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wise. Do birds and animals not have women and children? Do they have to get them married? Only humans feel the need to have a wife and children; only the humans are preoccupied with accumulating wealth and getting their children married. You pitiful ones! Why do not you work towards Self-realization instead? There is nothing else worth working for. Whatever you have done so far is worth nothing but crying over in sorrow. Who teaches the young children to steal? It is all in a seed (brought with them from their past life). Why is every leaf of a Neem tree so bitter? It is because the bitterness lies in the seed of the Neem tree. Only human beings are so unhappy, but they are not to be blamed. It was only up until the fourth era of the current time cycle, that there was any happiness. We are now in the fifth era of the time cycle, in which equanimity is unattainable even when one undergoes tremendous penance. Therefore it is a mistake to look for happiness and harmony in this era of the time cycle.
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[2] Complete Benevolence
Two Most Important Activities in Life
What is the purpose of the human life? It is to free yourself completely from the bondage of rebirths. It is to become Absolute, the pure Self. But if you have not acquired the knowledge of the pure Self, then live your life for others. It is only for these two tasks that one gets a birth in India. Does anyone follow these two goals? Instead people have discovered an art of going from a human form into the animal form by resorting to corruption and deviousness!
Benevolence Creates Merit Karma
Until you achieve liberation, only your merit karma
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(punya) works as your friend and your demerit karma (paap) as your enemy. Now you have to decide whether you want a friend or a foe and then ask me how you can encounter a circumstance of a friend or a foe. If someone likes the foe of demerit karma, then I will tell him that he can do whatever he pleases, he can live at the expense of others and go wherever he wants and that he can worry about the consequences later. If however he wants a friend in merit karma, then I will tell him to learn from the trees. Do the trees enjoy their own fruits? Does a rosebush enjoy its own flowers? Not even a little? Maybe when we are not looking? Do they eat their own fruits?
Questioner: No.
Dadashri: These trees are here to serve and give fruits to humans. Now how do the trees benefit from that? They progress into a higher life form. The human beings will also progress higher through their help. For example, if you eat a mango, what does the mango tree lose and what do you gain from it? You get pleasure from eating a mango. And because of your happiness there is an improvement in your tendencies and as a result you acquire say, a spiritual earning equivalent to a hundred merit points. From these one hundred points, five percent will go to the mango tree for the fruit it gave you and the remaining ninety-five will remain with you for your progress. Therefore when you share with others, they come to a higher level and at the same time you do not fall. You too will progress to a higher level. So the trees are really telling you to enjoy all that is theirs.
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So if you like this worldly life, if you desire worldly things and can afford to live in this world, practice benevolence through yoga and upyoga. Yoga is that done
