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beings are just like these bubbles. They come into being through circumstances.
Circumstances may be the same but they may be agreeable to one person and disagreeable to another. Such is the case with every circumstance. One person may like them while another may not. You may accumulate things you like, but there is no telling when the separation may come. You have no idea when the accumulation of agreeable circumstances will dissociate. Moreover circumstances come in succession, one after another but succeeding circumstances do not come before the dissociation of the previous one.
There are two types of circumstances : agreeable ones and disagreeable ones. Disagreeable circumstances are the fruit or effect of demerit karma (adharma), and agreeable circumstances are the fruit of merit karma (dharma). The fruit of the state of the Self (svadharma) is liberation.
Sorrow is at the root of all circumstances, whether agreeable or disagreeable. One feels sorrow as agreeable circumstances come to an end and sorrow when disagreeable ones come together. And under the laws of nature, both are subject to association-dissociation and dissociation-association.
The Lord says there are good circumstances and bad circumstances. People label it a bad circumstance when a person starts to think and behave negatively. If someone gets arrested, it is a bad circumstance and if a person attends satsang, it is considered a good circumstance. In this world association or integration of circumstances is puran (input) and dissociation or disintegration of circumstances is galan (output). There is nothing else besides these.
It is as difficult to dissociate or disintegrate, as it is to associate or integrate.
The taste of excitement and joy always comes prior to the event or coming together of agreeable circumstances. As long as there is a balance, there will be a taste or sensation of joy. As you start using up the balance, the taste starts to diminish. If a pilgrimage was scheduled to start at seven thirty on Sunday morning, the excitement for it will begin and the balance of joy will gradually go down from the moment the train leaves on Sunday morning until there is none left.
The moment circumstances come together, they begin to move towards dissociation and as soon as they dissociate, there begins another association of other circumstances. As the evidences of one set of circumstances arise and begin to dissociate, the next set of circumstances begin to associate.
Circumstances are for the purpose of arriving at a final conclusion (about the puzzle of life); they come so that one may analyze and experience them, but instead people get sidetracked or become stuck in a corner. They get married and then look for happiness. Is happiness to be found in a wife? Does it lie in having a baby, or a father-in-law or a mother-in-law? Where is it? Why don't you try to analyze this? People harbor hatred and abhorrence but they do not bother to analyze the reason behind them. All worldly relations are relative relations, they are not real. They exist in order for you to be able to arrive at the final conclusion. Those who do so experience less raag-dwesh and become seekers on the path of liberation.
Besides the human life form there is no other life form that has the privilege of liberation. If one is fortunate enough to acquire a human life form, fortunate enough to meet with circumstances for liberation and find the right vehicle, then liberation is attainable. Liberation is only attainable when such circumstances come together.
The only pure circumstance is a meeting with a Gnani.
