rise (urdhvagami) if one wants it to. Do they not talk about the seven elements of Therefore such intents for the energy of the the blood? From one of these elements, bone semen (the essence of vitality and energy) to is formed, from the second flesh is formed, rise higher (towards the Self) should be made. and so on until the last of all to be formed is As long as there is a downward movement semen. Semen is the extract of the body. Just (adhogaman) of semen, there is beastliness. as clarified butter, (ghee) is the extract of milk; the essence of food is semen (virya, Upward movement – downward virya also means energy). So now, should movement is relative but… that essence be given away free or should it Questioner: ‘Adhogami’ and be sold at a very high price? ‘urdhvagami’ are two relative words, are Questioner: Should be sold at a very they not? high price. Dadashri: Yes, they are called relative, Dadashri: Is that so? People spend but when such a change happens in the money in order to expend it and yet you are relative, ‘we’ (the awakened ones) get a saying it should be sold at a very high price. benefit. This change is possible with our Who is going to buy it from you at a high Gnan. What we are saying is that these 10 January 2013 DADAVANI changes will continue to happen on their own worldly interacting life, goes in two results: if ‘we’ keep the Gnan present (Be the Self). one is a worldly form and other in a divine The changes do not happen because ‘we’ do form (aishwarya; Godliness)! not keep the Gnan present. In the relative Should not be misused ‘we’ are not able to ‘do’ anything, but ‘we’ are able to ‘do’ within our ‘Self-state’, and its There are two things in this world that image (photo) gets reflected on the relative. one should not waste. The first is money. All Hence ‘we’ need to maintain awakened the money in this world is going into the awareness (jagruti) only. gutters. People should not misuse money, nor should they use it for themselves. The second Energy leads to a result as a worldly is semen. One should practice brahmacharya being or in ‘Godliness’ as much as possible. The ultimate extract of Questioner: If I stay in this Gnan, then our nourishment is semen, and it is dissipated would it rise up naturally on its own for sure, during sexual activity. There are certain nerves no? in the body that help preserve semen and this in turn protects the body. Therefore, Dadashri: Yes and this Gnan is such brahmacharya should be preserved as much that if You remain in Gnan, you will not have as possible. any problems, but when ignorance (agnan) arises, the disease of sexuality arises within. The science of semen ‘You’ have to maintain awareness at that time. Vishaya, (sexual act) is excretion There is endless violence in sexuality. There is (sandas). Everything that is discharged from not as much violence in eating and drinking. the nose, ears, mouth, the body; is excretion Scientists and all the other people of the indeed. Even the discharge of semen is world say that semen particles go down (drain excretion; the portion that is the result, is an down) by nature, but it is because of lack of excretion, however it does not discharge awareness of the Self (agnanta) that semen without one becoming engrossed in it. takes a downward course. In Gnan, it Excretion that happens is a result of causes changes direction and rises higher that take place within. Who does not like (urdhvagami), because of the power and doodhapaak-puri (sweet milk and fried energy (pratap) is there. Where there is bread)? But the Lord says, tomorrow morning Gnan, there is no sexual impulse. Then it it will be excreted. Why has vishaya been does not matter what kind of a body it is or called an excretion? It has been called so no matter how much in excess one eats. So because it empties-discharges (galan). the main thing is Gnan. The subatomic particles of semen (virya parmanus) in the Questioner: Is the discharge of semen subtle form go onto result in ojas (vibrations part of the nature of the non-Self (pudgal) or of vital life force) and then it does not have to is it because there is some leakage of ours, somewhere? move downwards (adhogami). This is My experience. The energies that were previously Dadashri: When you look at someone depressed and down, now begin to rise in a sensual way, a certain amount of semen upwards. The energies from eating-drinking in becomes ‘exhausted’ (used). January 2013 11 DADAVANI Questioner: That also happens with from the edges, then would you not understand thoughts. that an overflow is occurring? A wet dream is Dadashri: It becomes ‘exhausted’ an overflow. When a tank overflows, should (expended) through sexual thoughts, it even you not have a natural outlet? So if you ‘exhausts’ through a sexual look. The stock, control what you eat, you will not have wet that has been ‘exhausted’, then discharges. dreams. Questioner: But those who practice Questioner: When practicing brahmacharya, do not have those brahmacharya, is the evening meal is circumstances. They stay away from women, important? Should we decrease the evening they do not keep pictures or calendars of meal? women and yet their discharge occurs. Isn’t Dadashri: One cannot eat a lot at this a natural discharge? night; eat more in the afternoon if you want to. Dadashri: Even then, they see One cannot stop semen from discharging if ‘sexuality’ in the mind. Secondly, if he eats too one eats a lot at night. much and if too much semen is being produced Who does not have the problem of from it, then it is possible for it to flow out. semen leaking out? A person, whose semen Questioner: Can the flow of semen be becomes very strong; whose semen has stopped through the power of mind? become very thick, would not leak out. Others have semen that has become thin. Dadashri: The power of mind works a lot. It is only the power of mind that works. Sexual pleasure becomes bland, as the But it has to be in conjunction with Gnan. Science is understood The power of mind would not stay on its own. The activity of eating and drinking that Solution for wet dreams you see are all the results of the non-Self and they are in the form of galan (effect, discharge, Questioner: Due to our intent towards output). That which is discharging is understood brahmacharya we do not like any dreams by people as, ‘I ate, I drank.’ related to sexuality, so is there a solution for that? Questioner: Is eating not considered puran (intake)? Dadashri: Dreams are different things. They are harmful if you like them and not Dadashri: It is considered puran in the harmful if you do not. Whatever the dream, it worldly language, but it is actually galan, i.e. will come again if you like it; but there is no an effect; output; discharge a cause from the problem if you do not like it. past life. Eating is puran but really it is the first galan and going to the toilet is the second Questioner: Why do wet dreams galan. Going to the city is the first galan and occur? Does it have anything to do with our returning from there is second galan. People diet? believe what they see as the truth; because Dadashri: If there is a tank of water people believe what they perceive through overhead and the water starts dripping flowing their senses as being the truth, this worldly life 12 January 2013 DADAVANI perpetuates. Only a Gnani can see it as it is Dadashri: A woman has stri veda in its original form. Only a Gnani Purush can (the suffering of the woman, the desire for see whatever is being charged; only the the male) and a man has purush veda (the Gnani can see puran through his Gnan. This suffering of the man, the desire for a female). whole world is in the form of an effect – So when the veda unfolds in the karma galan. Pleasure derived from vishaya (sexual effect, it makes them suffer. You (addressing pleasures) will become tasteless if the science those who have undertaken the vow and of puran-galan is understood. course of brahmacharya) have to be extra It is because the continuous attachment cautious here, in situations where the body for the qualities of pudgal becomes well built with flesh and blood. You tell me that discharge of semen happens to He enjoys the taste of the jalebi (fried you; this is the cause of the problem. On the delicacy soaked in syrup with condiments) one hand, you stuff yourself with shrikhand while eating it, right? It is because he is not (sweetened yogurt cream with nuts, saffron aware of the impurity, that when one eats and cardamom), fritters, jalebis, and then jalebi at night, what will be the state of that you try to stop the semen from leaking. How jalebi in the morning? Are people aware of can that be possible? The body should be that? Why do they not have that awareness? fed just enough to survive and that too, not That is because they have continuous too heavy or rich foods. It is clearly specified attachment for qualities of the pudgal (the in this book of brahmacharya. That is why non-Self complex). One is not aware that it is I have given you the book to read. Many just a pudgal; this is what has been filled (the Jain ascetics perform aambel. Aambel is puran) and that is the galan (output; excretion; eating only one food item forever. Those discharging); such awareness is not there. ascetics dunk their rotlis in water and then One feels disgusted when he sees the galan they eat it; that is why they are able to (excretion) next morning. Both are the qualities practice brahmacharya. They have to endure of pudgal only. cold in the winter and heat in the summer. It is very important to be cautious about… We do not have to endure all that, do we? Read this, what does it say? We put a blanket over us and that takes care of the cold. That is why you have to remain Questioner: ‘Maithun sangnya (sexual cautious. If you want to practice instinct) is awakened in four ways: brahmacharya, you need to be cautious. 1. The unfolding of the karma of veda Once the semen energy starts rising, its mohaniya. upward flow is automatic. So far this has not 2. Well-nourished body with healthy happened. Its nature is still one of discharge bones, flesh and blood. (Due to food) and draining downwards. It is only when the semen starts rising that everything rises. Your 3. By looking at a woman. speech will be wonderful and your spiritual 4. By seeing about a woman through insights from within will blossom (to a higher chit (chintavan). level). Once the semen has progressed to a What does veda mohaniya mean? higher level, there will not be any problem. January 2013 13 DADAVANI But until then a lot of discipline must be semen energy will rise higher. After that, one maintained regarding the intake of food. For will retain the spiritual essence of any of these the energy of semen to rise higher, do you scriptures and books. Otherwise it is not easy not need to help it or does it progress itself? to retain this essence. He will forget as soon Questioner: We have to help. What as has read anything. do we have to get rid of as far as food is Questioner: Yes, that is exactly what concerned? We have to remove fried food happens now. and oil, do we not? Dadashri: Now, only if the semen has Dadashri: Nothing is to be discarded been raised higher internally (urdhvagami) or absolutely avoided; you just have to reduce will he be able to retain it, but not otherwise. the quantity of intake. (For brahmacharis) To diminish Questioner: Rice is the last food for vishaya (sexual impulses and its aftermath) one practicing brahmacharya, is that so? you should reduce up to three-fourth of the amount of your diet. First, you need to reduce Dadashri: No, that is not so about the