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I am the Soul
201 Brothers! Consider this! Just because of the trifling selfishness of feeding the ego, how many minds do we set afire? How many relations do we strain? How many jivas become thwarted from religion because of you? How many enemies do you make? Then with all these, what else can happen but a bondage of Mahamohaniya karma? Hence, dear Brothers! If you can, then serve the society and the community, and if you cannot, just get out of the way. But never become a cause for conflict. Only if you want the bondage of Mahamohaniya Karma and the wandering in the wheel of eighty-four, get into the game of power. Otherwise stay away from it.
There are thirty ways in which you could get bound in Mahamohaniya Karma. We cannot discuss all those here. Let us look at just one more.
Forgetting the benevolence of the benefactor, if one begins to hate him, then one binds Mahamohaniya karma.
The benevolence of the benefactor should be remembered forever, at every moment. Among them how can the benevolence of that benefactor who has been responsible for the attainment of soul-state, be ever forgotten? The jiva suffered the sorrows of the infinite worldly life because its soul-state had not awakened. Sadguru is the one who brought an end to these infinite sorrows. But several jivas tend to forget the benevolence of such benevolent Gurudev and being jealous of him, become their opponents.
What did Goshala do? He burned in the fire of jealousy that raged in his heart on seeing the Prabhu's growing impact after attaining Kevaljnana and the propitiation of the Prabhu by the Devendras; the same Prabhu whose proximity had awakened in him many powers. How he went round advertising canards about the Prabhu, just to prove that he was in no way inferior to Him! In the same way, he did not hesitate in declaring himself an
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