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life after life.” This has been the basis of the world’s existence.
Entanglements are created by continuous agitation. When a
person harbors and supports his own vengeful attitude, it returns
life after life and instead of solving entanglements, he creates five
new ones.
People believe they will become free by worshipping the
God above. But there is no one up there. You are your own
superior, you are your own protector and you are your own
destroyer. You are whole and sole responsible for yourself. No
one else interferes in all this. Whether you have a superior or an
underhand, it is entirely due to your own mistakes. Will you not
have to destroy your mistakes?
If you do not understand that you yourself are at fault,
then you sow seeds for another life. ‘We’ caution you about this
but what can anyone do if you do not wake up and listen? If you
are not at fault then there will be no interference within. If you
see the world with a pure vision, then it will appear pure. And
if you look at it with a crooked vision, then it will appear crooked.
Primarily therefore, you need to make your vision pure.
Why have attachments towards temporary
attributes ?
Questioner : Dada, we are supposed to see people’s
positive attributes and not their faults, is that correct?
Dadashri : No, neither. What you see is all attributes of
the non-self (prakrut gunas) and none of them are permanent.
A benevolent person may have that quality for fifty years, but
that quality will change if he were to become delirious. The
qualities or attributes (guna) remain because of the three
prakruti traits of vatta, pitta and kapha. If the three become
imbalanced, a person would become delirious. One has
accumulated such qualities for countless lives. Nevertheless, you
should not mix kashays with this. When one accumulates good
prakrut qualities, he will one day be able to attain the Soul. Even