the gross (that which is evident and experienced rice. If there is a rotlo (bread made from by the mind and body) force, and then you barley flour), then even a rotlo will do. But will need to reduce the subtle force. The there are certain foods that one should not subtle force can be reduced if the gross force consume. It will be better if one did not eat has been reduced. If the force cannot be fatty foods. reduced in the gross level, what will happen of Questioner: What about sweet foods? the subtle level? Dadashri: Not even sweet foods. Bitter Hence, as far as discharge is concerned, foods will do but within a limit; one should not nothing will happen if one controls what he eat too much bitter foods either. eats. But one keeps stuffing his body with Questioner: Hot peppers? food. Whatever food he finds and when one eats improper food, what will happen? How Dadashri: You can eat some. Black wise is a Jain! He does not eat in this manner. pepper is better than green peppers. Dry Even then there is no problem in the loss of ginger is the best for practicing celibacy. This semen in a wet dream. The Lord has said this is a problem for our brahmacharis here too. The force of a full tank will pop out the (young men and women who have taken up cork below. Until brahmacharya takes hold, the vow of a lifelong brahmacharya, after the semen will drain for sure. The rise in the attaining the Self on the Akram Path), is it energy of the semen begins with the vow of not? However, for others, in our science, brahmacharya. there is no problem, is there? In our science (vignan), one has to settle it (sexuality) It is better to proceed with caution gradually with ease. I have to say all this, Proceed with great caution. There is no because they are following brahmacharya. problem if the semen discharges in a wet Therefore, if brahmacharya is preserved in dream on its own even four times in a month, this manner for a few years with control, the but you must not discharge it intentionally with 14 January 2013 DADAVANI masturbation. That is a mistake. It is not a this; food verily does it. You should get by problem, if it happens on its own (discharge in without eating for two to three days. The wet dream). All this is the result of eating odd ascetics do that, don’t they? This is the things. To discharge intentionally is grave solution! He will have sex if he had the energy, mistake. That is like committing suicide. Who right? One has to come up with a solution, would give the freedom for this type of right? discharge? Therefore, you (the brahmachari) The result of the force of the pudgal should fast two days in a month. When one Questioner: If the force of the pudgal does such penance for two days, the sexual (non-Self; physical self) increases; its energy impulse will die. Lord Mahavir had done this increases and it gets drawn into sexuality, is very same thing, did he not? Everyone had that true? done the same, did they not? Dadashri: If there is unsteadiness in Questioner: We cannot find any solution the body and one keeps stuffing himself with to stick to this decision. food, then his brahmacharya will not last, he Dadashri: This is the solution. becomes sexual (abrahmacharya). If the body is strong but his food intake is low, he Questioner: Even though you say so, can preserve his brahmacharya. As soon as mental readiness does not occur within. the body gains its force and strength, the mind Dadashri: So then when have ‘we’ runs towards vishaya. Nonetheless, this body (the Gnani Purush) told you not to get is separate and so are ‘We.’ married? Where is the sexuality when the body is Questioner: You have not said that but weak or ill? we have seen everything! Having attained this And if a man is sick, will he have sex magnificent thing, we can never make the even if you give him five thousand rupees? mistake. Does a person have any sexual impulse when Dadashri: So then nothing can touch he has been sick for a month? you when you decide that. Once you make Questioner: He will not have the such a decision and then if you say something energy, will he? that reflects weakness, it will ride over you Dadashri: So then bring on that and take over. You should say, ‘Get out’, and sickness. so some of it will go away and when it comes again, say the same thing, ‘Get out’. Questioner: But it is not within our control to bring it on, is it? Things would be fine if one eats less; they would be if he ate to live and not live to Dadashri: So then what is under our eat. Was it better in the past when you did not control? Hence, if he remains hungry for four eat at night, or is it better now? days, he will automatically be sick for twenty days. He will not have any sexual impulses Questioner: It was much better in the after fasting for four days. Energy does all past. January 2013 15 DADAVANI Dadashri: Then why did you knowingly abrahmacharya Thought of abrahmacharya ruin that? is open beastliness. The one who does not have any understanding falls into Questioner: Two to four hours after abrahmacharya. Sometimes sexual thought eating, he (questioner talking about the self) depends upon the body. A little while ago, will ask to eat other things when he feels your merit karma had come into fruition, hungry. that your body had become weak. The Lord Dadashri: So eat the kind of food that has considered weakness in the body as will not make you hungry; eat dry foods in punyai (merit karma effect) in this current which there is no heavy nourishment like milk, time era. It saves one from going into a ghee or oil. Eat rice, lentils and kadhee; they lower life-form (adhogati); even when one are not heavily nourishing foods. does not have the Gnan. But when the body becomes strong, then watch out when the Thinking of sexuality is overt beastliness ‘dam’ bursts. Questioner: The part