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What are the characteristics of drashti-raag? Within it
there is not a single attribute of vitaragta (absolutism, the state
of enlightened world view). A man with drashti-raag will not
understand what I say, whereas even the most uneducated
person will.
Drashti-raag is the raag of all raags (attachment of all
attachments). Only when it is destroyed from its roots can one
understand the reality.
Animosity And Vengeance
Questioner : If a snake comes to bite me, should I not
kill it?
Dadashri : Why not move away from it? What do you
do if a train is approaching you head on? You have to move
aside. Similarly, move away from the snake.
Snake is a five-sensed life form. If you kill it, it will take
its revenge from you in the next life. It will know that you hurt
it without any cause and in your next life it will take revenge.
The entire world exists because of revenge. Even an ant
feels that had it the strength and the power, it would harass
you. Just switch on the light and see how the bed bugs run
away frightened for their life. The bedbugs too fear that you
will kill them but at the same time they also wonder why you
kill them when all they do is eat their own food? The blood
they suck from you is because of an account from your past
life.
There are two kinds of bondage : one based on love and
other on vengeance. There is reverence in the bondage of love,
but the bondage of vengeance is what keeps the world bound.
Love is sticky by nature and may dry up some day but vengeance
only grows, increasing day by day.