Aptavani-1
269
which then allows you to overcome any circumstance or obstacle
that comes your way.
The Circumstance Of The non-Self
Anything that comes your way is as a result of your
prakruti (nature, inherent characteristic traits). Everything you
receive is in accordance to your prakruti. The type and taste of
tea, of vegetables and food you get, all come to you in keeping
with your prakruti. But your internal anger, pride, attachment
and greed interfere with all of this. Greed meddles in this by
prompting you to accumulate and hoard things. This leads you
to be deceitful and thereby meddle even more with grave
consequences. There is no need to be meddlesome. Everything
will be provided for you, in accordance with your prakruti,
upon demand from within. What would happen if people started
to worry whether the sun would rise the next day? Mooah!
Everything is out there for you if you know how to enjoy it. The
sun, the moon, the stars, air, water is all for you.
Suppose you get a chance to spend ten days at a hill-
station which appeals to your prakruti (relative self), then you’ll
wish you had ten more days to stay there, but you will find it
difficult to spend even two days at some other location. All that
you eat and drink comes to you in accordance with your prakruti.
But you possibly may not get enough to satisfy your greed.
Even the renunciation and fasting you do is in accordance to
your prakruti and yet your ego claims ‘I did it’. Whether you
are able to renounce or not, it is all in accordance to your
prakruti.
A well to do businessman in Baroda was fed up with his
head strong and nagging wife. He felt he would be better off
becoming an ascetic; at least people will give him respect and
revere him. So he ran away from home and became a sadhu.