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Dadashri: So the intense greed will not leave because of fear. And he has fear, 'This pleasure of mine will go away.' Why don't you let it go? Only then will that bliss arrive.
Removing lalacha through the ego
Questioner: In a sense, is intense greed (alacha) not the fruition of one's karma; is it not the effect of one's karma?
Dadashri: Yes it is, but it is wrong, is it not? Questioner: So then what causes it to arise?
Dadashri: When the right circumstances arise, intense greed will arise.
Questioner: Will it go away if he scornfully rejects (tiraskar) the things he has an intense greed for?
Dadashri: Scorn or not but when he rejects one thing. there will arise intense greed for another. And there are many things out there, which create an intense greed within. Just as there are many things in a grocery store, similarly there are many things within a lalachu. The problem is solved only when he gets rid of everything, the whole entire stock all at once! Otherwise, rejection with scorn (tiraskar) for one thing will cause him to sink deeper into another. One day, by sitting in our satsangs, it will go away, but it will not go away suddenly, lalacha is not easy to get rid of.
There is no way to get rid of intense greed unless you do it through the ego. You have to have tremendous ego in order to get rid of it. It can be done; ask Dada for the strength and then awaken the ego, then you will be able to get rid of it through the ego. It cannot be rid of otherwise. How can you get rid of that which has become natural to one's daily life (sahaj)? You can get rid of it through your ego, but then you have to get rid of that ego later. First, you have to get rid of the intense greed (lalacha) and then the ego.
So you can also get rid of it through the ego. Then 'we' can get rid of the ego for you. Otherwise, how long will it take to remove this disease of countless past lives? If it is going to come out, it will come out in the presence of someone like 'us' otherwise you can forget about it! That is when intense greed (lalacha) goes
away Questioner: Are there any other solutions for one to become free from his lalacha?
Dadashri: Lalacha will only go away if he lets go of it himself. If he destroys it completely in every way, then only will it happen. Otherwise, it is suicidal by nature. Intense greed (lalacha) means to commit suicide. There is no written solution for it
Questioner: How can one get rid of it completely if he wants to?
Dadashri: No it will not go away completely. If he stops everything that tempts him, if he does not indulge in his intense greed (alacha) for twelve months, then he will be able to forget it. He needs to remove himself from indulging in experiencing the pleasure. The lalachu will be ready even if the temptation arises at two in the morning. He does not even care for sleep.
If he puts aside everything that tempts him and does not even think about it and does pratikraman when he happens to think about it, then he can be free. Otherwise, even writers of scriptures do not have any solution for it. Everything has a solution, but there is no solution for lalacha. There is a solution for lobh (greed). When a greedy person incurs a heavy loss, his greed (lobh) will go away in a hurry. A person hurts others because of his intense
greed (lalacha) He runs around whole day in intense greed. Intense greed
