How can we know whether one is striving for the Self?
Questioner: What does loye mean?
Dadashri: ‘Namo Loye Savva Saahunam.’ Loye means loka. It means our universe. So we are saying, ‘I bow to all the sadhus that are in this universe’.
Questioner: When a person performs sadhana (what it takes to attain) for the Soul, does that mean that he or she can experience the Soul?
Dadashri: Atma dasha Sadhe means to move fast towards the experience of the Self. What is the meaning of sadhana?
‘Atam bhavna bhavta jeev lahe keval gyan re’
Striving for the Self, one attains the perfect Self.
But first he should have the inner intent of experiencing the Soul. When I bestow the realization of the Soul upon you, that Gnan verily is Atma dasha, the state of the Self. Once awakened to the Self, such a being will continue to make progress in the domain of the Self. Some even attain the state of upaadhyaya.
Who can be called a sadhu (ascetic)? Anyone who attains the Self is a sadhu. A sadhu’s conduct is always focused towards liberation. However, the conduct of the sadhus of these times is contradictory. One is only able to work continuously towards one’s liberation after having acquired the Self. A true sadhu means to progress towards the state of absolute liberation. Nevertheless no one is to be blamed; no one is at fault here. They are all trapped because of ignorance; it is not their wish to bind new karma.
Where there is obstruction, there is no sadhu (one who lives and strives after only the Self). A sadhu is a sadhak (one who strives for the Self), not a badhak (one who obstructs). He is just a sadhak only.
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