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conditions make them feel this way, but those conditions change. Tedium towards worldly life is attachment for it
Dadashri : Do you ever feel mentally and physically tired (kantado) of the worldly life?
Questioner : Yes
Dadashri : That is attachment (raag). You feel that way only where there is attachment; it is dependent upon circumstances. Kantado (mental and physical repulsion) is really thoughts of the mind. You should tell these thoughts, "Come. Come. However many thoughts that want to come!" Thoughts that spring forth, come from the stock that exists in the mind and they are discharging. When do they discharge completely? They discharge when You remain in the awareness of the Self but when you become engrossed (tanmayakar) with them, then those karmas become sticky and the thought will linger. The mind will show all kinds of things but You should not become one with it. You should remain just the observer of whatever is happening
On one side arises dispassion (vairaag) and inevitably on the other side there will arise attachment (raag) along with it. So, one has to investigate where the attachment is. When a person gets old (has dispassion due to the suffering of old age), he still feels it would be nice to live longer (raag for life). Is that under his control? One simply has to know and observe all the different kinds of thoughts that arise. Some will even see their own death in their dreams! The world is completely different.
There is nothing higher than attachment for a Gnani Purush and detachment from everything else. It can cure everything. What is the human form? It is worthy of worship even by the Devas; the celestial Gods. It is very rare even for the Devas to attain a human birth! Human birth is priceless provided one attains full enlightenment. Enlightenment occurs when the diseases
of the mind go away. People cannot understand the diseases of their mind. They do not have an understanding of which part of their mind is diseased and which part is healthy. When the mind becomes healthy, the speech becomes healthy and the body becomes healthy too.
One uses meditation to still the mind when it becomes agitated and restless. That will help allay the disease of restlessness, but it will do nothing for liberation. Only when the mind remains constantly under control, can it be considered cured. Constant control means it will not go anywhere. The mind can only be controlled through Gnan and only the Gnani Purush can do that. In the absence of Gnan, wherever the mind goes, it gives rise to the worldly life. Even when a person goes to the Himalayas having renounced the worldly life, he grows a rose plant, raises a goat and starts a worldly life this way. He creates a crowd even in solitude.
Nature of the mind What is the nature of the mind? When one says, "I am depressed", then the burden of the depression will increase ten fold. And when he says, "I am not depressed", then the burden reduces ten fold. If one feels he will not be able to fall asleep because of the noise from the radio, then he will definitely be bothered and stay awake. And if he feels. "I will be able to sleep", then he will fall asleep nicely. This is how the world is. You are separate from the mind, the body and speech. If the neighbor (the non-self) is making noise while doing the dishes, who is going to tell him? If you were indeed one and the same (Chandulal), then you could tell him. You are simply the knower of his activities.
The mind is well within its own dharma (nature). Would the mind be affected if no words were to enter the ears? It would have no effect. And what happens when words enter the ears? It is the nature of the mind to analyze everything. To make
