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The rules in a museum
What causes one to have mamata? It is caused by the tendency to be worldly sansaari swabhav.. This tendency to be worldly is binding. That binding, myness, is mamata. For that matter has the intellect buddhi done anything less? The world has been made wonderful through the intellect and I am telling you not to get trapped, become attached, to it. You may eat, drink and enjoy but do not get trapped and yet people get attached. Do not get attached. Enjoy it and go to sleep!
What is this world? It is the largest museum! It is a museum just like the one we have in Baroda. What are the conditions when you enter a museum with your ticket? The conditions are 'Go in, take your time and observe and enjoy as much and for as long as you want to. Eat and drink as much as you want to, if you want to, and when you want. You can enjoy doing all that in the museum. But you cannot take anything with you when you leave. If you do, you will incur be guilty and incur a liability.' Then why would you want to mess with anything once you enter it? Just enjoy the different collections in the museum. You cannot take anything with you when you leave. This world is a museum that you have entered. There is a problem only if you touch things or try to take things out of it. Then one will say, 'Sir, the problem is only when I carry it out physically, no?' No, the law says, you cannot carry it out with your mind and not with your speech either. Do not take anything out. Yet, you are free to enjoy it all. Is there anything wrong with this law?
Questioner: That is true.
Dadashri: Now is it not possible to leave the world in this same way? But people keep taking; some even put things in their pockets and walk out but then they get caught there, in the next life. And people take many things in their mind, 'Ahl There is no one like the girl I had seen when I was young.' And she will say, 'I have never seen anyone like him in miy entire life.' Hey, you!! What are you going to do with them now?
Questioner: But this ‘museum' is such that it gives rise to all kinds of covetousness lalacha.
