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intellect and I am telling you not to get trapped; not to 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 rules 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 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 be guilty and incur a liability.' Then why would you want to mess with anything once you enter in? 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, is it not?' No, the law says, you cannot carry it out even in 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 things, 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, 'Ah! There is no one like the girl I saw,' and she will say, 'I have never seen anyone like him in my 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).
Dadashri: Museums are always like that. But when the law is such that you cannot take anything with you, then what?
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Do you have a custom of taking things away with you in your town?
Questioner: No.
Dadashri: Then why do you fret and worry in this way? Simply 'see' and 'know' (joovo ane jaano)! When the Alphanso mango arrives, enjoy it at leisure. Enjoy them. There is no problem. Turn on the fan, turn on the air conditioner, sit peacefully and enjoy your mangos. But you cannot take them with you and you must not worry about anything. So the whole world is a museum where you can eat, drink and enjoy. People do not know how to enjoy. They eat as if there is a dagger hanging over their head (under stress). Darn your eating! The heck with it all! If you are afraid of the dagger, before you sit down to eat, tell the dagger, 'fall whenever you want to. I am sitting here to eat. Such is the state of everyone; they sit to dine with the weight of a dagger hanging overhead. And you can see it on their faces. Do you not see their castor-oilingested faces?
Questioner: Yes.
Dadashri: So eat and drink whatever you like. Enjoy your comforts. Women are not the problem, either. Do not get married if possible, but if you do, keep it as a worldly relation; understand that it is a temporary state. Do not get married thinking and believing she is yours forever. People marry as if the relationship is going to last forever. Do they not?
Questioner: Yes they do!
Dadashri: Now, You (mahatma, the one who has taken Gnan) get married and so do others. Others say 'my wife, my wife, my wife...' whereas You understand that You are settling the account of that file (of the wife) with equanimity, because You have taken the Gnan. But are you able to take anything with you even though you have claimed it as yours by saying. 'mine...mine?' Has anyone been able to do so?
