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to feel sorry for anyone here. So why are you unnecessarily feeling sorry and saying, 'Dear Lord, save him!' How can God save him when God could not save himself? All the Gods born here did not survive, did they? Lord Krishna was sleeping with his leg up like this. A hunter mistook Him for a deer and shot him with an arrow. Death does not spare anyone because the body is not our real state, the Self. No one will interfere in our state of the Self. No one is there to touch You if you are a pure Soul (Shuddhatma). You are an absolute Soul (parmatma). But if you want to be someone's father-in-law, if you want to remain as the self, then there is a problem.
Questioner: What is the intention behind saying to the body, 'Leave when you want to, but that is not my wish"?
Dadashri: We say, "That is not our wish,' so that contempt (tiraskar) towards it does not arise.
Questioner: Who is the one saying these sentences? Dadashri: They belong to the one who is separate from
death.
Questioner: Is that called the self, the relative-self (pratishthit atma), the one who believes 'I am Chandulal'?
Dadashri: No, pratishthit atma is the one that is going to die. This is the work of the energy of the Self (pragnya) that leads to total liberation. Pratishthit atma is going to die, so it will not speak this way, will it?
Questioner: For the person in whom pragnya has not been awakened, and not everyone has pragnya, when such a person speaks, then who is the one speaking?
Dadashri: The one who is going to die is separate. The one that is going to die will not say, 'I will die.' There is some part of the intellect (buddhi) with such an intent (bhaav) and this part belongs to the state of intellect which has become still
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(sthitapragnya), but only a rare human being will have such a thought, not everyone.
Vyavasthit and Life after Life Account
You are in a hurry for an appointment and you say to your wife, 'Hurry up and give me some food.' In trying to hurry, the soup pot tumbles over and all the soup spills out. What then would be the state within you? You have to become aware (jagrut) at such a time. The one who prepares your food is doing it so that you may eat. It is not the mistake of the one cooking. And yet what do you say? 'You spilled the soup?" Hey, you! She would not spill it. She is the one who prepared it for you. The one that spilled the soup is some other energy (shakti), but it happened through your wife!
Therefore, there is no one out there to ruin anything for you. There is no one in the world out there that has the energy (shakti; power) to do so. As yet, no one is born in this world that can spoil things for you.
These are natural energies that are working here. People ask me why we have thieves. What is the need for all these pick-pockets? Why did God give them life? Hey, you! Who will empty your pockets for you if they were not around? Do you want God to personally come here? Who will come and confiscate your wealth which you have accumulated through stealing? Who will come and take away your undeserved wealth from you? You need such people; they are just the instrumental evidences (nimits) in carrying out natural justice! There is a need for all such people.
Questioner: Such people take away a man's hard earned
money.
Dadashri: There is a reason behind why all that 'hard earned money' goes away. It appears to be hard earned in this life but it is a karmic account (hisaab) from the past life. It
