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Dadashri: Yes, that is exactly what I am trying to tell you. All these relatives are temporary adjustments! And You yourself are permanent! Now, if You yourself are permanent, and these adjustments are all temporary, how can you reconcile the two? Are You not also permanent?
Questioner: How can I tell that?
Dadashri: Do you have a next life (punarjanma) or not? Have you had a past avatar (incarnation; birth; life) or not? You are not even sure of that, are you? But if you believe in reincarnation (punarjanma), then it means that you have become permanent.
Any kind of temporary thing cannot understand another temporary thing: only a permanent thing can understand a temporary thing as temporary. Would you not know that this glass could break? Will these glasses (spectacles) break? Therefore, you are permanent. And these spectacles are only a temporary thing. Only the permanent thing can understand the temporary as temporary. One temporary thing cannot understand another temporary thing. How can the temporary understand the temporary? Therefore, only if it is permanent, can it understand the temporary as temporary. If there were no permanent thing in this world, then would there be any point in calling temporary, temporary? You are able to say temporary, because there is something permanent. Otherwise, would everything not have been temporary? Can your intellect (buddhi) grasp this?
Questioner: Yes, because there is a permanent thing, there is also a temporary thing.
Dadashri: Yes, it is because there is a permanent thing. Based on that, all these other things are considered temporary. And one is able to understand that, this is fragile (takalaadi), this is fragile. The glass cup is fragile. Would you not be able to understand that? If you dropped this copper cup, you would not be too alarmed. But what would happen if you dropped a glass cup?
