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(3) Prarabdha - Purusharth
What Is Purusharth? Dadashri: What purusharth (independent effort; free will effort) do you do?
Questioner: Of business.
Dadashri: That is not considered purusharth. If a person were truly doing purusharth, he would bring in only profits, but do you also not incur losses? You cannot call that purusharth. That is just a 'wound rope' (karma from past life) which is unwinding (discharging). How can you call that a purusharth? If you are doing the purusharth, then why do you incur a loss?
Questioner: That does happen too. And sometimes it is even damaging
Dadashri: No, the one doing the purusharth will never incur a loss. Who is the one saying, “I am doing purusharth”? All the people in the world are "tops” (spinning tops). A person's prakruti (non-Self complex of mind, speech and body) is making him ‘dance', and yet he will say that he is “dancing”. If you gave him a powerful electrical shock, his bones and entrails would explode. Even reading books and scriptures is not purusharth. It is all evidential effort (naimitik purusharth; his current purusharth is one of the evidences of his karma discharge).
No one has understood what real purusharth is. “I am,
