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Aptavani-4
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At present, there is ninety-nine percent pains and misery (dukh) and only one percent happiness (sukh). In Satyug (era of unity in mind, speech and body) there was only happiness.
What is the Fault of the Time Cycle?
Questioner: Do happiness and misery occur because of time?
Dadashri: This is a samsaran marg (a path of evolution for every living entity). All these living beings (jivas) are flowing along in this stream. They are progressing. How can you measure progress? When visible matter (dravya; effect of karma), location (kshetra), time (kaad) and intent (bhaav) come together, the action becomes visible. Time is evident and therefore, people give more credence to time. How much of our own ‘doership’ can we attribute to our coming into this Kaliyug (the current era of the time cycle characterized by lack of unity in mind, speech and body); dushamkaal (current time cycle characterized as a time of lack of unity in people's thought, speech and action; An era of moral and spiritual decline)? What part did we play in all that?
The entire world is experiencing relentless, unlimited inner turmoil and suffering. When someone says, “Chandubhai has no sense at all,” it affects you inside. And you feel the inner burning (antardaah). What is this inner burning (antardaah)? This is when the parmanus (the subatomic particles) ignite and burn, and when one parmanu is about to burn out, it ignites a second one, which then ignites a third one, and so on... This carries on constantly. They burn just like the electricity, and you have to suffer it as pain. When excessive parmanus ignite, people will say, “My jiva keeps burning (I am tormented)." How can you bear all that? When one's inner burning (antardaah) goes away, the drum beat of liberation will sound.
Internal Happiness – External Happiness Today's worldly science has become ‘out of balance. It
