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anger-pride-deceit-greed (krodh-maan-maya-lobh), do you? What if someone were to provoke you?
It is like this: if a man is sitting at Udhana railway station and he says, “I wanted to get to the last station on the Western railway, and I have reached there', I would say to him, ‘son, do not sit here. You have to go much further ahead.' 'Get on the train, without further ado!' I would tell him. So what is my job? It is that I would get them up, from wherever they might be sitting around, and settle them down. That is my business. Nothing can come out of believing everything in your own mind.
Questioner: Now I feel like I want to be free from the worldly life (nivrutti). So help me become steadfast on that path. I do not want anything else.
Dadashri: That is fine. “We will do that for you. You are right. It is only good if the disease of the worldly life (sansar) goes! The thing is that the disease of the worldly life is not easy to get rid of! This worldly life disease is not something that goes away! If the disease on this side decreases, then it augments on the other side.
Questioner: That goes on anyway in life.
Dadashri: Yes, it will go on. That is precisely what I am saying! Therefore, neither the name goes, nor the ‘my-ness' (mamata) goes. If you put something somewhere, you will continue to remember it. What is the reason for remembering it? Have you placed a link (taar), a connection there? Have you made a connection (taar)? But no! Even without a link (taar), it remains in your consciousness: 'I have put it down. I have left it in such and such a place'.
Questioner: But if one has put it somewhere, he is bound to remember it. What is there to remember if he does not put it there in the first place?
Dadashri: No, that is not what I am saying to you. These
