Essence of All Religion

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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The essence of all religion
become spoilt and that which we express in the present life. All that is the result of our last life.
Dadashri : Yes. In this current life you are not responsible and furthermore it is beyond your control. Right now you are not responsible. Why do you become restless when you cannot change anything?
The essence of all religion smoking this pipe from within you are making the bhaav that, 'I should not be smoking, offer anyone a smoke, nor should I be encouraging anyone else to smoke..."
Dadashri : Yes, the meaning behind that bhaav is that 'I am not in agreement with the action that is going on.' That is what I am trying to say. When the time is right, this hukka (water-smoking pipe) will no longer be used. Now, 'l' am not attached to it, it is attached to me. So a time will come when even this smoking will cease.
For example, when you go to someone's home unannounced, the person who opens the door will welcome you, but from within he may be annoyed at your unannounced arrival. In this situation his outward behavior is positive whereas his inner bhaav is negative. Compare this with what we have said about smoking. The outward behavior is negative, but the inner bhaav is positive. The other person is spoiling everything from within, by having a negative bhaav even though his external behavior (result of past life bhaav) is positive and good.
Questioner : This is the wonder of Akram Vignan, Dada. That which is spoilt from outside, is being improved from within.
Nowadays even the religious teachers tell their disciples that they cannot come to see them unless they improve. The disciples plead with their gurus and beseech them to help them, as they cannot improve, no matter how hard they try. Alas! Such rampant misunderstanding prevails
Questioner: When one does something wrong, he feels intense suffocation.
Dadashri : Yes, and as a punishment that poor disciple will be made to fast for about a week. He will torture the poor body unnecessarily. It is the mind that is at fault here, and yet it is the stomach that is being tortured. What is the poor person to do? The mind has erred but the body receives the blame. Where has the poor body erred?
What is the point in trying to clean the external (conduct), over which we have no control, and then what is the use of complaining afterwards? Really it is the internal that needs to be cleansed and purified. All these people are trying to clean the external; they dunk their bodies again and again in the river Ganges. What good do these rituals accomplish? One should dunk their mind, their buddhi (intellect), their chit inner complex of knowledge and vision). One should dunk his ego. Have you ever given these a bath? No wonder they are so dirty.
Dadashri: Yes that is why we are satisfied. Never mind if the current situation (this life) is spoilt but at least the next life will be better. That which is ruined is history but at least the new one will be improved. Elsewhere people insist on trying to improve this current life. Let it go otherwise you will ruin even the next life.
Questioner: We are not responsible for that which has