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Aptavani-1
Non-contradictory Dependence
You cannot just sit around claiming that everything is
destined (prarabdha). If you do, then you become completely
idle. The mind will become restless with such a dependency. If
this dependency on destiny is correct, then you should not have
any worries, but in fact you are a factory of worries. Therefore
even that dependency is lame. It is not real. It is not scientific.
People in India are miserable and suffer because they have
been given the support of such a dependency. That is why their
progress is obstructed. My search, over a million life times, has
brought me to the scientific fact that both destiny and independent
effort are lame supports. The only real support is vyavasthit.
What is vyavasthit? It is that which happens only through
scientific circumstantial evidences. That is called vyavasthit. The
knowledge of vyavasthit renders total satisfaction in every
situation. I will give you a simple example. If this glass in your
hand begins to slip out of your hand and you make every effort
to save it and it still breaks. Who broke the glass? You had no
intention of breaking it; on the contrary you made all efforts to
save it. Then, did the glass wish to break? No, that cannot be
so. No one else was present to break it either, so who broke
it? It was Vyavasthit; vyavasthit works under exact principles of
natural laws. It is not haphazard. If the glass were not to break
according to the principles of vyavasthit, then how would these
glass factories remain in business? Vyavasthit has to look at
your interest and also the interest of the glass factory and the
livelihood of thousands of its workers. Therefore the glass will
break according to this law and no one will be able to prevent
it from breaking. So many foolish people get agitated and restless
when things break. If a servant is serving tea to some guests
and breaks a cup, his master becomes furious from within. All
he can think of is how he will slap the servant a few times as
soon as his guests leave. And some people even do this. But