Aptavani 09

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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Therefore, it is worth getting your work done and that is why 'we' repeatedly keep telling you, 'get your work done, get your work done, get your work done!' The intent behind it is that this Vignan, this Gnan has never manifested in any of the time cycles, therefore you should get your work done.
So do you understand? If you had not seen anything. nothing would have happened. All this is the poison of seeing.
Questioner: Yes, it happens only because I saw it.
Dadashri: So this whole world moves about in darkness and there is nothing but hollowness in it; there is no integrity or substance to this world. 'We' have seen all this in Gnan but you have not and that is why you get alarmed when you see something. Why do you get alarmed? Such things go on all the time, but you simply don't see it. What is there to be alarmed about when you are the Self? All it is, is simply a discharge of karma of all that was charged in the past life. The entire world is clearly in the form of discharge. The world is not outside of discharge. And that is why 'we' tell you, the world is in the form of a discharge and that is why no one is at fault.
Questioner: So does the principle of karma work here
too?
Dadashri: Yes, purely the principle of karma is working here and nothing else. No individual is at fault. It is the poor man's karma that makes him go round and round. But if one has suspicion in all this, then he is doomed for no reason.
For those going to moksha
Know that you are on your way to moksha when dehadhyas goes away. Dehadhyas means to believe 'I am the body'. You are on the path of the vitarag if you do not experience any attachment or abhorrence when someone curses you, beats you or takes your wife away from you before your very eyes. Men allow it to happen because of their
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physical weakness. If the other man is strong, he will let him take his wife away.
So nothing belongs to you; everything is of the non-Self. If you want to live the worldly life, then become strong in it and if you want to go to moksha, then become worthy of it. When even your own body is not your own, how can the wife be yours? How can the daughter be yours? So you should think about all this in advance; think about what you should do if someone were to take your wife away from you.
Therefore, nothing that is destined to occur can be changed; such is vyavasthit. Therefore do not have any fear. That is why it has been said that it is vyavasthit. As long as one is spared of witnessing a scene of infidelity, one carries on saying, 'my wife...my wife'. And once he sees it, the inner turmoil begins. Look here you! It was like this all along. Do not look for anything new here.
Questioner: But Dada you are being very lenient here.
Dadashri: What 'we' are saying is that there is no sense in having unnecessary expectations in this era of the current time cycle (dushamkaal). Even the government has created divorce laws because it is aware that this will happen. That is why they created the law first. That is why always a medicinal plant will grow first and then will come the disease. Similarly, a law is created first and then the incidents take place.
'Safe-side' related marital conduct
Therefore, any man who wants peace of mind with regards to his wife should marry an unattractive woman so that no other man will be interested in her. She herself will say, 'No one else will have me, only my husband keeps me.' She will remain very sincere to him. If she is good looking, other men will enjoy her by looking at her lustfully. They will have bad intentions towards her. When a man marries a good-looking girl,