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Questioner: Dada, surely memory will have to be
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Dadashri : This memory itself tells you that it wants to be cleansed, erased. There would be utter confusion if there were no memory. What would you erase if there were no memory? How would you know where your attachment and abhorrence lie? Memory arises for its spontaneous resolution. It comes forth so the link to attachment and abhorrence may be erased. So erase whatever comes forth and when you do that you will free yourself. You remember only because you have the link to attachment and abhorrence here. You should repent for it and make a firm resolve never to repeat that mistake and thus erase it. You can wipe it (raag-dwesh) out by doing just this and that memory will leave forever. Real Gnan is the Gnan that will make you forget the world.
Comfort In Discomfort
The Lord has said to seek out comfort in discomfort. Comfort lies only in discomfort but one should know how to look for it.
People find discomfort in the sofa they have had for a few years, because they find it outdated. People create discomfort in situations of comfort. Some even sit on an easy chair and yet remain uneasy. Mooah! During your entire life you are allowed to be uneasy just once and yet you spend the entire day being uneasy. The whole daylong you spend crying out your pain and sorrow. In Bombay there is an abundance of happiness and yet people pass their days being unhappy. Discomfort and inconvenience is when your brand new sofa breaks within five days of purchase. But here you create discomfort as an excuse for a new sofa; you create discomfort in a perfectly comfortable sofa. A woman sees new sofa (imported furniture) in her neighbor's home and pesters her husband for weeks to buy
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them for her, so he buys a new sofa on credit. But when that sofa breaks, her heart is set on fire. Mooyee! Everything else can burn but do not torment your self! You should never imitate anyone. Only those with lesser commonsense do so and suffer in the process. Besides, which household nowadays does not have sofas? Why must you have the same? You should be original and be yourself, instead of imitating others. Why not furnish your family room the Indian way with a nice futon mattress, fresh white sheets and plenty of pillows? This way you do not have to imitate anyone and at the same time have great comfort. What does a person truly need? He or she needs something to eat and drink, something to wear and a place to live. Today people have created new miseries. In reality there is no such thing as unhappiness in this world. It is through lack of understanding that people have created so much unhappiness.
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Your neighbor may invite you to his home one day and not the next. Why do you have to be invited everyday? When he invites you, you feel that he respects you and that comforts you. And when he does not invite you, you feel that he has no respect for you and therefore you feel uncomfortable. You should have an attitude that it is fine if he invites you and it is also fine if he does not.
There is infinite bliss within you but you do not know how to uncover it and experience it. There is only one kind of bliss but the society has created so many different levels. You can only experience true bliss when you understand the true reality of this world. How long are you going to live in this imaginary and perceived happiness? But then what can you do, now that you are already trapped? I will tell you what this trap is like.
A baniya (usually a Jain businessman) and his very close Muslim friend were taking a walk, during Mohrrum (the first month of the Moslem year). On the way they meet Tajiyas
