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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM - VOL 9
“But I would say, when once we have realised that these are the spoiling agents, it means some diversion has come in.” That is, if you at least understand that these are the spoiling things some diversion has already happened. You are thinking in terms of how to get rid of it. You know that it is something bad, so when you know that it is a spoiling agent you would definitely try to come out of it. “This may be taken as the first step towards vairagya or renunciation”. My question to most of you would be have you felt so? Is this so? When he says this is the first step of Vairagya and Vairagya is the first step in the path of Adhyatmika Yatra have you got at least this awareness that your mind is polluted, that it is giving you enormous problems and that you have to get out of it or are you enjoying that pollution? It becomes suffocating for me when some people use all sorts of deodorants (as they call it) on their body and in the room and then I say ‘what is this suffocating experience I have got’. They enjoy it, I suffer from that. That we are capable of enjoying filth is something that you and I should honestly accept because most of your attachments are just that, but we enjoy it. Everybody knows eating a masala dosa gives a very bad stomach and perhaps
a nuisance to others by his side, but then how many 8