unfolding according to their own karma from their past life. Furthermore, whatever is unfolding is precisely the effect of their own karmic accounts that they themselves created. So in all this, if one seeks worldly justice or does not accept nature’ s account, how will he escape the beating due to him in doing so?
For the one who understands and accepts‘ this is my fault’; for the one who has arrived at this stage, there is‘ justice’ and his faults are abolished. But the one who says,“ This is not my fault”, for him there is the worldly life to make him understand!
� The common understanding of pain and pleasure that people have is in fact not actual pain or pleasure. The Lord says that it is really the experience of pain( ashata vedaniya) and experience of pleasure( shata vedaniya) of karma. These events are for a fixed period of time and by nature are temporary; these are all circumstances and all circumstances are temporary. Now as per general understanding, if these karmas of suffering are believed to be long lasting and given greater importance, then one will experience greater suffering. All pleasures and pains of worldly interaction have an end. Only the bliss of the Self is infinite and eternal and that is the only thing one needs to attain.
Through the common understanding, the illusionary valuation of worldly pleasures and pains create very grave and dangerous bondages of karma. Amidst such situations, Dadashri has given the world, very simple, natural and yet exact‘ knowledge-vision’ of the Self. Once this is understood in exactness, it makes one free from the effect of all pleasures or pains of everyday worldly life.
�‘ To be overcome by mental and physical fatigue( kantado) is a state similar to sleeping on a bed of thorns.’
- Dadashri
Now, who is the fortunate one who has not experienced
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