Aptavani-1
261
beings are just like these bubbles. They come into being through
circumstances.
Circumstances may be the same but they may be agreeable
to one person and disagreeable to another. Such is the case
with every circumstance. One person may like them while another
may not. You may accumulate things you like, but there is no
telling when the separation may come. You have no idea when
the accumulation of agreeable circumstances will dissociate.
Moreover circumstances come in succession, one after another
but succeeding circumstances do not come before the dissociation
of the previous one.
There are two types of circumstances : agreeable ones
and disagreeable ones. Disagreeable circumstances are the fruit
or effect of demerit karma (adharma), and agreeable
circumstances are the fruit of merit karma (dharma). The fruit of
the state of the Self (svadharma) is liberation.
Sorrow is at the root of all circumstances, whether
agreeable or disagreeable. One feels sorrow as agreeable
circumstances come to an end and sorrow when disagreeable
ones come together. And under the laws of nature, both are
subject to association-dissociation and dissociation-association.
The Lord says there are good circumstances and bad
circumstances. People label it a bad circumstance when a person
starts to think and behave negatively. If someone gets arrested,
it is a bad circumstance and if a person attends satsang, it is
considered a good circumstance. In this world association or
integration of circumstances is puran (input) and dissociation or
disintegration of circumstances is galan (output). There is nothing
else besides these.
It is as difficult to dissociate or disintegrate, as it is to
associate or integrate.