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life without Conflict
life without Conflict
for the body. People instead look for a specific flavor of ice cream. Kabir Shahib said:
"No one is your enemy; your enemy is your unnecessary materialism...
"Rid yourself of all your needs for unnecessary things, and then you are free to roam about."
Running after unnecessary things in itself is your real enemy.
What are the necessities of this body? If you ask for water for a bath, it is a necessity. The body requires pure ghee and milk, but instead you stuff it with garbage. What good is all the junk food? What do people use to wash their hair? They use shampoo, it looks just like water and soap.
These 'sacks of intellect' (Dada referring to people) have discovered things that are not necessary and because of that one's inner happiness has diminished. The Lord had said it is acceptable if there is a difference of five to ten percent between their inner happiness and external happiness, but here we have a difference of ninety percent and that will not do. This big a difference is unnecessary and will eventually kill you. But you will have to suffer in the process. Today so many necessities have been created.
People get worried if the shops were to close for an hour. If you ask them what they need and why they worry, they will say they want some ice cream and cigarettes. Is this not increasing one's dependency on unnecessary things? It is because people do not have internal happiness that they go searching for it in material things. Whatever internal happiness there once was, is now gone. Do not destroy your inner happiness. People have squandered away this inner happiness,
so how can it express? Which is better, to live a natural life or a pretentious one? Youngsters imitate each other. Why should we imitate others? We should be ourselves; people from other countries should imitate us. But a few hippies came to our country and we now imitate them. How can you call this living?
People complain when there is a shortage of refined sugar and brown sugar. Why must you complain about food? As long as you have a stomach, you will manage to find food to eat. You will find enough food to satisfy each tooth. What kind of teeth do you have? There are teeth for tearing, cutting and chewing; nature provides you with everything. And how wonderful are your eyes? Could you find such eyes even if you paid millions of dollars? No, you could not. Some people complain even when they have a million dollars. They do not realize the worth of all the precious things that nature has given them. A person can be content if he simply learned to value just his eyes.
Your own teeth will let you down some day. You give this body food and drink and yet it dies. Death is nature's act of confiscation and repossession. When you die, you will leave everything behind except the entanglements (karmic causes) you created with family, clients, and business associates. God has cautioned, 'You mortals! Understand the reality. The possibility of another human birth is extremely rare.
The art of living cannot be found in the current era of this time cycle. Leave aside the path to liberation, but should one not know how to live life?
One Must Understand The Beneficial Path I have a constant awareness of worldly interactions.
