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Aptavani-4
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What is there left for you to do? Worldly interaction was going on before your birth and it will go on even after you are no more. You are needlessly stuck in the belief that you are running everything! The world runs and it will continue to run. You just eat, drink and go to sleep. Relax and go take a stroll on the Juhu beach! Why must you be so restless? You are relentlessly spending your entire day just running around working in restlessness, as though you are never going to ‘end up on pyre' (die)! Of course, if you were to live for yet another five hundred or a thousand years more, you could understand why someone would say, 'Let him be restless, the poor man still has another thousand years to get through!' But there is no telling when you will ‘go on the pyre' or when you will drop off after a heart failure. One may have passed all one's exams at school, but one fails here!
Understanding Real Religion
A person practices his religion every day, but all day long he runs around in turmoil and restlessness. The Lord tells us that it can be called religion if it brings results. If all devotees just thought about this much, they would start wondering about why their religion has not yielded anything for them. No matter how much soap they use, the clothing still stays the same. So is it the soap's fault, or the one that uses it, or the clothing itself?! If artadhyan (adverse internal meditation that hurts the self) and raudradhyan (adverse internal meditation that hurts the self and others) continue to occur with the same intensity, wouldn't you realize that there is a mistake somewhere?
Do you understand what artadhyan and raudradhyan mean?
Questioner: No, would you please explain?
Dadashri: If five people came to your home as guests, at eleven o'clock at night, would it affect you at all?
