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a person who has compassion, kindness and patience will hit
people if the gunas vatta, pitta and kapha were to go bad and
become imbalanced. These are all attributes of the prakruti
(non-self). With such qualities one can bind new merit karma
while enjoying the fruits of past merit karma (punyanubandhi
punya). With it one may encounter a Gnani Purush in some
future life and attain liberation. But you cannot depend on such
qualities because you never know when they may change. These
are not the attributes of the pure Soul; they are prakrut qualities.
They are not the qualities of the Self; they are qualities of the
non-Self. ‘We’ call them ‘tops’ i.e. the spinning toys. The entire
world is dictated by these prakrut gunas. It is like a top. Prakruti
makes you do samayik and pratikraman and you claim that you
did them. If you were to ask the Lord, He will tell you, “You are
not the doer of anything.” When your legs hurt you will say,
“What can I do? I am not able to do samayik.” If you were truly
the doer, you would be able to do anything. Prakruti makes you
do things and you claim, ‘I did it’ and that is why you sow seeds
for your next life. Circumstances occur due to maturation of
your karmas but you falsely take credit of doer-ship in it. How
can you call someone a sadhu (an ascetic) when he enjoys the
sweet taste of the doer-ship in what unfolds as an effect?
Only a Self-realized person can liberate you
Are all these not mistakes? You have never investigated
them, have you?
Questioner : Dada we are trying to get out of them but
we keep getting in deeper.
Dadashri : No, do not make such attempts. What would
happen if you were supposed to dig a hole here but dug a hole
somewhere else? On the contrary, you incur a liability for your
mistake. This is what people do; they make wrong attempts.
Instead you should go to a person who is already liberated, so
that he can help you attain liberation too. How can a drowning