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gone, just think as if they have eloped. And if they are still there, put them on. Do not spoil both situations! Just for the sake of fifty or a hundred rupees, why spoil your relationship with God?!
Questioner: But isn't this an everyday occurrence?
Dadashri: They do not disappear every day. It is just a fear one has.
Questioner: They are likely to go!
Dadashri: It is only the one who thinks too much about them, that loses them. His shoes are more likely to disappear. For someone like me, who never thinks about his shoes, they stay in place, where I left them. They would never go anywhere. That is a law. Religion protects!
Questioner: If we have faith in religion, will it protect us?
Dadashri: How can you keep faith? When your intention (daanat) is wrong, how can you maintain faith? Your intention has to be clean, just like the Kshatriya (the warrior class). Wasn't Bhagwan (Lord Mahavir) also a Kshatriya? A person with clean intention would tell his shoes, "Go if you want to, I am off to worship God." You, on the other hand, want this, and want that too!
Before Birth and After Death...
'Janma pahela chaalto ne mooa pachhi chaalshe Atke na koi di vyavahar re
Sapeksha sansar re...'
'The worldly life went on before birth and it will continue
after death
Worldly dealings will never stop
Relative is the worldly life...'
- Navneet
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