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Aego mei shashao appa, naanah dunshaan sanjuo.' 'I am an eternal Soul with the attributes of knowledge and
vision "Shesha mein bhaheera bhaava, savee sanjog lakhana.' "The rest are all my external intents, all circumstances have
recognizable attributes.' I am an eternal Soul. I am a pure Soul with knowledge and vision. I am eternal.
Whatever is left is bhaav (content and inner activity) of the non-self. What is the nature and quality of these bhaavs? They come as circumstances. They are, for instance, a negative thought a thought of marriage, a thought of widowhood, all part of the external bhaavs. And they are verily in the form of a circumstance. That which is going to dissipate (viyog) is all a circumstance (sanyog). They were invited in ignorance (past life) and they have come.
you in this life are verily the entanglements that have been created by you in the past life. Therefore, do not look at disagreeable circumstances as disagreeable, make them agreeable before they leave and that way you will not have to face disagreeable circumstances in your next life.
People tell you, "You are Shantaben; you are a mother inlaw to this person. You are this person's mother" and you have accepted and believed everything they tell you and you have become the role they impose upon you! A person will even forget his own name if he were to think too much, in the same manner if you become besieged with circumstances, you will forget the Self, this is called worldly life. In this, the only agreement that you have signed is of ignorance and the only thing that you have nurtured is ignorance. That is why ignorance prevails and proliferates.
People say, "He is a son-in-law to so and so and a father in-law to so and so... "You ask him, "Hey! How can you say you are a son-in-law?" and he replies, "I got married." To enjoy and taking a beating is called a marriage. Marriage is an agreement of one lifetime, but one thinks it is forever. And the prize for this is endless beatings in just one lifetime. And it is all because the Lord within has lost his awareness and that is why this worldly life has perpetuated.
The opinion, 'This circumstance is good' and 'This circumstance is bad' is the reason the worldly life perpetuates. If one understands and says, 'All circumstances entail suffering. then he has begun his journey to liberation. This verily is the science of the vitarag Lords. Lord Mahavir was such a great scientist. The Vitarag Lords knew that the world has come about simply because of circumstances. People turned them into agreeable and disagreeable circumstances and created raag and dwesh towards them, whereas the Lord made them both disagreeable and became liberated.
Sanjog moola jeevenah patta dookham parampara, 'At the root of all circumstances (life) lies infinite suffering
(life after life). Tammha sanjog sambandham, savvam tiviheyn vosariyami.' All these circumstances and their relations, I surrender unto
You.'
At the root of all life's circumstances lies infinite suffering life after life. All these circumstances I herby surrender unto 'Dada Bhagwan-the vitarag Lord.' This means to surrender and hence we are no longer the owner of these bhaavs. How many circumstances are there? They are infinite. How can one ever succeed in surrendering each individual circumstance, one by one? Instead if we surrender all the circumstances to 'Dada, then we become free.
The Soul has infinite energy; it has so much energy that it can procure infinite circumstances or it can obliterate infinite
