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your worldly interactions are concerned, you will even have to tell your mother, Mom, I do not like being away from you.'
Even your mother will say, "Son, I do not like it without you,' and the one within (You) know that it is a relation that will end or is prone to end (chyuta). This entire worldly life is like a drama. From within You know that, 'I am pure Soul Shuddhatma, and this drama of the worldly life has to be played out in the name of "Chandulal.' There is no attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh) in this drama. In a drama, people quarrel and fight but there is no raag-dwesh in it. This drama that is currently taking place has already been previously rehearsed in the past life. That is why 'we' say everything is vyavasthit; otherwise, would a person not have changed everything around?
In this world, instead of playing his part like he is in a drama, if a man has an important position at his job, at his work he will be obstinate (aadayee) but at home he will behave in front of his wife. When you visit him at home he will say, 'Come on in and sit down,' but when he is at work, he will not even look at you. 'Hey, you! What is it about the chair you sit on at work that bothers you?' Does it make you arrogant? He will go around thinking, 'I am this... I am that.' Hey, man! What is so mighty about you? At home, your wife bullies you!
Should you not understand something at least? There is a mutual relationship with everyone that you interact with. What is the world? It is mutual existence. Regardless of whom you are interacting with, whether it is a collector or a servant, you should maintain a helping and obliging nature; there should be an intent mutuality.
[22] Where is the pain in this Life for You?
There is no pain (dukh) or misery in your worldly life. Pain and misery are endured by patients in the hospitals when they have to sleep with their legs suspended. Pain and misery are in the severely burned patients. What pain (dukh) do you have that you complain unnecessarily? You deserve to be thrown in jail for six months! When you call good things bad, what will you call "bad"? In the hospitals, where there is pain and misery, call that pain and misery, but why do you claim pain where there is none? In my whole life, I have never said that I have pain and misery (dukh). How can you say that? Are you a fool to speak this way? Pain worth two pennies, four pennies, eight pennies, twelve pennies; can it all be called the same?
People sick in the hospitals have true pain, not you! People have their legs in traction; people are suffering from burns; go and see them. Then you will realize that your pain is nothing. People have no awareness of how wonderful a place nature has given them to live in. They criticize good things as well as those which are not so good. Complaining and criticizing is their business. How can you call this humanity? Should there not be some kind of a limit as to what one can regard as difficulty? 'Today I did not have an appetite so I could not eat; today I have this difficulty. What kind of madness is this?
When my hip was fractured and it was suspended with weights, some people said, 'Why does God have to give you this kind of pain and misery? For sure, now there is no God!'
Hey, you! Where has God hurt me? It seems that way to
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