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Use of the authority of the non-self leads to worries.
What has been acquired in the foreign department (non-self)
will remain in the foreign realm. You have acquired a wealth of
cars, bungalow, factories, wife and children, which will have to
be left behind when you leave. At the final station no power can
save you. You will be allowed to carry forward only your merit
and de-merit karma. In other words wh atever wrong you do
here will carry forward with you. The wealth you acquire through
your wrong doings will be left behind but your liability for those
actions will be carried forward. You will acquire a new body
based on your actions and you will have to start all over again
to repay your past life’s debts. So you unfortunate souls! Better
shape up from the start. There is so much bliss in your own
homeland but you haven’t seen it!
When, even the hair on your head does not remain loyal
to you, what else will? People keep grooming their hair with
their hands all day long. But would they still like to run their
fingers through the hair when it is cut off?
Worrying is an ego. Why does this child not have any
worries? It is because he knows that he does not run everything
and neither is he bothered about who does. People worry by
merely comparing themselves with their neighbors. The neighbors
have a car and we do not. The foolish man! How much does
he need for his livelihood? Decide just once what your
requirements are. For example, you need adequate food and
water, a house to live in and enough money to run that household.
This much you are bound to get. But you become jealous and
disturbed if you come to know that your neighbor has a bank
balance of ten thousand. This is how suffering starts. Foolish
people, they invite their miseries themselves.
A landlord came to me and asked me how much a person
needs to live life. He told me that he had a thousand acres of