making the The strength of the mind is dependent decision (nischaya) is our own, is it not? So upon the body then why do I run towards sexuality? What would happen with these celibates Dadashri: Now if a man who has if they were given a diet which will give rise to many sexual thoughts falls sick for three passions? Their mind and everything will turn months, all such thoughts will stop completely. around. This mind is based on the diet; it will On the contrary he will say, ‘I do not ever collapse the whole palace! So eat anything want this;’ so it depends greatly on the state you want to, but eat light. Physical health of the body. should not deteriorate. Daal-bhaat-rotli-shaak Questioner: The strength of the mind (lentil soup, rice, flat bread, and cooked (manobud) never developed before we vegetables) can be eaten. attained the Gnan, did it? It is beginning to Questioner: But such manobud arise now. (strength of mind) develops, does it not? Dadashri: It will arise but the strength Dadashri: No, it does not. Your of the mind depends on the health of the manobud depends on your body. Depending body. It is not completely independent. An of whatever physical pain and ailments you entirely independent manobud (strength of had at the time, your thoughts turned back the mind) is a different thing. The one who and that is why in those days you were able has the thoughts about brahmacharya is to maintain control and you found the time to called prabhavshadi (a spiritually energizing think about the nature of sexuality. That day, person). He verily is called God. And the you had pictured how bad sex is. That is one who gets thoughts of abrahmacharya what happened, but then your body underwent (sexual impulses and its consequences) is a physical change and consequently your considered an ordinary human being. From thoughts changed. When the body becomes an animal to an ordinary human being, weak, he loses interest in sex, and then when everybody will have thoughts of you treat the body with medicine, sexual 16 January 2013 DADAVANI urge will become strong. So when I saw that for the practice of ahimsa (non-violence) or your thoughts had changed, I recognized for some other reason? why they did. I recognized that it had Dadashri: These foods greatly incite changed due to this medicine. Your thought sexual impulses and lead to abrahmacharya will still change. You just keep seeing. When (sexual impulses and its consequences). These you had strong thoughts about your rules have to be followed in order to preserve brahmacharya, I felt that this state of yours one’s brahmacharya. One’s food should be will not last long; still it is great if it does stay such that his brahmacharya is maintained like that. The body will undergo all the wonderfully. All the beauty disappears because changes, and so you will change this way. of abrahmacharya, and the one who practices And you did change. So ‘we’ realized that brahmacharya becomes beautiful. He will and so ‘we’ would not say anything to you, look majestic. would ‘we’? ‘We’ realized that this poor man changed from his firm determination Questioner: We did not eat (nischaya) because of his body and that you kandamood until now. We started eating are not at fault. Therefore ‘we’ will not them after attaining Gnan, so is that not rebuke him. Otherwise thoughts that are harmful? Does it not create karmic faults? contrary to brahmacharya are worthy of Dadashri: Who incurs the fault? Where censure. Hence, you should keep seeing on is the fault in a discharge (of karma)? It is not what basis do these thoughts change? For so much for the incurring faults but if a person now, you do not make any inner intent were to abstain from eating them, it would (bhaav). Keep seeing how everything is decrease his sexual impulses. They have to do ‘setting’ in. Your intent for brahmacharya that for the protection of the brahmacharya had reached so high, that it would have blessed others. of these young men and women. There is no connection between the karma issue and the Root vegetables nourishes sexuality prevention of eating for practice of A vow of brahmacharya taken because brahmacharya. someone else has taken it, will not last. Then Root vegetables make the body restless one will do whatever he feels like. But I am cautioning you of the fact that if you want to Questioner: Dada, does it have practice brahmacharya, you should not eat anything to do with what food we eat? any kandamood (root crop) such as onions, Dadashri: It does. Yes. If within, in the garlic etc. karma, there is bad smell filled within, then Questioner: We cannot eat externally you will keep on eating food like kandamood? onion and garlic. Dadashri: It is a wrong philosophy to Questioner: So there is eating based combine the practice of brahmacharya and on this? eat kandamood. Doing so is contradictory to Dadashri: If that is filled inside (from brahmacharya. past life). You are not eating it due to your Questioner: Are these foods avoided desire. That event encounters you. January 2013 17 DADAVANI Questioner: It gets eaten even when relating to food. One can get all the energies there is no desire to eat. that are needed by eating rice, lentil curry, Dadashri: Every root vegetable makes vegetables and flat bread. The food that the body smell bad. Potatoes and everything leads to sexual passion should be avoided. make the body smell bad, and these root One should take such food that does not vegetables make the body restless build up the body, and should avoid that (chanchal). which has an effect on mental alertness. The effect of some foods leads to drowsiness Questioner: The lesser we eat the and lack of attention. This decreases better. awareness. Try to do vidhi or samayik after Dadashri: You should understand that. you have eaten and see if you can. You will If it