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Are you saying, 'I am in pain? Pain is in the relative,' not in the 'real.' It is falsely projected (aropit) upon the relative as being real. Through a wrong belief, you have believed pain to be where it is not. When you say, 'I am hurting, then the pain, which is only twenty-five percent in intensity, becomes one hundred percent.
Questioner: I became one with the body, the self. So, instead of twenty-five percent, I feel a hundred percent pain.
Dadashri: The whole world believes and knows, 'I am Chandulal,' that is, they believe their relative-self to be their real Self. But you have now learned the interaction (vyavahar) of separation.
Questioner: But now if I say, 'Chandulal has pain,' will that twenty-five percent pain remain as twenty-five percent?
Dadashri: Yes, it will not increase. Otherwise, it will become one hundred percent. People are not aware and, therefore, they increase their pain by describing and discussing their pain with others.
Do people not worry constantly? There is a limit to worrying. Not everyone is a Gnani, that they have no worries at all. But should there not be some rules or principles about this? How long can you go on worrying? Worry means to keep contemplating (chintavan), 'What will I do now...what's going to happen now...?"
Here, God is being disgraced; nature is being disgraced. Then where is such a thing as justice?
One cries when a two year old child dies, he cries when the twenty-two year married son dies and he cries when a seventy-five year old man dies. Hey, you! What understanding do you get from all this? You have no understanding at all of when to cry and when not to!
Questioner: I have never used the intellect in this manner
before.
Dadashri: How is there going to be happiness in this world if it is not used in this way? Humans and animals do have happiness in the world. How can humans have pain and misery (dukh)? They just do not know how to enjoy the happiness that abounds, that is all.
It is worth giving all this information to all the psychologists. There are facts even beyond this point. As long as this 'bubble' (Dada referring to the physical body of the Gnani Purush), the living body, exists, information will come out and the work will be accomplished. Once it bursts, that will be the end!
Death and Eternal Life When we were going for a pilgrimage, everyone knew four months ahead of time. Did everyone not know that they had to take the 4:00 a.m. train? But why do people not say, 'I want to go,' when it comes to dying? Here, no one will say anything until the last moment. In fact, one keeps wishing for some kind of a miracle cure and yet when the pain becomes unbearable, he will say he would be better off dead. Even death will not come to a person until he endorses it. The income tax officers make you sign every document first. Similarly, one cannot die until one signs off on it.
Questioner: Death will not come to the one who will not *sign for it, will it?
Dadashri: It will not, if one does not sign. Do people give their 'signatures' or not?
Questioner: How can those who die in an accident, sign?
Dadashri: They too have already endorsed their death. A person can never die without signing for it. Without the signature, you have no right to die. Your death is of your ownership, no one can interfere in it. But once you endorse it, you cannot do anything about it.
