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Aptavani-4
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But the laws of nature are different. The laws that carry one into a higher life-form are different from the laws that drag one down to a lower life-form. Nevertheless, everyone's desires will be fulfilled for sure.
The law of nature is such that if one desires something and the desire is immediately fulfilled, one is slipping down into a lower life-form. And if you have a desire for something and you do not get it, but when you do get it, you no longer desire it, it will transport you to a higher life-form. That is a good thing.
Questioner: Some people's desires are fulfilled the very moment the desires occur. What would you call that?
Dadashri: When a person's desires are fulfilled immediately, he becomes so full of himself (intoxicated with ego) that he cloys himself to the point of death and heads for a lower life-form. Because the nature of the mind is such that once it finds a place to jump around in, it will keep on jumping.
This is Kaliyug (the current era of the time cycle characterized by lack of unity in mind, speech and body), and so the fulfillment of desire increases a person's ego, and the ‘wagon' goes the wrong way (crazed ego). Therefore, it is better to stumble and fall in this time cycle. Desires are fulfilled because of merit karmas (punya). Because people's desires get fulfilled, they create all kinds of tumult. They squander their merit karma (punya), and that gives rise to all these entanglements. Isn't that all because of the mad ego? Therefore, in this age, this tripping and stumbling to acquire the higher state, is more beneficial to you.
How wonderful Nature's arrangement is! For those who are to go to a higher life-form, Nature arranges everything for them according to their desires, but only after their desires die. And those who are to go to a lower life-form, Nature arranges it so that their desires are immediately fulfilled. Therefore, understand this fact about Nature.