is brought to us then we should take a not be able to do it properly. small amount of it. Gnani’s awareness for food Questioner: But we should not take Questioner: When sleep is coming on more to enjoy the taste. If we are getting the heavily and at that time one attempts to enter taste from it, then we should not take more. into that vidhi, it is very difficult to do it. Dadashri: You can have something Dadashri: No. That type of sleep is else for the taste. You should eventually stop verily wrong. ‘We’ (the Gnani Purush) deriving the taste from this. You should slowly would not eat. I would not eat at all. Thus, I reduce it. eat only that type of food that would not bring Questioner: Potato, garlic and onion on sleep. Thus I would not get tired at all. are more harmful than carrot and radish? Or There is already this much food in is it not like that? stomach and yet people of the world are such Dadashri: Everything is harmful. It that they continue to pile in more and more troubles the body, nothing else. Therefore, food. In my case, I would only eat when the you young people should definitely reduce it. ‘container’ becomes empty, and if the You still have to spend the rest of your ‘container’ is not emptied today and a wrong lifetime. experience has happened, then I would eat Take food that does not create less tomorrow afternoon. Thus the container obstacles in the path of brahmacharya will become empty by the evening, and then I would eat. These people would take in more Pudgal (the non-Self complex of the food even after the fermentative rot (sado) mind-body-speech) is a thing that can cause has come together within, and therefore the problems; it is our neighbor. When the subatomic particles (parmanus) of sleep are pudgal is viryavan (endowed with proper activated. The ‘work has been accomplished’ energy) it will not create problems. Or if one then; no? (!) eats very little, just enough to live, then the pudgal will not cause problems. Go and ask these cows and water Brahmacharya faces obstacles due to food. buffaloes how long they sleep? Ask a rooster One should maintain awareness in matters how long it sleeps? Brahmacharis (those in 18 January 2013 DADAVANI the quest for absolute freedom from sexual salvation of the disciple) all the time. I have to impulses) should not sleep! Is sleep a viable do vidhi everywhere (not only here). ‘Our’ option for brahmacharis? Sleep is for those vidhi is going on in the afternoon too. who work hard (physical labor); they sleep Questioner: Dada, is the afternoon for six hours. They are even able to sleep sleep, also the effect of food, is it its result? deeply. Sleep should be like the dozing one does several times when riding on a train and Dadashri: Then due to what else? Has then it is over and the dawn breaks. But he drunk brandy? If one has drank brandy otherwise it is all intoxication from the food then it is considered due to brandy, but do all one eats that makes him sleep this way. people drink brandy nowadays? Sleep brings veil over the Self So the solution for not sleeping in the afternoon (after lunch) is to take a walk Two things: sleep and food should be outside. It is not possible to stop this just like decreased. that. This is because you will have trouble Questioner: For that only I have then. After it gets clear, you can sit in Your stopped sleeping in the afternoon. meditation (dhyan), after that sleep will not come, intoxication will not happen. Dadashri: No. It should not be there at all. You, do not have any problem because Questioner: It is like this Dada, when now you are old. making talks and conversations with others, sleep does not come; but when anytime the Questioner: Even then, Dadaji, I have samayik has to be done, then the sleep… stopped that practice. If a small wave of sleep comes on, while I am sitting, I would allow it, Dadashri: You may be talking but but I would not lie down. while sitting, the intoxication happens within. After lunch if you walk around, for an hour, Dadashri: You should lie down and half of the food would have been digested. continue to toss and turn, so sleep would not set in. From this side to this side, after a What is the appropriate food for moment from this side to this side, from this awareness? side to this side even if sleep is trying to come Questioner: What kind of food should on heavily… we take for internal awareness? Questioner: It is not worth to take that Dadashri: The Lord has said, risk, the risk of lying down. Tirthankaras have said, they have said Dadashri: I keep tossing and turning. something very beautiful, that do not take root vegetables (kandamood) in your food. You Questioner: It is all right for you, but may have grains, but do not take these I cannot take that risk. And Dada, recently additional root vegetables. Yogurt comes next you had also stopped sleeping in the in the list after root vegetables, one should not afternoon. take excess yogurt. Otherwise daal (lentil Dadashri: I do vidhi (silent auspicious soup), rice, rotli (thin bread), vegetables, eat blessings performed by the Gnani for the comfortably. And yet Krupadudev (Gnani January 2013 19 DADAVANI Purush Shrimad Rajchandra b. November 9 have attained Self-realization), it is discharge, 1867- d. April 9 1901) has said that if there if you want to make an arrangement in that, it is increase in the flesh of the body, then no will happen if it is there within (in the matter what one is eating, he is eating meat discharge process of the non-Self) and if not only. What is the point in increasing flesh? If then it will not happen, but there is no harm. one wants to go to moksha then flesh should Now after forgetting (about who You are) not be increased at all! there is no need to do anything at all. Questioner: It is harmful to eat yogurt If you do not fast after