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throughout time in worldly life (sansar kaad). How can this get through to people? Just half a gallon of alcohol causes changes in the sheth; whereas here it is alcohol everyday! As soon as you wake up in the morning, people keep making you drink alcohol. Do people not tell you, 'Come in Chandubhai, come in Chandubhai. You are my daughter's father-in-law, you are her husband, her uncle, his uncle'? And even you believe it. This is precisely the 'alcohol you drink, and all the while, it is making you intoxicated. This very alcohol has made you drunk, and you are saying, “How can I have drunk alcohol?' This entire world staggers around from drinking this alcohol. Moreover, when a person does drink alcohol, people blame the alcohol. Hey you! Why are you blaming the alcohol?
Who Is the Doer of Karma? After you have known the reality, there is nothing more for you to know. Thereafter, You are yourself the Knower-Seer (Gnata-Drashta), with absolute bliss (parmanandi), and the Lord of eternal happiness (sanatan sukh); therefore, no ownership remains. Besides, all the happiness (sukh) that you see in the world; is all falsely laden claim (aropit) of happiness. Where the Atma is, there is nothing but bliss (sukh), but you have falsely attributed everywhere outside, that happiness lies in these things, or happiness lies in this. That is why you get happiness from those things, but there is no bliss there. Bliss is within one's own Self.
Questioner: So who stops that illusion (bhranti)? Dadashri: The Gnani Purush can stop that illusion.
Questioner: Say I go back home after I take Gnan from you. When I wake up the next day, the illusion within will make me do the same thing again and again, telling me, ‘No, you have to do this. Or else you will not accomplish anything.'
Dadashri: No, it is not like that. Then the light (prakash)
