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BRAHMACHARYA
best of your ability. Just because you are not able practice two of their commandments, does that mean you discard them all? What do you think? If you are able to abide by two of their commandments, it is still more than enough.
It is equally important for people to receive a high level of relative religion (vyavahaar dharma). This is the code of conduct for life's daily interactions. This is the art of living. You cannot learn this art through penance, fasting or renunciation of the worldly life. Do fasting if you develop problems with indigestion.
The one who learns the art of living acquires the whole vyavahar dharma, but the real religion, the knowledge of the Self (Atma dharma, nischaya dharma) will be attained by the one who comes into this world with prior spiritual development. In the Akram path (the short-cut, step-less path to Self-realization), one attains the Self through the grace of the Gnani Purush. The Gnani Purush has the capacity to grace one with both infinite knowledge and infinite worldly wisdom; both are so wonderful that they abolish all kinds of miseries.
Understanding That Leads to Suffering In Life
This Gnan is such that it repairs and corrects, and people are such that they ruin and make wrong of everything that is right. They do so because they have the wrong understanding; otherwise there is no suffering in India whatsoever. All suffering is due to lack of right understanding. People blame the government or God for their suffering. Alas people have only learnt to disgrace and defame others. If a person accidentally ingests poison, will the poison spare him?
life without Conflict
Questioner: No it would not.
Dadashri: Why not? He drank it accidentally. Since he did not drink it on purpose, will the poison not let him escape?
Questioner: No, he cannot escape the effect of the
poison.
Dadashri: So who kills him? It is the poison that kills him, not God. God does not give suffering or anything else, whatever is done, is done through the body complex (pudgal). It is the body complex that gives pain and unhappiness. Is poison also not a body complex? Do we not experience its effect? People of the current time cycle are really the product of their negative tendencies from their past lives. People of the era of previous time cycle used to make do without food and clothes, but people of today, despite having everything, create nothing but conflict. If a man has outstanding taxes, he fears the tax officer and in turn his wife fears him because he mistreats her because of the stress.
A person, who has all the four necessities of life and yet creates conflict, is nothing but a fool. Does he or does he not get food on time? It does not matter whether the food is cooked in oil or not, but at least he gets his food on time, does he not? Does he also not get his cup of tea on time; whether it is once or twice a day, does he not at least get tea or something to drink? Does he not have clothes to wear? Does he not have a roof over his head? He should be thankful for all this, especially on cold winters days! So when people complain, in spite of having these basic four necessities, they should be locked up in prison! In spite of having all the four necessities, if a person is still unhappy, then he should get