eating… at night, is it true? Questioner: Dada, you say that Dadashri: Whatever you want to eat, following the Agnas is easy and there is no problem in eating in less quantity. straightforward, and that is true, but is it so However one will eat so much, a full pot. It easy to constantly remain in the first and will bother once in a while for sure, will it second Agnas? not? Dadashri: There is no problem in Questioner: Please explain, eating after remaining in them, but fast and see if You can sunset (ratri bhojan) is forbidden. or cannot remain in them? Dadashri: If it is possible then it is the Questioner: I did not understand that, best thing. Dada. Questioner: What is the benefit of Dadashri: Fast all day and then see that? if You can remain in them or not. This is Dadashri: That will keep awareness because dozing starts when food is in the brain. A person will not become dull. consumed. A person does not have even this much Questioner: Yes, that is right. There is awareness (bhaan); on top of that he stops intoxication of ‘alcohol’ of food. it more. So what the scripture writers have Dadashri: Now he says, ‘Brother, said, is that the whole world is sleeping with how can I live with hunger? Fast?’ Then I their eyes open, all the sadhus (saints), would say that, ‘Brother, you were taking four sanyasis (monks), acharyas (spiritual rotlis during two meals, instead take two masters). Then who is awake? The response rotlis and take some rice, so awareness is that the one who has attained samyak (jagruti) will remain.’ However one eats the darshan (the Vision of the Self, the right full meal comfortably. This is because he eats vision), is awake; rests of all are asleep. the food available as if he does not have to Therefore renunciation of eating after sunset pay for it in a restaurant, so he does not is a very elevated thing. If it is not possible, decrease the portion of food. If he has to then you can eat, there is no problem, but if spend money in a restaurant, it is it is possible then it is the best thing if you do understandable if he eats everything served in not. It is very beneficial to you. the large dish. That is a different matter, but And for You (mahatmas, those who one would do such a thing even while he is 20 January 2013 DADAVANI eating the food that is there on the table at Dadashri: No, there is no problem for home. that. Maximum obstacle is only this much; Questioner: In short, should one not everything else is not much of an impediment. eat pushtikarak (that which increases flesh Keep eating fried spicy fritters (bhajiya), eat mass, in this context) food? laddu (sweet ball) too if you want to. But Dadashri: That is a problem, if the after eating that too, there is a trouble, that if mind is stuck in that. you do not fast after eating, your chit will remain towards vishaya (sensual pleasures), Questioner: Milk? the body will turn forcefully. If you were to Dadashri: Yes, all that. There is harm if fast again then eat joyfully. So one has to set the mind is stuck in that. the account of this, right? Our Gnan is such that, it can be set. Questioner: Any kind of nourishing There is no harm in eating extra helping food? of food. Food is the support of our body. If Dadashri: Intention. With what the food is good and if you eat more then intention the mind is eating? That You have to there is no problem. There is no problem if ‘see’. you eat more rotlo, daal-rice-kadhee (soup). Intention of the mind in food If it is tasty, and if you eat, if they are filled with taste (swadishta), then also there is no Questioner: So what kind of intention problem. But there is a problem in eating of the mind should be there in food? these ‘ornamental’ things. Milk, ice cream Dadashri: One should take just enough etc., are ornamental. But mind is always food to heal the hunger, till the hunger signals absorbed in ornamental things only, is it not? stop. Beware of ornamental food Questioner: Yes. Everything is included Questioner: You talked about this in this thereafter. Is it not? Now what else food; it means that in whatever thing the mind remains? This is the final thing. is excessively stuck to (wants and remembers Dadashri: Udaya (unfolding) is of again and again), that is verily considered ornamental… what? Then the answer is, of hunger! Unfolding of the (karma of) hunger. There is a problem Dadashri: Where the mind is stuck is until the hunger is satisfied, in that there should verily ornamental. not be any other interference. The rise and Questioner: Now what if someone’s unfolding of hunger means the hunger should mind is stuck in rotlo only! be satisfied. So if it happens to be rotlo (thick dark flat bread) or daal-rice, whatever you Dadashri: No problem of that. There get, and if there is shrikhand (dessert made is no problem if it is stuck in rotlo. with yogurt and sugar and saffron and Questioner: Now if someone likes a cardamom) and puri (deep fried wheat bread) spicy-hot item. then so be it. January 2013 21 DADAVANI Questioner: But enough for the hunger one’s health should not be eaten; is that signal. Enough for hunger only. so? Dadashri: Enough for the hunger only, Dadashri: In worldly life interaction, nothing else after that. Other item should not that food which affects and harms your health come in this. There is no harm if there is should not be taken. However, after attaining shrikhand-puri. There is no problem even if this Gnan (Self-realization), if there is food there is basundi (heavy creamy milk dessert) that may hurt your health, then you may take puri. it if you feel fine with it. Otherwise take less. Questioner: Wherever there is If you eat less then you will not die! basundi-puri in a dinner plate and you eat Questioner: Should we take food just just enough for the hunger signal to stop. But enough to maintain awareness (jagruti)? then one thinks that he likes basundi, and Dadashri: Buffaloes would take adds more basundi until the stomach is ready excessive food. Buffaloes are free to take it in to burst and even then, he takes the third excess. Human beings do not have this freedom. bowl; is that considered ornamental? Attachment-abhorrence exist due to Dadashri: If the hunger is still there, opinion why not eat the puris in the ornamental category? The senses (indriya) will definitely accept a mango if it is tasty. You will Questioner: No. The hunger is over. immediately grab it and start eating when it This is the talk after the hunger is no longer comes in front of you, but why does one present. remember the mango even after eating? That Dadashri: That is all ornamental. The is because one has bound an opinion that, hunger signal should be satisfied. ‘The mango is very tasty.’ The senses do not Questioner: Whatever comes in the make you think about it; the poor senses will plate, there is no problem. It is only to eat when you bring something in front of them. complete the hunger, are we to proceed with It is your opinion that causes attachment such understanding only? (raag) and abhorrence (dwesh). You become spontaneous and natural (sahaj) when you Dadashri: You eat ten-twelve dishes of become free of opinions. ice cream; you should not believe that it is for the satisfaction of hunger. There, hunger will Attachment and abhorrence happens not quench at all. That is all shokha (fondness; the moment you bind an opinion. There is no ardent desire, passion). It is not for the attachment or abhorrence where there is no contentment of the hunger. It is not for the opinion. allaying of the signal of hunger (bhookha). Main cause of hunger is dwesh Ornamental food means that which is flesh- Does a human being eat because of mass building (pushtikarak); if it is of that raag or because of dwesh? When one goes kind, then it is a problem. to eat, does he eat because of raag or Questioner: Now, that which ruins because of dwesh? 22 January 2013 DADAVANI Questioner: Because of raag. Dadashri: So pain (dukha) happens, Dadashri: No, he eats because of pain signals (vedana) happen. When pain dwesh. signals (vedana) are suffered, dwesh parinam (the results of aversion reaction) are said to Questioner: Dada, please explain that, have happened. In the arising of the aversion- I did not quite understand that. abhorrence reactions, he will curse anyone Dadashri: When he is not hungry, the who comes in front of him. Yes, he will use poor man will remain seated. When hunger foul words if he is hungry, he may even bite burns within (bhookha laagey), pain (dukha) someone. If you are carrying food and if you happens within. The one for whom pain do not give it to him, he will bite you. This is happens, does dwesh, no? The hunger that so in the hunger for food, the thirst for water, gets lit and burns within is verily the cause of and in the hunger for sex too. Sexuality is one dwesh (abhorrence). That is the one for kind of hunger. What would happen if you do whom dwesh arises, and what if the hunger not let one go to a movie when he is ‘hungry’ does not arise at all? What if hunger for a movie? Will he do dwesh or will he do (bhookha) for sexual interaction and sexuality raag? (vishaya), hunger of/for a body, or any other Questioner: He will do dwesh. hunger does not alight at all? Dadashri: It is this dwesh that has Questioner: Then the man will become given rise to this world. Poor raag does not vitarag. have any bhanjghad (destruction-creation Dadashri: He is verily vitarag, is He issues). not? It is just the hunger strikes within; it is lit So whatever vishays (the entry into the and burns (laagey chhe). How many kinds of derivation of pleasure from an external thing hunger get lit up within him? or person) that are out there in the world, Questioner: There are endless kinds those vishays give dukha (pain). Therefore of hungers, are there not? dwesh (the spectrum of ‘dislike-aversion’ to Dadashri: No, say, there is nothing ‘abhorrence’) happens to him. This is to say about any hunger, today you say you want to that he tries to extinguish the pain through remain in bed and not get up to go out. Even dwesh. Much later, man learnt about good- then, will the hunger not arise? Will it leave bad; the subtle differentiation that this is a you alone? May be it will leave you alone Ratnagiri Keri (a very special tasting mango after a day or two? Will it? variety that grows in Ratnagiri area), and this other one is this, etc. He learnt that raag (the Questioner: It will arise - light and spectrum of ‘like’ to ‘attachment’) after many burn. eras of time. Raag never used to be there at Dadashri: So then what happens to all. When would one want a Ratnagiri Keri? him within? What if the other kind is available and this Questioner: Irritation and boiling Ratnagiri is simply not available at all? happens. All these necessities that human beings January 2013 23 DADAVANI have, they all verily intrinsically connected Dadashri: So dwesh will not go away with dwesh. Raag has arisen later. Thereafter at all. That is why ‘We’ give You this vitarag starts the picking and leaving, choosing and Gnan and thereby have made You discarding (veynaveyn) like this is better than vitadwesh. this, this is better than that; that is better than Questioner: Hunger sparks and flames this, this is better than that; but does one say everyday, then how can one say that he has good or bad when he is hungry? become vitadwesh? Rise-fall according to inner intent Dadashri: It is when you understand Questioner: One who is very hungry, this science; it will show you. This science still he will have more dwesh, is that so? remains to be understood by you, does it not? They all (mahatmas) sit here having Dadashri: Yes, yes, when