Awakened Awareness Against the Sweetness of Kashay
What obstructs the path of moksha (liberation)? Kashay. Attachment-abhorrence, angerpride-deceit-greed; all these generate pain [to others and the self]. That itself is what is referred to as kashay. The kashay of abhorrence causes pain; that has been experienced, but many times the question arises that attachment does not cause pain, so why is attachment referred to as a kashay? Dadashri says that attachment does not cause pain, but attachment is the seed of kashay. Seeds are sown through attachment, then when the result of that comes, abhorrence will arise on that day. And through that, worldly life perpetuates.
All living beings like favorable circumstances, circumstances associated with attachment or those that are sweet. If the slightest of unfavorable or bitter circumstances emerge, then those circumstances are disliked. Abhorrence arises towards those circumstances and efforts are made to get away from them. It is not that kashay only arise in unfavorable circumstances, kashay also arise in favorable circumstances. The kashay of unfavorable circumstances are pride and anger, which fall under abhorrence. Kashay that arise in favorable circumstances are characterized by ‘coolness’, they are sweet, they are the kashay of attachment, they include greed and deceit. The tubers of these are not destroyed quickly. Those kashay make one wallow in and remain stuck in worldly comforts, and make one wander for infinite lifetimes.
After attaining Akram Gnan through the grace of absolutely revered Dada Bhagwan [Dadashri], attachment and abhorrence do not remain at all for mahatmas. Now what is visible is discharging attachment and abhorrence. Now mahatmas should only carry out the Purusharth (progress as the Self) of maintaining awakened awareness against the discharging kashay of attachment and abhorrence.
Dadashri used to always say that before attaining Gnan ‘we’ used to be continuously cautious of favorable, sweet circumstances. This is because that sweetness ( meethash) makes one ‘doze off’, it dims jagruti (awakened awareness), whereas bitterness increases jagruti. When it becomes understood that the bitter result is sweet and the sweet result is bitter, then it will be possible to go to moksha!
What is the basis of this sweetness? This sweetness prevails because of the ingrained wrong beliefs of worldly life due to ignorance of the Self, since time immemorial. After mahatmas attain the pure Soul, now whatever discharging sweetness arises, that they cultivate the parinaamik drashti (the vision that can see the end result of anything) against that, meaning that from the point something feels sweet, they maintain the jagruti that they will suffer a beating, and alongside, the jagruti that the pure Soul does not experience that sweetness, the ego experiences it; that they carry out such Purusharth that the basis of the sweetness permanently breaks, and the jagruti rises against sweetness on the path of moksha; that is the ardent prayer.