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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