there is less understood who is getting the hunger signals flame of hunger, there is less flame of dwesh. and whom they are not lighting-burning. They He will have less dwesh if he is less hungry. know all that. ‘You’ know who has the hunger One who has made an intent of pangs, do You not? And those people (agnani, brahmacharya (to be free from any sexual those who do not know who am I?) only impulse) in his past life, i.e. if he has charged know, ‘I am hungry’. such a bhaav, then effect of such karma of If one did not feel hungry or thirsty, brahmacharya will unfold in this life. He will these sadhus (monks) would not come out not have hunger for sex or anything sexual, of their monasteries. Raag has arisen later. after that, the effect of the intent made in Raag means that this is good and this is bad; past life unfolds. Hence his dwesh it is the part that has arisen later. The root of (abhorrence) in any matters of sexuality is all this has arisen from here. If one grabs gone. So in that matter he has become hold of the root of this, then His work is vitadwesh (without aversion-abhorrence at done, for sure. all). Furthermore, in whatever matter the hunger does not spark-get lit (laagey), in Therefore, You have been made that he has become vitadwesh. vitadwesh. Now You have to remain with Me and become vitarag. Sit with me however Questioner: There is bound to be much you can. Get whatever benefit You can hunger, as long as there is the body. get, out of sitting with me. And one has one Dadashri: No, but if one has made a life, two lives, three lives, five lives, or at the bhaav (inner intent) of brahmacharya (in most fifteen lives before attaining final moksha, the past life); such a one will be free from but he is not going to incur any other loss, is this one hunger of sex. The other types of he? And the bliss of ‘That’ is being experienced hunger will surely spark and flame up by us all, no? (laagavani). Be with the Gnan of vyavasthit Questioner: Yes, the hunger for food What ‘We’ have said is that do not be will be there for sure, so then will dwesh contemptuous towards food. Whatever comes never go away at all? in front of you, do not have contempt towards 24 January 2013 DADAVANI that. Now it (rejection) is not Your task, after maintain separation from him, and talk to attaining Gnan (Self-realization via Akram him. This is because the Self does not say Path). anything at all, but it is the energy called pragnya within which says, ‘you will be In the kramic path one has to proceed better off if you eat less’. Otherwise if the further after burning the stomach (let the ego were to try to do it, it would come alive. hunger pangs burn through inflexible ego). Your ego has become nirjiva (lifeless) since This is not the path of burning the stomach. you have attained the Gnan. If you end up Whatever may be there outside, is vyavasthit eating more even after you decide ‘I do not (scientific circumstantial evidence). Today the want to eat much’; then it is vyavasthit. food that is there in your dining plate, is vyavasthit. If it is bhoosu (mixture of salty Make a safe-side through science and spicy fried things of various kinds, used You have been given all the freedom to as a quick snack), then also it is vyavasthit, eat and drink whatever you please, have you and today if it is not, then also it is vyavasthit. not? Had I objected to all that, many people If indigestion happens it is vyavasthit and if would not come here. You have been given the hunger is not completely satisfied, then the freedom to eat all the laddus and jalebis also it is vyavasthit. So ‘We’ have not kept you want. Krupadudev has said, “If you get a external pain for you. People are trapped in plate of your favorite food, give it away.” Did this very pain. Laws like, this you can see and anyone ever give it away? Has any such this you cannot see. The world is trapped in person been born who has given away his such interferences (dakhas). We have favorite food? Is there any such person likely absolutely stopped You from such to do that? Only the Gnani Purush will do interferences. such a thing. Whereas I have told you, Just check this a little ‘leisurely enjoy your favorite foods. Eat mangos. Drink the mango juice.’ No one else In the current time era, the has given such a freedom. Not a single circumstances that allow one to have control scripture is saying that this moksha is possible are not there at all! On the contrary, if you while living a worldly life. But I have given this try to restrict the mind, it will become even Gnan, so you will not have any problem. If I more restless. So let go with the vision of show you the problem, you will run away, will ‘the eater is the one who is eating’, but make you not? You have met me, and so beautiful is sure that it does not harm your this science! Then take the benefit, will you? brahmacharya. See just that much. There is This is ‘our’ discovery. This is very high kind no need for ‘us’ to tell you whether or not of discovery. This is a new scientific discovery you should control your eating. Only that, if of mine. This Gnan is the collective knowledge ever sexual impulses are bothering you, if the of all the twenty-four Tirthankaras. Our force of the unfolding karma is heavy, then science is such that it creates a safe-side in no you should have control over the food that time. Even God will not question such a safe- goes in. And purushartha (progress as the side. Self) is to converse with the self, You have to say something to Chandubhai; You have to ~Jai Sat Chit Anand January 2013 25 DADAVANI PujyaDeepakbhai'sUKͲGermanyͲSpainSatsangSchedule(2013) Contact telephone no. for all centers in UK + 44-330-111-DADA (3232), email:[email protected] Date Day From To Event Address

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