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butter), by adding vegetable ghee (margarine) to it. Now they resort to adulterating even the vegetable ghee! If someone says, ‘get rid of your anger, pride, deceit and greed', you should say to him, 'Sir, even I know that, but just tell me something that will help get rid of my anger, pride, deceit and greed (krodh, maan, maya, lobh).' What is the point of carrying on like this? Go to someone that has vachanbud (power and energy behind words), and whose conduct carries so much energy (charitrabud) that anger, pride, deceit and greed will be forced to leave. If a weak person can remove his weaknesses by himself, then why would he need a strong person?
When people go to listen to religious discourse, they call it shrutagnan (scriptural knowledge through listening); however, real shrutagnan is something that, upon hearing, one's disease' (of kashay) begins to subside on its own.
The Path of Attaining Moksha Questioner: How can one attain moksha?
Dadashri: There is no method for it. Moksha happens when artadhyan and raudradhyan go away.
Questioner: Even so, how does one attain moksha? From whom do we attain moksha?
Dadashri: You can attain moksha only from the Gnani Purush. The One who is himself free, can give you freedom. How can a man free others, when he himself is shackled? So you are free to go to whichever 'shop' you want to. But you have to ask there, 'Sir, will you give me moksha?' If he says, 'No, I am not ready to give moksha', then you have to go to a second one, and then to a third one. You have to keep looking until you find one that will give you what you want. What happens if you just stay in one shop? You will just end up taking a beating. The reason that you have wandered around for countless lifetimes is because you have been sitting in just one
