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invitations, to the most distant of distant relatives. Hey you! Why not invite the ones whose presence is necessary? They invite all kinds of miseries, and all kinds of miseries do come. Neither happiness nor misery has a preference as to where it goes, but it will come for sure once people invite them. But then people start protesting, why does misery come our way? It comes because you invited it just like the most distant relative.
When the women in villages get together, they talk about their happiness and their sorrows. One woman would begin, "I am going to give my husband a piece of my mind." The men when they get together are also discussing their wives. One will start, "I am going to slap her one of these days." Then look what happens. She tells him off and he slaps her. This is how the world is. How many things are necessary in this worldly life? All one needs is two meals a day and water to drink; it is fine if he does not get water for a bath. Does one have dandruff with short hair? But people grow their hair long and then have problems with dandruff. People invite unnecessary miseries.
The worldly life is nothing but a treasury of misery, where one cannot complain. One can not say a word, say anything to anyone, and neither can he suffer it. On top of that he has to swallow its bitterness. These poor bulls have to work hard all their lives and then end up in slaughterhouses when they get old. Is there such a thing as retirement for them? Animals have a lot more suffering than humans do. All one has to do is understand that his suffering is nothing compared to that of the poor animals. But here people get upset with even a pimple on their face! Noble is the one who does not let others know of
his suffering Is there any nobility in crying and complaining about your misery to others? Nevertheless, people go around telling others of their problems. Nobility means despite one's ability to speak, he suffers his misery in silence. Noble people are able to contain
their problems, because they understand there is nothing to say. Does anyone have the ability to take away someone else's problems? Is the other person able to take over your problems? Do animals come to complain about their problems? If a car runs over a dog's leg, whom is the dog going to complain to? The poor dog has to drag his leg everywhere it goes without getting any treatment for it.
Do the animals have in-laws? It is only when one comes into the human life that one has husbands and in-laws. In which life did one not have a husband? One had 'husbands' even in a dog's life and a donkey's life and yet this is what they like, do they not? Otherwise, one is the supreme soul (parmatma). One attains the human birth for the purpose of liberation, but he forgets that! There is no greater fool than the one who forgets why he has come in this world. All he has done in this worldly life is claim "This is my wife', 'this is my husband', 'this is my mother-in-law, this is my father-in-law this is mine, this is mine, etc.'; that is all one has done. But when he is sick or has a toothache and really needs someone, no one is around. When the old mother-in-law has a toothache, she tells her daughter-inlaw, "My tooth is hurting. Tell me what I can do about it." But the daughter-in-law thinks, "Why does this old woman keep complaining and nagging?" She will realize this pain when her own tooth starts to hurt, but right now she forgets the pain she had experienced in the past. People make mistakes and then they forget, and when they have to suffer the consequences of their mistakes, they question, "Why me?"
Accounts on books This worldly life is worth understanding. Who are these uncles, aunts, wives, etc.? They are all accounts on the books of karma created in the previous life. No one has realized this. If they did, they would start clearing these accounts of credits and debits. Because people do not have this realization, they create new accounts in the process of clearing old ones. If there
