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will go to a higher life form. But no one shows any signs of trying to be laghutam in the relative world. Whose fault is it if people bind karma of a life in the animal kingdom by trying to become gurutam? They try to be gurutam where they should be laghutam and consequently they increase their number of legs (subsequent birth in the animal kingdom); they go from two legs to four and they even get a tail! This is because in the gurutam state their certain actions will cause them to bind karmas such that in the next life they will have two extra legs and a tail. Whereas with the laghutam belief, whatever you do will be done wonderfully. But the whole world is looking towards gurutam.
Questioner: So one becomes laghu - light and humble?
Dadashri: No, no, not laghu. They become animals with four legs! As they try to become gurutam in the relative world, gurutam will enter into the picture again. Then do we not need a solution to get rid of that gurutam? They go from two legs' to 'four legs' so that they do not fall! Otherwise, from where will we get donkeys? Where will you get these cows and water buffalos? These poor people are nice enough they become cows and water buffalos and clear their karmic debts with each other
It is all because they became gurutam in the worldly life and deprived others of their possessions. Do people not do that?
what justice is going to be served to them. They will go from a two-legged human to a four-legged creature with a tail! However, we cannot say this to these people. At the moment they are living a carefree life. What do they say? 'We will worry about all that when we fall'. So let them flaunt their superiority (rof) for the time being Laghutam in the world leads to the ultimate
gurutam, the Self The whole world looks for gurutam in the relative. So to begin with there is a desire to be guru and then they show their superiority (guruta). Then he tries to be gurutam - the highest of all, after becoming a superior. But no one has become gurutam this way. What does our Vignan - our spiritual science - say? It says, 'Laghutam in the relative and gurutam in the real.' That is our main thing.
What does every religion claim? They say liberation is through their religion. Does anyone say there is no liberation through their religion? Everyone will tell you. 'Our religion is the best. Who is the only one that can say his religion is the lowest? The one who has found the path of the Vitarags can say, 'Our religion is lower, but yours is higher. Children will always call that which is small, big. Those who are not mature will be impressed by anything and anyone. Older, mature people place themselves lower and make others feel higher and more important; they are content with that.
And we are not anyone's superior; are we? On the contrary we are below him and that is why he behaves well; he remains straightforward otherwise he would not. He will oppose you if you try to be his superior. If you say, 'I am your disciple he will be straight with you. Everyone enjoys being a guru and thus showing superiority in the relative world. There is also competition with one another. One guru will claim 'I have one hundred sixty disciples' and other will say, 'I have one hundred
There are two things people do. In the relative life guruta works in two ways: one as a super human being and the other as a beast. If a person conducts his life as a super human being where he does good deeds, he will get a life in the celestial form. The other consequence of guruta is that he will go into the animal life form first and come back into the human form after he gets rid of (pays for all the entanglements he created. I have personally witnessed this law of nature. People do not realize
