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wind, fire and space; is very complex and does not remain natural. It will end up with something peculiar and new altogether. A person may have a very high social status, but people around him will say, "Don't even talk about him!" Why? Because he is useless. So is there not a need to look for the way out of this misery? How can one become free form misery?
When does a person understand there is no happiness in the worldly life? The understanding comes when one experiences problems and suffering. All accounts are filled with endless pain and suffering. But during times of happiness, one wanders about in a state of care free elation (masti) and then when he encounters difficulties he realizes that the worldly life is full of misery. Once you throw away your gold into the sea, are you going to be able to recover it? Then there is nothing you can do but cry bitterly. Similarly, how can this worldly life improve once it has been ruined? Improvement can only come through the words of a vitarag: Only He (the Gnani Purush) can give you moksha. How can you afford to have the bondage of the body, the speech, the mind, the intellect and the ego etc? All these are completely separate from the Self but you have made them all as one by saying, "I am the mind, I am the ego", and this renders you as the deluded self (muddhatma, 'I am Chandulal'). Otherwise, if you become separate from all these, You verily are the supreme Self (parmatma). You have become deluded because you believe that happiness lies in all these temporary things.
Really there is no such thing as misery and suffering: misery and suffering exist because of your wrong beliefs. Do you receive letters from your loved ones who have departed and gone?
Questioner : No, how can they come?
you will come across someone in this life who will settle this account. He will be instrumental in your receiving 500 Rupees. Once the accounts are settled, that person will leave and you will not encounter him again. People separate, they go their own way, they die. Then you will not meet each other again if no new karmic accounts are created.
This china set of cups and saucers worth a hundred dollars will be here with you as long as your karmic account is there with them. When that relationship comes to an end, they will break. When they break, it is vyavasthit and you should not keep remembering them after that. Are people also not like the cups and the saucers? You merely witness with your eyes that they died, but in reality they do not die, they come back here again. That is why, when you do their pratikraman, it reaches them. It will reach them wherever they are. Behold the One who swallows all the bitterness
Questioner : Dada, when someone uses bitter words towards me, it is difficult to tolerate them. What should I do?
Dadashri : Let me clarify that for you. Say there is a thorn lying on the road. Thousands of people walk by it and nothing happens to them. But when Chandubhai walks by the thorn somehow pierces his foot through and through even though it was pointing sideways. Experience of bitterness is due entirely to the account of karma. So when that happens, believe and understand that that much bitterness is now being deducted from the pending account of bitterness. Pleasure that is experienced is also reduced by that amount from the pending account. Yet, when one experiences pain and bitterness, he does not like it. Why does he not like the painful experience even when it is being reduced from the pending account? If he asks for more bitterness from the one who is serving it to him, if he requests the man to insult him some more, the man would not It is not under the hands of the one who is serving the bitterness.
Dadashri : That is how this worldly life is. If you have a credit of Rupees 500 in your account from your previous life,
