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chance? Progress, progress and then say I can't manage. But dear Brother! How can you? You are alone and the task has expanded five-fold. But that is unquenching thirst, that is greed!
I remember a brother from Mumbai, who came for our darshan at a village in Maharashtra. They were just husband and wife and had a business that had grown far and wide. He had offices in cities all over the country. He didn't have even a moment to spare.
I asked him, "Why have you expanded your business so much? Don't you have enough to keep you both happy?"
He replied jocularly, “Mahasatiji! There is enough to run not one but three births!"
“Then why do you expand the business more?" "Well, it's like a hobby with me."
Ah, look! What a hobby the jiva has? Divert that pursuit! Those pursuits which make you sin, which increase your greed, which unnecessarily get you punished, give them up and divert your energy towards the atma. Develop a hobby for satsang, for reading, a hobby for the vows and observances. Brothers! The other brother had a good time coming, so he changed the area of his hobby. Now he spends very little time on business and more in the search of atma.
I am not to get engrossed in the worldly affairs, but should regret the fact that I do what I do because I have it to do, but it is something I do not want to do. My life is the order of the Sadguru in his refuge, that is my dharma. When such a feeling pervades day and night, it is said to be the experience with the Sadguru. Only when the jiva can accept the Sadguru as the totality, can the self-conceit be avoided. Sages have said -
भव एक जो राजी करे, सत्पुरुषने सहवासथी, एनी बधी इच्छा प्रशंसे, रोम-रोम उल्लासथी;
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