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everyone and sort everyone out. Still how can I do this for everyone? I would lose my mind. Don't you think I have a lot to contend with from morning till night? How many 'files' must come to 'us' in a day? Some even tell me, "My husband did this to me. 'Do 'we' have to teach even that?
Questioner: There is not a single case, which has not come before you Dada. All kinds of cases have come before You.
Dadashri: What else can we do then? In fact 'We had said 'no' to a couple of people but a voice from within said, 'Which 'hospital' will this poor man go to? If You send him away from here, there is no 'hospital' out there suitable for him.' So then, I started dealing with such problems again. But, the mind found it bothersome. It would often prompt 'us' to push it away. Again from within that voice would say, 'Where will this poor man go? What other 'hospital' will he go to? However crazy he may be, even if he does not know how to speak, or has no manners or any redeeming qualities, no matter what he is like, let him be!
Questioner: The part that says, 'it will be good if he goes away what part is that? And which part says, 'Where will that poor man go?'
Dadashri: The part, 'Where will he go?' is that of the Lord within the Parmatma. That One is saying, "No matter how crazy he is or how disrespectfully he speaks to 'us', where will he go?' That is the Supreme Soul speaking within! No other 'hospital' will shelter such a man. As it is, they do not even take care of those who are good. And even if they were to keep such people, they do not have any medicine to treat them with. All they have is some poultice of crushed powder, which will not work here. For this, you need a special 'glue that will stick the moment it is applied.
Otherwise, who will stick his hand in this stinking mud?
But even if just one human being is helped, he can then help so many others. And when 'we' scold anyone, it is with the intention to liberate. Otherwise, who would scold in this way? Who would ruin the mind? This scolding is for the salvation (kalyan) of that person. A father scolds his son to exercise his fatherhood. More than the welfare of the son, he has the intense beggary to be the father. If a husband is scolding his wife, he does it for his beggary of maintaining his superiority as a husband (husband-hood; dhanipanu). But when the Gnani Purush scolds, He does it for the salvation of that person.
The whole world is roasting like potatoes in the fire. People of this country as well as in foreign countries, everyone is roasting in the worldly fire. When I told someone that people are roasting like sweet potatoes, he told me, 'Dada, not only are they roasting but they are now on fire! Whatever moisture there was in the potatoes has gone and now they are on fire!' Such is the current predicament of everyone in the world. What must be the goal of our' satsang? It is to bring salvation for the world -jagat kalyan. This bhavna does not go to waste.
What 'We are saying is destroy all miseries. 'We' cannot bear to see these miseries and suffering. Still 'we' do not become emotional about it. At the same time 'we' remain that much vitarag too. Despite this,'we cannot bear to see people suffering. This is because 'we' know 'our' limits of tolerance (sahanshakti). 'We know from our' own experiences and how 'we' dealt with pain and suffering, so 'we' know what these people are going through. That verily is the expression of four' compassion (karunyata).
