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Narsinh Mehta that his wife had passed away and so he began to sing.
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'Bhalu thayu bhangi janjada, sookhe bhajishu Shree Gopal' 'Indeed it is a blessing that this worldly burden is broken. Now I can worship the Lord peacefully!'
Is one not obligated to carry out the worldly responsibilities? But instead people do crazy things, whereas the Gnani Purush does not fall short in his worldly obligations. Even in 'our' worldly dealings, 'we' play 'our' worldly role very precisely. In the performance of drama (duties; obligations) such precise exactness of playing the role defines the Gnani. Whenever and whatever role 'we' have to play, 'we' play that role completely and exactly. When 'we' go to work, everyone says, "Here comes the boss." So 'we' act like a boss. When I go to visit my mother's hometown, they call me a nephew and so 'we' play the role of a nephew. In the train if someone asks me, "Who are you?" I tell them I am a passenger. When 'we' come here to satsang. 'we' play the role of a Gnani Purush. 'We' play the role of a wedding guest at a wedding and that of a mourner at a funeral. These roles are played very precisely. If they fall short, then 'we' are not a Gnani. If a ticket collector on a train comes to check my ticket, I cannot say, "I am a Gnani Purush, I am Dada Bhagwan," can I? There I am a passenger. If I lose the ticket, I have to tell the ticket master, "I had bought a ticket but I dropped it somewhere. So fine me if you have to."
Worshippers are whimsical and absent-minded (dhuni). The word dhun (repetitive chanting) is derived from the word dhyani (the meditator). The word dhyani came to be abbreviated as dhuni. Dhuni is one-sided dhyan i.e. one-sided attention. When the attention becomes one-sided, it is said that a dhun has begun and one becomes a dhuni. One becomes engrossed in a circumstance that arises and keeps going round and round in that very circumstance and hence he is considered a dhuni. He
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needs to become a dhuni in his own Self so that dhyata (the meditator), dhyeya (the focus or the goal) and dhyan (the action that links the two), become one.
Questioner: Is being whimsical the same thing as being
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Dadashri: It is related to a dhuni. A Dhuni does not care about money. If a dhuni were to come to 'us', his work would be done. People do not let dhuni people be happy in this world; they will keep goading and picking on them. Poor worshippers take a lot of abuse. Poor Kabir took a lot of abuse from people. Kabir once felt pity for a young couple walking around in Delhi, each with a baby boy and girl in their laps. He was overcome with pity for the state of this couple, wondering how they were surviving and so he climbed up on a hill and began to sing loudly:
'Uncha chaddha pukariya, boomat maari bahot, Chetanhara chetajo shirpey aayi mot.' 'Climbing a hilltop, I have yelled countless number of times Beware Oh nurturers of life, death lurks around the corner.
What are you roaming around with kids at your waist when there is an impending doom of death on your heads? So this young couple and all others stopped to see what this crazy person was singing. Then they all beat him up. Kabir was a true devotee and a pure man and so he took a lot of beating!
One must not speak the naked truth. What should his speech be like? It should have the following four qualities: It should be beneficial to others (hiit), it should be brief and to the point (miit), it should be pleasant to the listener (prit) and it should be the truth (satya). No matter how true what you say is, what good is it if it is not pleasant to the other person? This is a task for only the Gnani. Only a Gnani has speech with all four of these qualities. Whatever he says is always for the benefit of others; his speech is never uttered for his own self gain. The
